#supreme-court-appeal

#supreme-court-appeal

Under the first Trump administration, people seeking asylum at the United States-Mexico border would typically be met by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who would turn them away. While some cases of asylum seekers being turned away at the San Ysidro border crossing occurred in 2016, the turn-back policies, called "metering" by the government, weren't written and widely instituted until the first Trump administration. This turn-back policy created a humanitarian crisis at the border that impacted thousands of people seeking refuge from danger.

Paul Howard and Una McClean granted leave to appeal against judgment

In January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed his staff to stop issuing passports with an X gender marker, which had been available since 2022, and said the State Department would no longer allow passport holders to change their gender marker. Existing passports would remain valid, but new or renewed passports would not reflect the holder's gender identity. The policy was in keeping with Trump's executive order saying the federal government would recognize only male and female sexes as assigned at birth.

A White House official said in July ahead of appealing the case that the Supreme Court has previously upheld Trump's "authority to fire and remove executive officers who exercise his authority." Context: A federal judge ruled in July that it's illegal to fire Slaughter. The Trump administration had asked the court to delay the ruling during its appeal in the case. However, the appeals court ruled that presidents can only remove FTC commissioners for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office."

These tariffs apply to nearly all articles imported into the United States (and, in the case of the Reciprocal Tariffs, apply to almost all countries), impose high rates which are ever-changing and exceed those set out in the [U.S. tariff system], and are not limited in duration.