Andrew C. McCarthy

The faithful execution of the law must not be a casualty of the administration’s immigration policy.

It is inconceivable that the secretary of state is unaware the man had a legal right against deportation to El Salvador that was enforceable in court.

The Trump administration has distorted the Court’s words to inflate the significance of the case.

It is appropriate for the government to expel non-Americans who are pro-Hamas, antisemitic agitators.

The Trump administration was foolish to believe it could deport aliens with no due process.

Prepare for a very loud week.

American law enforcement is supposed to be both energetic and fair.

In ruling the department may not revive the case, Ho called it ‘unprecedented and breathtaking’ to use the dismissal of charges as leverage for help on immigration policy.

It has to be opposed.

The administration should abandon its Alien Enemy Act theory and shift to the solid ground of federal immigration laws.

Essentially, Yunseo Chung is free while Mahmoud Khalil is detained because she beat the government to the courthouse.

Trump is out on this limb because the legislative branch is AWOL.

The department cannot afford to lose credibility, with so much on the line.

In the case of the Venezuelans, the DOJ is resisting the kind of meticulous review that it provided in Mahmoud Khalil’s case.

The president’s legal position that he can proceed with no input from Congress or judicial review is on shaky ground.

The administration is materially weakening its litigating position in the standoff over Venezuelan nationals.

The president’s EO is nothing less than a bill of attainder, and a deep constitutional wrong.

The latest chapter provides more hurdles for both Trump’s top-down and bottom-up efforts to bring the federal bureaucracy to heel.

Yes, President Trump can fire, and has fired, Hampton Dellinger.

The big argument is only just beginning.

This is an important test case for the administration.

These programs have to be undone the same way they were created.

A small but important victory for the president.

Yes, Ukraine’s president performed incompetently, but he is not the reason for Friday’s debacle.

She got the first big thing right: protecting our technology industry and all Americans from the Luddite demands of Britain’s Labour government.

Is this righteous indignation or shrewd choreography?

Psst — there is no administrator of DOGE. There is Elon Musk.

Yet by making clear that Musk’s power is limited, it could help DOGE in court.

The conflict of interest of its members could not be any clearer.

Judge Dale Ho has adopted the Michael Flynn model in navigating this case. I am wary.