Political crisis in El Salvador as parliament ousts judges, AG

SAN SALVADOR - A political storm has erupted in El Salvador as its parliament, newly controlled by President Nayib Bukele's party, dismissed the attorney general and top judges deemed hostile to ... Read More

Political crisis in El Salvador as parliament ousts top judges - The Tico Times

El Salvador’s new legislative assembly voted Saturday to dismiss top Supreme Court judges hostile to populist President Nayib Bukele, triggering a political storm as the opposition derided the move as ... Read More

Trump judges pump brakes so far on Alien Enemies Act deportations to El Salvador | CNN Politics

The centerpiece of Donald Trump’s hardline attempts to deport undocumented immigrants using a wartime power has been met with resistance by federal courts, including among judges Trump himself ... Read More

Court orders Trump administration to facilitate another deported man’s return from El Salvador

A federal appeals court in New York has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a man who was deported to El Salvador roughly 30 minutes after the court suspended an order to ... Read More

House Republican Pushes Bill to Limit ‘Rogue Judges’ Trying to Free Migrant Imprisoned In El Salvador By ‘Error’ - MSN

A 60 Minutes investigation revealed on Sunday that 75% of those deported and imprisoned in El Salvador in fact did not have criminal records in the U.S. or around the world that they could find. Read More

Trump's clash with judges escalates to 'all-out war' - USA TODAY

After the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of a Maryland resident wrongly deported to El Salvador and the administration continued to resist bringing him ... Read More

Appeals court warns of mounting ‘crisis’ over Trump’s refusal to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return - The Independent

The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been imprisoned in a notorious jail in El Salvador since March 15, could soon return to the Supreme Court. An appeals court blasted Donald Trump’s team ... Read More

AG pick Matt Gaetz has suggested El Salvador’s brutal law enforcement is a good model - MSNBC

Matt Gaetz, Trump’s controversial pick for attorney general, has been foremost among Republicans expressing admiration for Salvadoran strongman Nayib Bukele's strong-arm tactics. Read More

El Salvador’s Bukele Says He Doesn’t Have Power to Return the Mistakenly Deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is a global right-wing icon. WSJ explains how he became an influential figure in the MAGA movement with close ties to many of President Trump’s allies. Read More

Lesotho elects new parliament amid unresolved political crisis

Divisions and defections hitting ruling ABC party Two opposition rivals seen neck-and-neck Reforms stalled in southern African mountain kingdom MASERU, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Lesotho citizens voted in ... Read More

Matt Gaetz would oversee US prisons as AG. He thinks El Salvador’s hardline lockups are a model - Local News 8

By David Culver and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — As he stood inside the echoing hall of the prison, Matt Gaetz seemed impressed. “There’s a lot more discipline in this prison than we see in a ... Read More