Unlawful

• Een Amerikaanse handelsrechtbank heeft verklaard dat de voorgestelde tarieven van 10% op wereldwijde importen door president Trump onrechtmatig zijn, wat een aanzienlijke juridische tegenslag vormt voor zijn handelsagenda. • De uitspraak, die in de afgelopen 2 uur is gedaan, volgt op bezwaren van importeurs die aanvoeren dat de tarieven de presidentiële bevoegdheid onder bestaande handelswetten overschrijden. • Deze beslissing is van belang omdat het de strategie van Trump verstoort om druk uit te oefenen op handelspartners zoals China en de EU te midden van escalerende spanningen over de Straat van Hormuz.

Arrest of asylum seeker Elvis Joel TE and his two-year-old, without a warrant, had sparked widespread outrageA federal judge ruled on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must release a Minneapolis man and asylum seeker who has been unlawfully detained for 50 days.The man, identified as Elvis Joel TE in court filings, was arrested on 22 January at the height of ICE’s aggressive raids in Minneapolis. The case sparked widespread outrage as Elvis TE was detained with his two-year-old daughter while they were returning home from the store, and ICE quickly flew both of them to Texas despite a court order barring their transfer out of Minnesota. Continue reading...

Officials sent out repayment letters to about 1,400 people relying on discredited guidance that had been scrappedUnpaid carers have been issued with demands to repay thousands of pounds for allegedly breaking benefit rules even though officials knew the decisions were based on unlawful and discredited policy guidance.About 1,400 carers are understood to have been sent letters by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in January asking them to repay sums relating to breaches of carer’s allowance earnings rules that had been scrapped four months previously. Continue reading...