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Trump administration, the re-introduced extreme vetting policies significantly impact U.S. Green Card holders, increasing scrutiny at the border, prolonging processing times, and raising the risk of residency challenges.

Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed April 16 for hearing a batch of pleas challenging the appointment of the chief election commissioner (CEC) and election commissioners (EC) under the 2023 law. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh fixed the date for hearing the pleas after advocate Prashant Bhushan said the matter is listed at number 38 and is not likely to reach for hearing during the course of the day. Bhushan requested an urgent hearing of the matter, saying it goes to the root of democracy and the issue is covered by the 2023 Constitution bench verdict. Justice Kant said the court understands all these arguments but a lot of urgent matters are listed every day. «We will fix it on April 16, so that the matter is finally heard,» the bench said. Bhushan, appearing for petitioner NGO Association for Democratic Reforms, said the matter involved a short legal question — whether the 2023 Constitution bench verdict should be followed for the appointment of the CEC and ECs through a panel involving the prime minister, Leader of Opposition and the Chief Justice of India or the 2023 law, which excludes the CJI from the panel.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at 10 locations in Jammu as part of an ongoing investigation into cases related to infiltration. Meanwhile, The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a reply opposing Baramulla MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh's plea before the Delhi High Court. NIA has prayed to the High Court to reject the plea as it is not maintainable. MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, better known as Engineer Rashid, has sought interim bail or interim custody parole to attend the ongoing Parliament sessions. The plea is listed for hearing tomorrow beside the High Court. NIA had filed an affidavit pursuant to the order passed by the Division bench headed by Justice Prathiba M Singh on March 12. It is stated that the present appeal under Section 21 of the NIA Act, 2008 of Appellant accused Abdul Rashid Sheikh, seeking interim bail or alternate custody parole to attend the Fourth Parliamentary Winter Session of Lok Sabha from March 11 — April 4, be rejected as not maintainable and also liable to be dismissed, on merits. The NIA has also stated that the appellant's mere status as a Parliamentarian does not entitle him to claim any exception from the effect of being in judicial custody.

legal challenges and debates over its impact.

Chief Justice John Roberts pushed back against calls to impeach federal judges over their decisions, emphasizing the importance of judicial independence. His remarks come amid increasing political pressure on judges following controversial rulings on immigration and other hot-button issues.

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively's legal battle continues, with Justin Baldoni's lawyer indicating that a settlement before the 2026 trial is unlikely and the courtroom drama is far from over. Blake Lively obtained a confidentiality order, whereas Baldoni insists on proving his innocence in court. Both sides remain firm, and tensions rise as the case progresses, as per reports.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that a federal judge who tried to stop his deportation plans should be impeached, escalating his conflict with a judiciary that's been one of the few restraints on his administration's aggressive plans. Trump has routinely criticized judges, especially as they limit his efforts to expand presidential power and impose his sweeping agenda on the federal government. But his call for impeachment — a rare step that is usually taken only in cases of grave ethical or criminal misconduct — represents an intensifying clash between the judicial and executive branches. The Republican president described U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington, as an unelected «troublemaker and agitator» in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform. Boasberg recently issued an order blocking deportation flights under wartime authorities from an 18th century law that Trump invoked to carry out his plans. «HE DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY,» Trump wrote on Tuesday. «I'm just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges' I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!» ALSO READ: Trump's approval rating soars to new high, Americans say US is on right track than any time in 20 years: poll

Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled that their terminations were likely illegal. The filings made in Baltimore, Maryland, federal court late Monday include statements from officials at 18 agencies, all of whom said the reinstated probationary workers were being placed on administrative leave at least temporarily. The mass firings, part of President Donald Trump's broader purge of the federal workforce, were widely reported, but the court filings are the first full accounting of the terminations by the administration. Most of the agencies said they had fired a few hundred workers. The Treasury Department terminated about 7,600 people, the Department of Agriculture about 5,700 and the Department of Health and Human Services more than 3,200, according to the filings. U.S. District Judge James Bredar on March 13 said the mass firings of probationary workers that began last month violated regulations governing the mass layoffs of federal employees, and ordered them to be reinstated pending further litigation.

Rasha Alawieh, a Brown University assistant professor and doctor, was deported over the weekend from Boston to Lebanon after federal agents found pictures of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s supreme leader on her cell phone. Despite holding a valid visa and a court order blocking her deportation, she was returned to Paris while re-entering the US, alleging her ties to Hamas. This incident has raised concerns about US Customs and Border Protection's actions and judicial authority.

Supreme Court on March 18, with the top court extending its interim order protecting her from arrest. Khedkar is accused in a document forging case, which she allegedly did to qualify for the 2022 Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination. A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma instructed the Delhi police to expedite their investigation into the matter.

