SCOTUS rejects bail hearings for jailed immigrants
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal law does not require that immigrants detained for long periods while they are fighting deportation be granted hearings to decide whether they may be released on bond as their cases move forward. The ruling will affect thousands of immigrants detained for many months while their cases are decided by immigration courts facing long backlogs. Seven justices joined Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s majority opinion, which was tightly focused on the words of the relevant statute. Justice Stephen Breyer issued a partial dissent. The court did not consider what the Constitution has to say about the extended detentions of immigrants.
Ohio makes it easier for teachers to carry guns at school
Teachers and other school employees in Ohio will be able to carry firearms into school with a tiny fraction of the training that has been required since last year, after Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday. Under the new law, a maximum of 24 hours of training will be enough for teachers to carry guns at school, though the local board will still need to give its approval. Twenty-eight states allow people other than security personnel to carry firearms on school grounds, with laws in nine of those states explicitly mentioning school employees, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Yellowstone floods wipe out roads, bridges, strand visitors
Flooding has wiped out roads and bridges and closed off all entrances to Yellowstone National Park at the onset of the busy summer tourist season. Officials are evacuating visitors from the northern part of the park. And the flooding has cut off road access to Gardiner, a town of about 900 people near Yellowstone’s busy North Entrance. The flooding caused at least one rock slide, cut off electricity and imperiled water and sewer systems in northern Yellowstone, but has affected other areas of the park as well. Flooding also has hit the Yellowstone gateway communities of Red Lodge and Joliet in southern Montana.
Kyiv demands more arms, pressuring Europe
Losing ground to Russia’s brutal advance in the east, Ukraine on Monday demanded an arsenal of sophisticated Western weapons many times greater than what has been promised, underscoring the rising pressure on Western leaders to reconsider their approach to the war. The tactics that served the Ukrainians well early in the war have not been nearly as effective as the fighting has shifted to the open ground of the Donbas region in the east, where Russians are relying on their immense advantage in long-range artillery. Russian forces are poised to take the city of Sievierodonetsk and are closing in on the neighboring city of Lysychansk.
Efforts to form a new government in Iraq descend into chaos
Seven months of efforts to form a new government in Iraq were in turmoil Monday, a day after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr directed members of parliament who are loyal to him to resign from the seats they won in an October election. Al-Sadr, who has become one of the biggest political forces in Iraq since emerging in 2003, has no formal role but commands the allegiance of the single largest bloc in the 329-seat parliament. The 73 lawmakers of his movement submitted their resignations Sunday after the collapse of months of negotiations by al-Sadr to form a coalition government with Sunni and Kurdish partners.
Striking truck drivers in South Korea snarl supply chains
A truck driver strike in South Korea stretched into a seventh day Monday, forcing the country’s manufacturers to scale back production and slowing traffic at its ports. The strike resulted in production and shipment disruptions for automobiles, steel and petrochemicals worth 1.6 trillion won (about $1.25 billion) over the first six days, the country’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Monday. The truckers’ strike is the latest headache for a global supply chain already reeling from COVID-19 lockdowns in China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, especially because Korean companies are major suppliers for critical components and materials such as semiconductors and steel.
Bucolic Ukraine forest is site of mass grave exhumation
Ukraine’s national police chief says authorities are investigating the killings of more than 12,000 Ukrainians nationwide in the war since the Russian invasion in February. Authorities in the Kyiv region near Bucha on Monday showed reporters several victims whose hands had been tied behind their backs. Some of the victims were found in a lush green Ukrainian forest, where birds were singing. Workers in white hazmat suits conducted an exhumation in a mass grave behind a trench for a military vehicle. In other news of the war, the Russian military claimed it had destroyed weapons that the U.S. and Europe had supplied to Ukraine. There was no immediate comment on that from Ukraine.
By wire sources
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