- Trump vows to obey Supreme Court order on deported Salvadoran man
President Donald Trump said on April 11 he will honor a Supreme Court order requiring the government to extract a Salvadoran citizen from his home country after the United States mistakenly deported him there. When asked about the court ruling, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back, I would do that.” “I respect the [...]
- South Carolina carries out 2nd firing squad execution after Supreme Court declines to intervene
South Carolina performed its second firing squad execution on April 11, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution earlier in the day. Inmate Mikal Mahdi was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. local time at a correctional facility in Columbia. Mahdi opted for the firing squad, instead of the other execution methods available in South Carolina—the electric chair or [...]
- Ghislaine Maxwell appeals sex-trafficking conviction to Supreme Court
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell asked the U.S. Supreme Court on April 11 to set aside her sex-trafficking convictions. In the petition, Maxwell argues that a non-prosecution agreement that prosecutors made with her partner, the late Jeffrey Epstein, should have prevented her from being prosecuted. In 2019, Epstein was indicted on multiple charges of sex trafficking [...]
- Supreme Court temporarily halts Ohio’s qualified immunity ballot initiative
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 10 issued an order temporarily preventing Ohio voters who support repealing the qualified immunity rule from gathering signatures to place the issue on a future Ohio ballot. Qualified immunity, a rule created by the courts, shields government officials, including police officers, from individual liability unless the wrongdoer violated a [...]
