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Obama, Biden judges draw fresh fire as Trump’s immigration court clashes heat up: ‘Almost impossible’

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is drawing a distinction between the federal judges he says the Trump administration can work with and those he says are «almost impossible» to deal with, singling out judges appointed by President Joe Biden as the administration continues to fight immigration battles in federal court.
«We find judges, for the most part, honestly, that we can work with in almost every area. But you’ve got some of the judges that were appointed underneath Obama and definitely, if they’re appointed by Biden, they are almost impossible to work with,» said Mullin on the sidelines of the RNC Midterm Convention on Thursday.
Mullin’s comments come as the Trump administration has repeatedly run into federal judges over its immigration policies, including recent rulings involving birthright citizenship and immigrant visa issuance. But while those court fights have received significant attention, Mullin offered a broader assessment of the judges he believes are most difficult for DHS to work with, specifically pointing to judges appointed by Biden — and, to a lesser extent, Obama.
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In April, Biden-appointed Judge Brian Murphy blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for more than 5,000 Ethiopians, while in September, Biden-appointed Judge Deborah Boardman blocked enforcement of Trump’s August executive order limiting birthright citizenship, finding the order likely unconstitutional.
Mullin said immigration cases should be «cut and dry,» arguing that they ultimately come down to whether an individual entered the country legally and has the proper paperwork.
He compared the issue to homeownership, asking whether someone has «the deed of the house you’re living in» and whether they legally own it.
Mullin also criticized state and local officials in blue states for limiting cooperation with ICE detainer requests, including in cases in which DHS alleges that detainees are violent criminals, drug dealers or known terrorists.
«It makes absolutely zero sense,» Mullin said.
Beyond the court system, DHS is also facing battles with elected leaders in blue cities and states.
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«Virginia is out of control right now. I mean, when you start looking at the great state of Virginia, who had a great governor in Governor Youngkin … and now what they have, they canceled their 287(g) programs, they’re not allowing any cooperation with ICE or any of DHS’s law enforcement push to make sure we get the criminals off our streets,» said Mullin.
Within weeks of taking office, Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger directed the state’s law-enforcement agencies to terminate their existing 287(g) agreements with ICE, which her administration said placed participating officers under federal supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement.
Mullin claimed that 50% of recent deaths in Fairfax County were «at the hands of an illegal.»
«I’ve said this multiple times, every death that happens at the hands of an illegal is 100% preventable. So why the governor of Virginia, why they wouldn’t participate with us being DHS and forcing our nation’s laws and getting their criminals off the streets make no sense,» he said.
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Still, Mullin said the Trump administration would not force blue cities to accept federal assistance, arguing that DHS would remain ready to help communities that request it.
«What we’re not gonna do is force our way in. You’re gonna have to decide that,» Mullin said, leaving the decision to individual communities.
In Danbury, Connecticut, the City Council amended its police hiring ordinance to allow lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients to apply to become police officers.
«I don’t understand how you can be in law enforcement and yet you have no legal status. I just don’t know what, in some of these very liberal towns and liberal states, what are they thinking,» said Mullin.
«They’re prioritizing criminals over law-abiding citizens. We are a nation of laws, and either we respect them or we don’t,» he added. «What separates us from a third world country is we don’t believe in lawlessness and when you came in this country illegally, you chose to skip the line because we have a legal process.»
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Supreme Court begins new term with high-profile look at clean air and federal authority

