The Latest: Vance visits Greenland as Trump presses for a US takeover of the island

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demanded that the country change its approach as President Donald Trump continues to talk of taking over the Danish territory.

During his visit to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, Vance said the U.S. has “no option” but to take a significant position to ensure the security of Greenland. Greenlanders are increasingly worried that their homeland, a self-governing region of Denmark, has become a pawn in the competition between the U.S., Russia and China.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says judges must remain ‘fearlessly independent’

Sotomayor also acknowledged that many people are worried about challenges to the rule of law.

Without mentioning Trump, Sotomayor told Georgetown Law School students that judges have to make sure the government respects people’s rights. Her remarks came as Trump and his allies have denounced judges who have slowed his agenda, even calling for some to be impeached.

“One of the things that is troubling so many right now is that many of the standards that are being changed right now were norms that governed officials into what is right and wrong. Once norms are broken then you’re shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law,” Sotomayor said as she answered questions posed by students and law school Dean William Treanor.

The Trump administration is facing more than 130 lawsuits over the president’s flurry of executive actions, including four that are currently pending at the Supreme Court.

US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions

The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, according to federal court documents made public Friday.

The change in policy was made in February by Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the academy’s superintendent, in response to Trump’s executive order saying “every element of the Armed Forces should operate free from any preference based on race or sex,” according to a court filing by the U.S. Justice Department.

Trump’s order also directed the secretary of defense to conduct an internal review with respect to all “activities designed to promote a race- or sex-based preferences system,” including reviews at the service academies.

Judge blocks Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Voice of America

Judge James Paul Oetken blocked the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which runs the government-funded international news service, from firing more than 1,200 journalists, engineers and other staff that it sidelined two weeks ago after Trump ordered its funding slashed.

Oetken issued a temporary restraining order barring the agency from “any further attempt to terminate, reduce-in-force, place on leave, or furlough” employees or contractors, and from closing any offices or requiring overseas employees to return to the U.S.

Trump commutes the sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson

The commutation came just before Watson was due to report to prison for a nearly 10-year sentence in a financial conspiracy case. It confirmed by a senior White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the decision and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Watson was convicted last year in a closely watched case that showcased the implosion of an ambitious startup company.

Breon Peace, who was serving as the Brooklyn-based U.S. attorney at the time, said after the trial that the jury determined “Watson was a con man who told lie upon lie upon lie to deceive investors into buying stock in his company.”

Ozy Media “collapsed under the weight of Watson’s dishonest schemes,” Peace said.

Trump has been aggressively using his presidential powers to commute sentences and pardon people he believes were treated unfairly by the justice system.