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Il presidente della Corte difende l'imparzialità del tribunale dopo le decisioni sull'aborto, l'immunità presidenziale e i diritti di voto. Il presidente della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti, John Roberts, ha insistito che i giudici della Corte Suprema non siano "attori politici" in mezzo all'indignazione per la recente decisione che mina il Voting Right Act e altre mosse che hanno avvantaggiato Donald Trump e i suoi alleati. "Credo che, a un livello molto basilare, le persone pensino che stiamo prendendo decisioni politiche, che stiamo dicendo che secondo noi le cose dovrebbero andare così, invece di attenerci a quanto previsto dalla legge", ha dichiarato Roberts mercoledì durante una conferenza per giudici e avvocati a Hershey, in Pennsylvania, secondo l'Associated Press. "Penso che ci vedano come puri attori politici, il che non credo sia una comprensione accurata di ciò che facciamo". Continua a leggere...

• Hundreds gathered at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, for arguments on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians, with justices scrutinizing President Trump's authority to end the program. • The bench appeared skeptical of broad executive power to revoke deportation amnesties, per reports from the hearing. • A ruling could impact thousands facing deportation and test limits on immigration executive actions ahead of 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...