{"id":32633,"date":"2025-02-06T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/prince-harry-sees-court-setback-on-immigration-records-case-in-first-hearing-since-trump-took-office\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T15:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:53:37","slug":"prince-harry-sees-court-setback-on-immigration-records-case-in-first-hearing-since-trump-took-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/prince-harry-sees-court-setback-on-immigration-records-case-in-first-hearing-since-trump-took-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry sees court setback on immigration records case in first hearing since Trump took office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge indicated that he is &#8220;likely&#8221; to release immigration files on Prince Harry after the first hearing in the royal\u2019s high-profile case since President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> took office.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols said Harry\u2019s files should be released &#8220;to the maximum extent possible,&#8221; during Wednesday\u2019s hearing in Washington, D.C., according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/05\/us-news\/federal-judge-likely-to-crack-open-prince-harrys-visa-records-as-questions-swirl-around-drug-use-special-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report from the New York Post,<\/a> with the judge reasoning that he is &#8220;required to make public everything that can be made public&#8221; but would take care not to violate any privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m going to take this in stages,&#8221; Nichols said, noting that the government will have the ability to propose potential redactions.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday hearing marked the first in the case since the inauguration of Trump, who has been pressed in recent weeks to step in and unseal Harry\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration records.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-slammed-justine-bateman-being-disaster-tourists-amid-california-fires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE SLAMMED BY JUSTINE BATEMAN FOR BEING &#8216;DISASTER TOURISTS&#8217; AMID CALIFORNIA FIRES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll be urging the president to release Prince Harry\u2019s immigration records and the president does have that legal authority to do that,&#8221; Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind the lawsuit to unseal Harry\u2019s records, told the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s important because this is an issue of the rule of law, transparency and accountability. No one should be above the law,&#8221; Gardiner added. &#8220;Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of strict border control enforcement, and you know, Prince Harry should be held fully to account as he has admitted to extensive illegal drug use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-visit-southern-california-support-wildfire-victims-recovery-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE, VISIT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO SUPPORT WILDFIRE VICTIMS, RECOVERY EFFORTS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At issue in the case is whether Harry lied on immigration forms or was provided with special treatment when he initially moved to the U.S. in 2020, a question that arose after the royal admitted to using illegal drugs in his memoir &#8220;Spare,&#8221; which was released in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The admission by Harry sparked a lawsuit by the Heritage Foundation, which sued the Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeland Security<\/a> in an attempt to have the royal\u2019s immigration records released.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Trump indicated on the campaign trail that he is open to deporting Harry and has in the past been critical of the royal\u2019s move to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has been so disrespectful to the country, and I think he&#8217;s an embarrassment,&#8221; Trump said in a 2022 interview with Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge indicated that he is &#8220;likely&#8221; to release immigration files on Prince Harry after the first hearing in the royal\u2019s high-profile case since President Donald Trump took office. 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Nichols said Harry\u2019s files should be released &#8220;to the maximum extent possible,&#8221; during Wednesday\u2019s hearing in Washington, D.C., according &#8230; <a title=\"Prince Harry sees court setback on immigration records case in first hearing since Trump took office\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/prince-harry-sees-court-setback-on-immigration-records-case-in-first-hearing-since-trump-took-office\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prince Harry sees court setback on immigration records case in first hearing since Trump took office\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}