Acting Solicitor General filed emergency applications in three birthright citizenship cases ( 24A884 , 24A885 , and 24A886) The government does not seek any remedy based on a likelihood of success on the merits, rather on procedural grounds.

Five members of the Court have criticized nationwide injunctions.

Julian Zelizer : Whether a district court may properly enjoin the Executive Branch's development and publication of policies is a weighty separation-of-powers question.

Zelizer asks: Will Justice Barrett deny standing to the blue states, as she did to Texas in Brackeen ? He says Supreme Court should scrutinize the blue state's claim for standing as meticulously as she scrutinized Missouri 's claim in Murthy v. Missouri .

I will repeat what I wrote last week . Lower courts are issuing universal orders with impunity, and are not granting stays to seek appellate review. There has been an inversion of Article III . I know the Court does not want to be accused of another Dred Scott (and you know that criticism is coming). The Court could have cleaned up this mess in the USAID case, but we all know how that one turned out. When you keep kicking the can down the road, eventually the can is no longer a can..

President Donald Trump 's strategy for resolving the war in Ukraine has so far centered on heavy U.S. pressure applied to Ukraine and sympathetic rhetoric toward Russia .

Julian Zelizer : Trump has repeatedly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin “holds all the cards” in Ukraine .

He says Putin may push for a total cessation of Western arms support to Ukraine in return for supporting a ceasefire.

Zelizer says the time has arrived for Trump to show Russia his diplomatic inventory carries a big stick.

Four federal courts have issued rulings blocking Donald Trump's executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and immigrants in the US on temporary visas.

Three of them have issued nationwide injunctions, blocking enforcement of the the order throughout the country.

The Trump Administration has filed nearly identical emergency applications asking the Supreme Court to intervene in all three cases.

I would add that an injunction limited to a particular state or set of states would result in a situation where many children are considered US citizens in some states, but not others. If the Supreme Court wants to put an end to nationwide injunctions generally, they can do so. But if not, there are extraordinarily compelling reasons to maintain the injunctions in these cases..

Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump has declared an economic war on Canada that is savage enough to cripple its economy.

She says the U.S. has been Canada ’s closest partner and friend in more than two months .

Ghitis says Trump has threatened to use “economic force” to “get rid of that artificially drawn line” between Canada and the United States . She says he wants to use tariffs to compel Canada to tighten border security to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U., but that wasn’t enough for Trump .

The number of Canadians who view the U.S. favorably is plummeting.

A recent poll found that 27 percent of Canadians now see the United States as an enemy.

Marc Carney , the new leader of Canada ’s governing Liberal Party , called the US . “a country we can no longer trust”.

Romania 's electoral commission has banned the right-populist Calin Georgescu from running for president in the country’s upcoming May elections.

Julian Zelizer : The Trump administration should go further by announcing it is pulling troops and support from Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base .

He says leaving the 57th Air Base would make clear that things have changed permanently.

It's hard to imagine what benefit the U.S. gains from the 57th Air Base in Romania .

The base is important to Romania , of course, but its importance to Romania does not make it important to the United States .

Even if the Romanian establishment allows some sort of genuinely right-wing candidate to run, it will not change America ’s geographic national interests.

Iran has sent mixed signals about whether it thinks negotiating with the U.S. leader is a good idea.

Iran ’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed skepticism regarding diplomacy with Washington .

Many Iranians are disappointed in Biden and see Trump as a dealmaker.

Many Iranians told me that Donald Trump , despite his bluster, is more likely than his liberal alternatives to come to a fair agreement with the Islamic Republic .

They observed that Trump is not an ideologue bound by party discipline or traditional Republican Party beliefs, but a highly transactional politician looking to make deals.

A breakthrough in the standoff between Washington and Tehran requires nothing short of a diplomatic masterpiece.

Dominic Green: The Ukraine war is like a Russian doll with a series of complex geopolitical questions.

Green: It's not just a proxy war in which the U.S. uses Ukraine to weaken Russia , but China uses Russia to weaken Europe and the U., he says.

He says the Obama-Biden approach, updating and expanding post-Cold War policies, will fail because it no longer reflects global reality.

Green says the Trump administration is trying to split Russia from China .

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is mobilizing Democrats against Schumer ’s plan to stop a Republican -backed stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown.

CNN reported that some of her colleagues are urging the leftist firebrand to consider a primary challenge against him.

Schumer said that he believes the GOP funding patch is “very bad,” but insisted “allowing” President Donald Trump “to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option”.

It is impossible to back President Donald Trump ’s aggressive trade war against Canada , writes Peter Bergen .

Bergen : U.S. is dividing the West , delighting Putin and destroying the electoral prospects of Canadian conservatives.

He says Canada no more provoked Trump 's tariffs than Ukraine provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin 's invasion.

President Harry S. Truman supported the creation of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948 .

In his memoirs, Truman wrote that he was in staunch support of the creation and recognition of Israel .

In 2008 , a full 60 years later , a motion for a voice vote to amend the party platform to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel was met with many delegates shouting “no” and with loud boos when the motion was deemed to have passed.

Now, here we are a full 17 years later and the antisemitism seen by Truman in 1948 , which then flavored the 2008 Democratic Convention, is well out there right now.