Supreme Court delays oral arguments on border wall and asylum rule
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to postpone oral arguments in significant cases regarding former President Donald Trump’s border wall and a controversial asylum policy.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to delay the arguments. The Justice Department said Biden has directed a “pause in construction” so that the administration can undertake an assessment “of the legality of the funding and contracting methods used to construct the wall.” The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition asked the Supreme Court last year to block the construction the wall.
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The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has deprived at least 3.4 million children of the polio vaccination this year, a public health ministry official said Wednesday.
The Afghan Ministry of Health launched a five-day nationwide campaign between November 30 and December 4 to vaccinate at least 9.9 million children, but were only able to reach 6.5 million children in 34 provinces, a public relations officer for the anti-polio campaign, Mir Jan Rasikh, told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).
Rasikh said provinces such as Helmand, Ghazni, Baghlan, Kunduz and Takhar have the highest number of children who have not been vaccinated against polio due to opposition from armed groups such as the Taliban, who do not allow access to health care workers in areas under their control.
By Nikki Slusher
Donald Trump is no stranger to doing things his own way. We have had almost a half decade of his unprecedented actions while in the Oval Office. There has been multitudinous amounts of executive orders and vetoes when he didn’t get his way. He has also used the power of his office to help his loyal followers in their legal troubles. For instance, Trump has commuted sentences for long-time allies, like Roger Stone, and plenty of pardons for anyone the president deems as a subject of a witch hunt including his former national security advisor Michael Flynn and former campaign advisor George Papadopoulos.
UN criticises Trump s pardons for Blackwater guards
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Unforgettable moments 2020: Bible, tear gas star in Trump s most awkward photo-op. Image Source: IANS News
United Nations, Dec 24 : The UN has sharply criticised President Donald Trump s decision to pardon four former Blackwater contractors jailed over the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians.
Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard opened fire in Baghdad s Nisoor Square in 2007 while guarding an American diplomatic convoy.
The UN Human Rights Office warned that the pardons would serve to embolden others to commit similar crimes, the BBC reported on Wednesday.