Justices

• 2026年4月29日、米Supreme Courtに数百人が集まり、HaitiansおよびSyriansに対するTemporary Protected Status (TPS)を巡る口頭弁論が行われた。判事らは、同プログラムを終了させるPresident Trumpの権限を精査した。 • 審理の報告によると、裁判官団は強制送還の猶予措置を撤回する広範な行政権限に対し、懐疑的な姿勢を見せた模様である。 • 判決は、強制送還の危機にある数千人に影響を及ぼし、中間選挙を前に移民関連の行政措置の限界を試すものとなる可能性がある。

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...