Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump's Immigrant Visa Ban on 75 Countries

In a ruling that reasserts the boundaries Congress drew around executive power, a federal judge in New York has struck down the Trump administration's suspension of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 nations, finding that no statute grants the Secretary of State the authority to make such a sweeping determination. The decision arrives as hundreds of thousands of families — separated by policy rather than circumstance — waited for pathways that had been abruptly closed. It is a reminder that in democratic systems, the architecture of law is itself a form of protection, and that courts remain on