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Stephen Miller, left, and Will Scharf, right, in the Oval Office earlier this year. Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by Stephen Miller, the powerful adviser driving President Trump’s deportation campaign. Dated April 29, 2025, and stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful and lawyerly but...

By Raven Jiang It is easy to forget that one of the most far-reaching federal criminal justice reform bills in history was signed by Donald Trump. The First Step Act of 2018 reduced mandatory minimum prison sentences, allowed for people to be incarcerated closer to their homes and encouraged compassionate release for elderly or terminally ill prisoners. In 2020, Mr. Trump’s campaign spent millions on a Super Bowl ad that spotlighted the law. Read the full article in The New York Times.

Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both climate policy and the court itself spinning in new directions... Read the full article in The New York Times.