The Supreme Court launched its new term Monday with a blockbuster oral argument over whether federal or state laws and courts should handle civil lawsuits against energy companies for alleged climate change harms.
Eight justices debated for nearly two hours on a key gateway over environmental liability — who decides and where. It was unclear after the public session how the court might rule.
Absent was Justice Samuel Alito, who recused last week after calls to step aside because he owns stock in oil companies, but not the two at the center of Monday’s appeal.
Local and state governments seek civil damages totaling billions of dollars, arguing it is necessary to help pay for rebuilding after wildfires, rising sea levels, and severe storms worsened by fossil fuel pollution.
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Colorado’s highest court let the case brought by Boulder County proceed.
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The companies — backed by the Trump administration — counter emissions are a national issue that should be heard in federal court, where similar suits have been tossed out.
The justices will also decide whether they have jurisdiction to hear this dispute, or whether it belongs in state courts.
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Chief Justice John Roberts could be the deciding vote. He asked tough questions of both sides and his vote could produce a 4-4 tie with Alito not participating.
That would mean the specific lawsuit moves ahead in state courts. He said the court in the past has allowed similar claims to be decided outside the federal venue.
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«There are a lot of familiar situations where conduct outside of the state has broad effects among other states, and yet we allow state courts in a particular state to bring litigation,» said Roberts. «I guess I’m not quite sure what makes this situation different from all those other ones, where we’ve allowed them to proceed in state court.»
Justice Elena Kagan compared the climate change lawsuits to previous claims against tobacco and opioid companies brought by states on behalf of their citizens.
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«This is the same kind of lawsuit against the same kind of actors for the same kind of harm,» said Kagan. «Where does this principle come from, that states can’t regulate in the air and water space?»
But Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed to speak for many of his conservative colleagues, on the implications for multi-jurisdictional lawsuits to play out, potentially for decades.
» It is going to bankrupt – if there are enough of these [lawsuits] — bankrupt these various defendants and certainly other defendants out there. Anyone is a potential defendant for a suit like this. Any manufacturer, any business,» suggested Kavanaugh.
«We don’t have to reinvent the wheel because we’ve said this multiple times,» he added, «and Congress, presumably, when doing the Clean Air Act and doing the Clean Air Act amendments, has relied on this Court’s precedents establishing that this kind of pollution is a federal law matter unless Congress speaks otherwise.»
The current litigation is part of dozens of lawsuits brought by states and municipalities across the country.
Boulder County, located north-west of Denver, sued in 2018.
Among the defendants is Suncor, a Canadian-based energy giant that operates the only major oil refinery in Colorado. ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the U.S., is also a defendant.
Local officials claim the energy firms have misled the public about their role in climate change, and say financial penalties are necessary to mitigate ongoing harms in their communities, including recent forest fires and worsening air pollution.
Some states also accuse the current administration of rolling back mandated protections in the Clean Air Act and thereby abdicating their regulatory authority.
But the companies and the Trump Justice Department argue climate change should be addressed by the national government in federal court, and that the Clean Air Act limits what individual states and counties can do.
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They say this global problem is not limited to any one energy sector or country, and cannot be resolved by what they call local «power grabs.»
Some litigators believe the companies could fare better in federal court since they would not have to juggle dozens of ongoing lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions.
«Interstate air pollution is an inherently federal area,» Sarah Harris, a Justice Department lawyer, told the court. «This suit egregiously exceeds constitutional limits on state authority,» Harris told the justices.
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With the possibility of an evenly divided court, the eight justices may not have to reach the merits of the federalism question.
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The Supreme Court specifically asked both parties to address at argument whether it should even hear the case, at least at this stage. That procedural «exit ramp» could put the larger issues off for another day.
«I understand that you have several other federal issues that you have raised that are still pending in the state court,» Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked the oil companies lawyer Kannon Shanmugam. «So why shouldn’t we wait and hear all of these claims once the state courts are done with their federal considerations?»
The case is Suncor Energy Inc. v. Commissioners of Boulder County, CO (25-170).
A decision is expected by next spring.
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El posible hallazgo médico que un grupo de especialistas detectó en tres cuadros de Rubens conservados en el Prado

Una simulación por computadora descartó que la marca azul en el pecho izquierdo de Betsabé, en el famoso cuadro de Rembrandt, sea producto de un cáncer de mama, aunque el debate médico sobre la obra lleva más de cuatro décadas abierto y otras hipótesis todavía compiten por explicar la anomalía.
En 1983, los cirujanos P. A. Braithwaite y D. Shugg analizaron Betsabé con la carta del rey David —terminada por Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn en 1654 y conservada en el Museo del Louvre de París— y publicaron una hipótesis que cruzó el arte con la medicina: las alteraciones visibles en el pecho izquierdo de la figura femenina podrían ser compatibles con un cáncer de mama. La coloración azulada en la parte inferior del seno y una hinchazón perceptible bajo la axila izquierda fueron los elementos que sustentaron su lectura clínica.
Desde entonces, el cuadro se convirtió en un símbolo recurrente de la enfermedad y fue citado en publicaciones oncológicas de todo el mundo. La hipótesis ganó peso adicional por la identidad probable de la modelo: Hendrickje Stoffels, compañera del pintor, cuya representación corporal el artista habría tomado del natural con la minuciosidad característica del realismo barroco neerlandés.

Las simulaciones de la Universidad de Twente pusieron en duda la teoría del tumor
Investigadores del instituto MIRA de la Universidad de Twente decidieron someter la hipótesis a una prueba computacional. Simularon millones de fotones con distintas longitudes de onda que incidían sobre un pecho con tumor y analizaron cuántos regresaban y qué color percibiría el cerebro humano a partir de esa luz.
El proceso de cálculo demandó 700 horas de analisis mediante computadoras. El resultado fue concluyente: una coloración azul de esas características solo podría producirse si el tumor estuviera ubicado entre uno y tres milímetros bajo la superficie de la piel. En la práctica, los tumores mamarios se desarrollan a una profundidad considerablemente mayor, y a esas profundidades no generan alteración alguna del color superficial. Los investigadores concluyeron que era “muy improbable” que la pigmentación registrada por Rembrandt tuviera su origen en un carcinoma.
Otras enfermedades también fueron propuestas para explicar la anomalía
Antes de que la Universidad de Twente publicara sus simulaciones, otros especialistas ya habían cuestionado el diagnóstico de cáncer por razones clínicas. Hendrickje Stoffels sobrevivió casi diez años después de que se pintara el cuadro, una trayectoria difícil de conciliar con un cáncer avanzado sin ningún tipo de tratamiento eficaz disponible en el siglo XVII.

