Just yesterday, Vice President J.D. Vance and the pontiff met briefly in Rome. Later, in his Easter message, the Pope called for better treatment of migrants and other vulnerable and marginalized people, reports Margherita Stancati of The Wall Street Journal. 

In the United States, ongoing court challenges to administration policies made headlines over the weekend. On Friday, a federal appeals court affirmed a judge's ruling that prevented the Trump administration from canceling Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, reports Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald. 

On Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act, reports Jasmine Garsd of NPR. 

"The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court," the note reads. 

Hours before the Supreme Court’s announcement, about 30 Venezuelan migrants were sent in buses toward an airport in North Texas. It turned around following the halt, reports an NBC News team. 

The administration’s immigration enforcement is presenting "a clash over the rule of law and due process," on the one hand, "vs. the Trump administration’s assertions of presidential power and its resistance to challenges by federal district court judges," analyzes Dan Balz of The Washington Post. Peter Baker writes on a similar theme in The New York Times. 

Jennie spoke about this dynamic in an interview with Brittany Lewis of Forbes late last week. 

Speaking of the president’s resistance to the judicial branch, on Sunday he spent part of his own Easter message criticizing judges, reports Antonio Pequeño IV of Forbes. 

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