The Trump administration condemned a federal judge’s ruling to stop the government from ending protection for immigrants from four countries in turmoil. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered the administration to temporarily stop its plan to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. The protection program began in 1990 to aid migrants from countries battling natural disasters or war. Some 300,000 migrants are in the United States on TPS.
Federal authorities late Tuesday charged four men of rioting in connection to last year’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. The men are part of the Rise Above Movement, a group that espouses anti-Semitic and racist views. Members organize, train, and deploy individuals to political rallies across the country, according to U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen, who called the men “serial rioters” during a Tuesday news conference.
The Ford-Kavanaugh hearing on Sept. 27 was one of the most dramatic days in recent American history. It featured pathos, chest beating, and heart wringing, elements of tragedy that Aristotle once described as “catharsis”—the purging or cleansing of emotion. Only, at the end, no one felt cleansed. It was a terrible day, all commentators agreed: terrible for our country, for justice, for honor, for due process, for common decency.
Politics | A new Supreme Court opening ratchets up the tension of a stress-filled year
