Justices

• Ratusan orang berkumpul di Mahkamah Agung AS pada 29 April 2026 untuk mengikuti persidangan mengenai Temporary Protected Status (TPS) bagi warga Haiti dan Suriah, di mana para hakim agung meneliti otoritas Presiden Trump untuk mengakhiri program tersebut. • Para hakim tampak skeptis terhadap kekuasaan eksekutif yang luas untuk mencabut amnesti deportasi, menurut laporan dari persidangan tersebut. • Keputusan ini dapat berdampak pada ribuan orang yang menghadapi deportasi dan menguji batasan tindakan eksekutif imigrasi menjelang pemilihan paruh waktu (midterms).

Liberal judge attacks emergency-docket rulings designed to benefit president as ‘scratch-paper musings’The supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow”.Jackson, the court’s newest justice, delivered a lengthy assessment of roughly two dozen court orders issued last year that allowed Donald Trump to put in place controversial policies on immigration, steep federal funding cuts and other topics, after lower courts found they were probably illegal. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequalityCountries are being “held hostage” by their reliance on fossil fuels, a former UN climate chief has warned, describing the health impacts of climate change as “the mother of all injustices”.Christiana Figueres, an international climate negotiator who helped deliver the Paris agreement signed in 2016, made the comments as she was announced on Wednesday as co-chair of a Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality. Continue reading...