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The judge presiding over the arrest of activist Mahmoud Khalil is allowing the case to be transferred to New Jersey’s district court.
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, who serves in the Southern District of New York, wrote in the order that the Khalil’s allegations against the government are “serious” and “warrant careful review.”
“But before the Court may review Khalil’s allegations and arguments, it must confront a threshold question: whether it is the proper tribunal to even consider Khalil’s Petition,” the judge wrote.
The judge said that his decision stemmed from “the undisputed fact that, at 4:40 a.m. on March 9, 2025, when Khalil’s lawyer filed the Petition on his behalf, he was detained in New Jersey.”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a U.S. government-funded news outlet in operation for more than 70 years, is suing the Trump administration to block the termination of its federal grant.
In a news release accompanying its filing yesterday, the outlet said the White House had denied it funds appropriated by Congress, claiming the move was in violation of the U.S. Constitution, “which vests Congress with exclusive power over federal spending.”
The U.S. Agency for Global Media, a government agency that runs Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America and other editorially independent news outlets that broadcast in dozens of languages around the world and are known for their reporting on human rights, was designated for elimination in an executive order Trump signed Friday. The move was criticized as a win for authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia at a time when they are trying to expand their own global media presence.
“This is not the time to cede terrain to the propaganda and censorship of America’s adversaries,” said Stephen Capus, president and chief executive of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. “We believe the law is on our side and that the celebration of our demise by despots around the world is premature.”
Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a high-stakes phone call aimed at ending the war in Ukraine in what could be an initial step toward the White House’s goal of a ceasefire. Hours after agreeing to a partial ceasefire, Russia launched new attacks on targets inside Ukraine, including a hospital and a railway power station. NBC’s Richard Engel reports for “TODAY.”
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., is set to hold a town hall tonight, bucking advice from the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect GOP members, not to hold in-person town halls.
Town hall attendees have recently berated Republicans for their support of budget cuts and DOGE initiatives like federal workforce layoffs.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has also encouraged his party members to hold telephone town halls and small group discussions rather than open town halls, where Republicans lawmakers have faced jeering crowds.Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is scheduled to hold a tele-town hall on Tuesday.
Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., said during a town hall last night that it may be time for Democrats to find new Senate leadership. He is the latest Democrat to cast doubt on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership after the New York Democrat allowed a GOP-led funding bill to move forward.
“I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he’s had a great, long-standing career,” Ivey said. “He’s done a lot of great things, but I’m afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to pick new leadership as we move forward.”
Ivey also argued that Schumer “did not” meet the moment during the fight over the temporary funding bill, which ultimately passed Congress and was signed into law.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., voiced support for Schumer yesterday, although Pelosi added that she wouldn’t have taken the same action as Schumer.
“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” she said at a news conference. “I think that’s what happened the other day.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he would speak with Trump today after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday.
“Putin’s words are very, very different from reality,” Zelenskyy said during a news conference, during which he detailed overnight Russian attacks.
The White House said yesterday that during the phone call between Trump and Putin, “the leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace.”
The Kremlin told Russian state media that Putin agreed to stop strikes on energy infrastructure for 30 days. But the agreement hasn’t yet been put into action, as Zelenskyy explained that energy facilities were hit in Russian strikes last night.
“When Putin said that he was supposedly giving the order to stop the strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector, there were 200 drones overnight, including on energy facilities,” Zelenskyy said at the news conference.
A meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump at the White House devolved into a public confrontation as Trump and Vice President JD Vance publicly berated the Ukraine’s leader for not being more thankful to the U.S. for the aid it has provided to his country.
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A federal judge has given the Trump administration until noon today to submit a sealed filing answering his questions about the timing of deportation flights that he had ordered to turn around over the weekend.
Flights carrying alleged gang members deported under a rarely invoked wartime act known as the Alien Enemies Act later arrived in El Salvador, despite the judge’s order. The government has said that two planes of deportees left U.S. airspace before the U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s written order and argued that the judge lacked jurisdiction in the case.
The Justice Department refused to answer certain questions from Boasberg yesterday, prompting the judge’s latest request for more information under a deadline.
Earlier this week, Boasberg said that if the government decided not to provide more details about the flights, “it must support such position, including with classified authorities if necessary.” The judge then said the government could file the information under seal if warranted, prompting the Justice Department to push back on the suggestion.
As a federal judge presses Trump’s administration over whether it violated an order halting deportations, in a growing clash between the presidency and the judicial branch, more American voters are saying they think the executive branch and the courts have too much power, according to a new NBC News poll.
What’s notable, though, is that the change over the last six years has been driven by Democratic-leaning voters, who have been frustrated at different times by both Trump’s expansive policy agenda this year and the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The new poll was conducted March 7-11, before Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who issued an order blocking the deportation of Venezuelan migrants. And as Trump and allies grow more vocal about policies of his that are getting blocked by courts, it’s possible that there could be significant shifts in how voters weigh the power of the courts and the executive branch.
The NBC News poll found that 43% of registered voters believed the president and the executive branch have too much power, while 39% said the branch’s power is about right and 6% said it has too little power.
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