AI-generated avatars to deliver news of every ruling issued by the justices, marking what is believed to be the first example in the U.S. of a state court system tapping artificial intelligence to build more human-like characters to connect with the public. A court in Florida uses an animated chatbot to help visitors navigate its website, but the Arizona Supreme Court is charting new territory with the creation of Victoria and Daniel. Made of pixels, the two avatars have a different job in that they serve as the face of news coming from the court just as a spokesperson made of flesh and blood would do — but faster. The use of AI has touched nearly every profession and discipline, growing exponentially in recent years and showing infinite potential when it comes to things as simple as internet searches or as complex as brain surgery. For officials with the Arizona Supreme Court, their venture into AI is rooted in a desire to promote trust and confidence in the judicial system.

euro and other major peers on Tuesday as investors grappled with the potential economic impact of growing global trade tensions. Fears that U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policies could trigger a broader economic slowdown has undermined the greenback amid a string of soggy sentiment surveys.

A federal judge in New York has granted the attorneys of a Russian woman permission to issue subpoenas to access the financial records of Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister and other officials involved in the sale of a megayacht that her father had a...

Supreme Court on Monday emphasised the importance of maintaining «freedom of media,» stating that courts should not issue "gag orders" that restrict this freedom. The remarks came during the hearing of a plea filed by the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) challenging a Delhi High Court order to take down a page titled "Asian News International versus Wikimedia Foundation." The Supreme Court issued a notice to ANI, which filed a defamation case against Wikipedia. The Bench, led by Justice A.S.

Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), calls for the creation of an independent committee, comprising the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition, and Chief Justice of India, to appoint the CAG. The petitioner argued that the current selection process undermines the independence of the CAG. Advocate Prashant Bhushan claimed that the CAG's independence has diminished in recent years, pointing to a decline in reports and audits, especially in states ruled by the BJP.

illegal land allotment scandal. Sharma stands booked by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on charges of money laundering in the said scandal. Sharma had petitioned the top Court seeking discharge from the case.

However, a bench led by Justice JB Pardiwala said that Jai Corp and others are at liberty to seek quashing of the FIR filed by the Economic Offences Branch of CBI, Mumbai, before an appropriate court, which will decide the case uninfluenced by the HC observations. Senior counsel Harish Salve and counsel Mahesh Agarwal, appearing for Jai Corp and others, told the SC that the allegation made by activist petitioner Shoaib Richie Sequeira have already been considered by statutory regulator — SEBI, SAT, a coordinate bench of the Bombay High Court and also BSE, and each of them have not found any merit in these allegations.

Nationalist Congress Party Leader Dhananjay Munde, Supriya Sule said that she felt that it was better that the party had split as she could not bear to work with Munde. «Sometimes I feel it was better that the party got split. Because if I had remained in the party then I could not have remained (in the party)… The world knows about my stand. The man who can plant a gun in his wife’s car, who is the mother of his children, I can’t work with such a man,” said Sule while addressing party workers in Pune on Sunday. Sule, the National Working President of the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party claimed that the fight in the NCP leadership began over expelling people like Munde. She further added, “The fight (in the party) began since then, I am revealing all this now. I am not afraid of anyone.”said Sule. While Sule did not name Munde, it is no secret as to who she was referring to as Munde’s estranged second wife Karuna Munde was arrested in September 2021 in Beed by the police who claimed that they had recovered a gun from the car. Sule’s remarks against Munde are significant as in social media there have been images circulating of an unidentified man placing an object in Karuna Munde’s car when she was in Beed to campaign against Munde.

Thames Water has received court approval for up to 3 billion pounds of emergency funding

Supreme Court on Monday said the trial of the Manipur ethnic violence cases, probed by the CBI, would be conducted in Guwahati, Assam, where it was transferred to earlier. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna also extended till July 31, 2025, the tenure of a committee headed by Justice Gita Mittal, the former chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. The panel, also comprising former Bombay High Court judge Shalini P Joshi and Asha Menon, former Delhi High Court judge, was set up on August 7, 2023 by the top court to oversee relief and rehabilitation of the victims of ethnic violence in Manipur. The tenure of the panel was previously extended by the top court by six months on August 5, last year. On Monday, the bench noted the submissions of a lawyer over the fate of the trials in the cases that were transferred to Guwahati for pre-trial proceedings by the bench on August 25, 2023. «We clarify that the trial of transferred cases will be held before the courts at Guwahati,» the CJI said.

Centre for Public Interest Litigation, and tagged it with the pending matter on the same issue. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, said that the question is of independence of the institution and alleged that audits by CAG of states like Maharashtra, where the BJP is in power, are being stalled.