President Donald Trump is heralding victories from the Supreme Court that legal experts say are short-term, procedural, and incremental wins at best in his effort to unilaterally advance immigration and federal spending priorities.
Responses to rulings that allowed the Trump administration to keep deporting alleged Venezuela gang members, halt teacher grants, and fire federal workers are among those said to be overblown. And the court this week issued a high-profile ruling ordering the government to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man it deported to El Salvador, largely rejecting the administration’s arguments that doing so would go beyond the government’s ...