En 2000, el oncólogo R. G. Bourne propuso como alternativa una mastitis tuberculosa o un absceso asociado a la lactancia. Otros investigadores señalaron una mastitis vinculada al embarazo. Y en 2020, el especialista vascular Paolo Zamboni planteó en su estudio la enfermedad de Mondor, una tromboflebitis superficial que afecta los vasos linfáticos y venosos de la mama y que sí podría generar una coloración visible en la superficie de la piel.
Rubens también plasmó signos similares en tres cuadros del Prado
El caso de Betsabé no es el único en la pintura barroca en el que los médicos han identificado posibles indicios de patología mamaria. Un artículo publicado en 2001 en Medicina Clínica por los investigadores Juan J. Grau, Miguel Prats y Matías Díaz-Padrón —este último del Museo del Prado de Madrid— analizó tres obras de Peter Paul Rubens conservadas en ese museo: Las tres Gracias, Orfeo y Eurídice y Diana y sus ninfas perseguidas por sátiros.
En Las tres Gracias, pintada hacia 1636, los autores describieron en la figura de la derecha una tumoración en el cuadrante superior externo del pecho izquierdo, con extensión hacia el hueco axilar, retracción del pezón y signos inflamatorios, elementos que consideraron compatibles con un cáncer localmente avanzado, estadio T4b o IIIb según la clasificación actual. Los investigadores destacaron que esa zona del cuadro, pintada sobre tabla, se conservaba en perfecto estado y que los restauradores no habían introducido cambios en el aspecto de la axila de la modelo.

El realismo barroco hace difícil separar el arte del testimonio
La polémica médica alrededor de estas obras está alimentada, en parte, por las propias convenciones estéticas del Barroco. Tanto Rubens como Rembrandt practicaban el realismo pictórico, una tradición en la que el artista buscaba reproducir con fidelidad lo que tenía ante sus ojos. Sus modelos eran personas reales, y sus cuerpos —con sus particularidades y asimetrías— quedaban registrados con una precisión que, siglos después, permite a los médicos especular sobre diagnósticos retroactivos.
Que Hendrickje Stoffels fuera realmente la modelo de Betsabé tampoco está confirmado con certeza absoluta, lo que introduce una variable adicional de incertidumbre. Lo que sí permanece es el debate: cuatro décadas después de que dos cirujanos australianos fijaran su mirada clínica sobre un lienzo del siglo XVII, la ciencia sigue sin cerrar el expediente.
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Lula prepara su estrategia para enfrentar a Flávio Bolsonaro en el balotaje y apunta a aumentar la participación electoral

El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, se enfrenta a un escenario adverso de cara a la segunda vuelta electoral, después de quedar detrás de Flávio Bolsonaro en los comicios de este domingo.
El mandatario se reunía este lunes en Brasilia con su equipo de campaña para empezar a diagramar una nueva estrategia, distinta de la que se implementó durante los últimos meses.
Lula ya anticipó el cambio de etapa frente a sus seguidores y allegados el domingo por la noche, en el hotel de San Pablo donde la dirigencia esperó los resultados. Allí reconoció que desde hoy comenzaba “una nueva campaña”.
Flávio Bolsonaro ganó la primera vuelta con 47,03% de los votos válidos, mientras que Lula obtuvo 45,16%. El balotaje está prevista para el próximo 25 de octubre.
“Las claves son dos: disputar la segunda vuelta con la premisa de cambiar para mejor y negativizar a Flávio, con foco en los cambios que hizo en el pasado su padre, Jair Bolsonaro, y la idea de un cambio para peor”, dijo a TN el analista brasileño Antonio Lavareda, presidente honorario de la Asociación Brasileña de Investigadores Electorales.
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La nueva estrategia de Lula tendrá tres ejes centrales. En primer lugar, la campaña buscará confrontar de manera directa con Flávio Bolsonaro y establecer comparaciones entre los dos espacios políticos.
El discurso del vicepresidente brasileño, Geraldo Alckmin, luego de conocerse los resultados, dio una muestra de la estrategia que podría desplegar el oficialismo durante las próximas semanas.
La intención será contrastar al lulismo con el bolsonarismo, incluso recuperando temas de la gestión del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, como el manejo de la pandemia de coronavirus, y enfrentar esos antecedentes con las políticas implementadas por el actual Gobierno.
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