Justices

• Centenas se reuniram na Suprema Corte dos EUA em 29 de abril de 2026 para os argumentos sobre o Status de Proteção Temporária (TPS) para haitianos e sírios, com os juízes examinando a autoridade do Presidente Trump para encerrar o programa. • O tribunal pareceu cético em relação ao amplo poder executivo para revogar anistias de deportação, de acordo com relatos da audiência. • Uma decisão poderá impactar milhares de pessoas que enfrentam a deportação e testar os limites das ações executivas de imigração antes das eleições de meio de mandato.

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...