Texas Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. #YNWAhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lxupk2jwrk2iA federal judge has said Trump's National Guard deployment in LA was illegal. What could it mean for potential deployments in other cities? "t’s a clear shot across the bow to President Trump." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0902/trump-national-guard-la-judge-breyer-posse-comitatus02 Sep 2025 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxupk2jwrk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lukpw4gkzs2bIs this the year the Supreme Court began its emergency era? "We are seeing #SCOTUS trying to adapt its procedures to keep up with the 21st century," says @williambaude.bsky.social. "I don’t think it’s unfair to say the court is still figuring that out." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0721/supreme-court-trump-administration-emergency-docket22 Jul 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukpw4gkzs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lsjbx3oikc2dOn the 10-year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the historic #SCOTUS ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Cameron Pugh @csmonitor.bsky.social talked with Jim Obergefell about his journey and where gay rights stand today. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0625/supreme-court-jim-obergefell-same-sex-marriage26 Jun 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjbx3oikc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lrazppvle22a"Lawful but awful." Trump's mobilization of the National Guard (and active-duty Marines) in L.A. is unprecedented, but not necessarily unlawful. But is the president helping put out a fire – or pouring on gasoline? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0610/california-marines-national-guard-trump-newsom10 Jun 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrazppvle22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lqwtpgdi2s2aStarting on Monday, the U.S. will restrict -- with some exceptions -- nationals of 12 countries from entering the country. What to know about the new travel ban (including what it could mean for the World Cup and Olympics): https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0605/trump-travel-ban-12-countries06 Jun 2025 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqwtpgdi2s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lqsl6lja6c2aA MAGA judiciary? Trump rift with Federalist Society signals a search for loyal judges. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0604/trump-leonard-leo-federalist-society04 Jun 2025 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqsl6lja6c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lqczuok6ks2pAs an institution, Congress has done little to check the executive branch in Trump's second term. Courts have been the main impediment instead. Now, Congress is making a move. It's "trying to ease the way for the administration to ignore court orders." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0528/congress-court-contempt-big-beautiful-bill29 May 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqczuok6ks2phttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lptw6oav722pA deadlocked Supreme Court rejects religious charter schools – for now. "I think #SCOTUS is drawing a line in terms of where it’s going to go with extending aid." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0522/supreme-court-oklahoma-religious-charter-schools-church-state-wall23 May 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptw6oav722phttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lpts3bslok2p“You know the government is going to ship your client out.” While neither unlawful nor unprecedented, the Trump admin's rapid relocation of immigrant detainees is a ramp-up of a familiar tactic and a possible a preview of the future. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0522/trump-deportations-habeas-corpus-rumeysa-ozturk23 May 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpts3bslok2phttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lprvtjqtd22pThree stops in 24 hours. Virginia, to Louisiana, to Texas in four days. A spike in sudden transfers to a detention center in north Texas--including one apparently violating a court order. A look at the geography of Trump deportations: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0522/trump-deportations-habeas-corpus-rumeysa-ozturk22 May 2025 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprvtjqtd22phttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lprbi7ihqc2zPoignant grafs at the start of this @cameronjoseph.bsky.social interview with Ben Crump, the lawyer for George Floyd's family, on the five-year anniversary of his death. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0521/george-floyd-ben-crump-black-lives-matter-police22 May 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprbi7ihqc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lpaibsyd4s2zTakeaways from today's #SCOTUS argument on birthright citizenship. The justices mostly agreed nationwide injunctions have problems. But what could replace them? And would the Trump administration follow what a lower court tells it to do? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0515/supreme-court-14th-amendment-birthright-citizenship15 May 2025 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpaibsyd4s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lp7kqgdcgc2qToday's #SCOTUS oral argument is only partly about birthright citizenship, but it offers a preview of a country in which Trump's birthright citizenship order is in place. @sarahmatusek.bsky.social and I examined what that could look like: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0513/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment15 May 2025 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp7kqgdcgc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lp2nbkj4is2qChaos and drama, but little substance. From "five men and a phone" at CFPB, to sweeping cuts to a little-known foreign aid agency, we evaluate 100(ish) days of DOGE. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0512/doge-elon-musk-federal-government13 May 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2nbkj4is2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lor6u5xncc2qPope Leo XIV "wants us to open up to each other." He's "not going to look for a fight with the Trump administration." https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Faith-Religion/2025/0508/pope-leo-xiv-francis-catholics-immigration-social-justice09 May 2025 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lor6u5xncc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lo4fceolx22eAs courts try to ensure the Trump administration follows their orders, some judges are turning to contempt of court proceedings. The DOJ says it will lead to a "constitutional collision." Legal experts say "we should be wary" of them. Here's what to know: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0430/trump-court-contempt-consequence01 May 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4fceolx22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lnzznegizs2e#SCOTUS is hearing a case today that could transform public education in the U.S. Charter schools, and some conservatives, are hoping they don't. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0429/supreme-court-oklahoma-charter-case-religious-liberty-church-state-wall30 Apr 2025 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnzznegizs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3ln4hyx6vok2zThe Trump administration has shifted from equivocating in court to objecting to follow court orders. Judges are now exploring contempt proceedings. Underlying it all: an argument "shocking [to] the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans still hold dear." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0418/garcia-trump-supreme-deportation18 Apr 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4hyx6vok2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3llysy577m222Lawyers at white-shoe law firms aren't the most sympathetic targets of Donald Trump's ire. But a fearful, compliant legal industry could open the door to more serious abuses of rights and freedoms. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0403/trump-law-firms-right-to-counsel04 Apr 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3llysy577m222https://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3llvxxng7gk2x"I’m shocked and dismayed by how brittle these institutions have turned out to be." Law firms are perhaps the institution best placed to fight for its rights against the Trump administration. Why are so many settling? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0403/trump-law-firms-right-to-counsel03 Apr 2025 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvxxng7gk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3llhcbgk7e22x"It sure feels like the White House and its allies are feeling for soft points" in court orders, says @greggnunziata.bsky.social. But at the same time, they're working to "delegitimize the judiciary." So...constitutional crisis? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0327/constitutional-crisis-trump-john-roberts-james-boasberg28 Mar 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3llhcbgk7e22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lklgdczi322iInvoking an 18th century wartime law, the Trump administration deported around 100 Venezuelan migrants over the weekend -- perhaps in defiance of a court order. @sarahmatusek.bsky.social recaps a chaotic weekend. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0317/trump-deportation-judge-venezuela-el-salvador17 Mar 2025 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lklgdczi322ihttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3lk7dqa5pss2iJudges been learning how to identify suspicious packages and how to drive to work along different routes. Violent threats have doubled, and now some are facing impeachment. Chief Justice Roberts recently wrote that such intimidation "undermines our Republic." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0312/judge-safety-threat-impeach12 Mar 2025 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk7dqa5pss2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/henrygass.bsky.social/post/3limwnxfh222nThe wave of DOJ resignations -- twice the number of the "Saturday Night Massacre" during Watergate -- boils down to one Emil Bove statement. "You [don't] uphold the Constitution by disobeying direct orders implementing the policy of a duly elected President." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0220/eric-adams-justice-department-trump-bove20 Feb 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:6qo2pr2vcfdqambnx4r5mdvg/app.bsky.feed.post/3limwnxfh222n