Daily Headlines: Courts Judge orders Kennedy Center renovation plans turned over to Democratic board member before Monday closure vote after calling administration secrecy “preposterous.” March 15, 2026 View Details Energy Secretary Wright invokes Defense Production Act to restart a California offshore oil pipeline shut down after a 2015 spill that sent more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil onto the coast. March 15, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders VA to restore collective bargaining, ruling Secretary Collins violated the First Amendment by retaliating against the largest federal employee union. March 14, 2026 View Details DOJ drops prosecution of veteran who burned flag near White House after judge ordered inquiry into whether the case was political retaliation for protected speech. March 14, 2026 View Details Federal judge temporarily blocks termination of deportation protections for more than 1,000 Somalis, days before the status was set to expire. March 14, 2026 View Details Trump’s seized oil tankers are costing millions as one ship runs up $47M in maintenance on a $10M vessel, undercutting claims of a financial windfall. March 14, 2026 View Details Texas jury convicts eight protesters of providing material support to terrorists for ICE facility ambush, the first trial convictions under Trump’s Antifa terrorism designation. March 14, 2026 View Details DOJ charges man with selling stolen gun to convicted ISIS supporter who killed ODU ROTC instructor, five years after ATF investigated the seller and issued only a warning. March 14, 2026 View Details More than 30 state attorneys general resume Live Nation antitrust trial Monday after rejecting DOJ’s settlement, as judge allows employee “gouge” chats as evidence. March 14, 2026 View Details Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind starts powering 350,000 homes and businesses after suing to overturn Trump’s suspension of five offshore wind leases. March 14, 2026 View Details Federal judge quashes DOJ subpoenas of Fed Chair Powell, finding the investigation’s primary purpose is to pressure him into lowering interest rates or resigning. March 14, 2026 View Details Rep. Beatty accused Trump of excluding her from a Kennedy Center board meeting in a court filing, then found the invitation in her email spam folder. March 13, 2026 View Details Trump nominates new head of Voice of America’s parent agency after a federal judge voided months of Kari Lake’s actions, including firing over 500 employees. March 13, 2026 View Details Trump administration sues California to block its 2035 zero-emission vehicle mandate as gas prices spike nationwide from the Iran war. March 13, 2026 View Details Fourth Circuit becomes first federal appeals court to uphold a state ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, citing last year’s Supreme Court transgender ruling 70 times. March 13, 2026 View Details Arbitrator orders Social Security to restore telework after ruling the agency’s indefinite suspension was a “clear and patent breach” of its union contract. March 12, 2026 View Details Costco member sues for tariff refunds on behalf of all customers in one of at least five class actions demanding companies share the estimated $170 billion in repayments. March 12, 2026 View Details Trump personally ordered the Justice Department to reverse its decision to drop unconstitutional sanctions against four law firms after learning about it from a news report. March 12, 2026 View Details Justice Department appeals order that blocked it from searching a Washington Post reporter’s devices, arguing journalists deserve no special protection from government searches. March 12, 2026 View Details Texas excludes every Islamic school from its $1 billion voucher program while approving Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools, prompting a religious discrimination lawsuit. March 12, 2026 View Details Federal judge halts construction of Maryland ICE detention center for 1,500, ruling the state will likely succeed in its challenge that DHS skipped environmental review. March 12, 2026 View Details Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income. March 12, 2026 View Details Federal judges decline to retain interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel in Milwaukee after Sen. Baldwin called the former Republican AG a “clearly partisan actor.” March 11, 2026 View Details D.C. Bar files ethics complaint against DOJ Pardons Attorney Ed Martin for threatening Georgetown Law over DEI, then trying to derail his own disciplinary investigation. March 11, 2026 View Details Smartmatic calls DOJ bribery case political retaliation, noting the administration dropped other foreign bribery prosecutions as policy while pursuing this one. March 11, 2026 View Details Second federal judge in one week restricts Portland ICE agents’ use of tear gas, this time protecting nonviolent protesters and journalists with class-action status. March 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks DOJ rule that would have automatically dismissed most immigration appeals within 10 days, calling it devoid of “meaningful consideration.” March 10, 2026 View Details Justice Jackson publicly criticizes Supreme Court’s emergency rulings favoring Trump, saying the shadow docket is “not serving the court or this country well.” March 10, 2026 View Details Justice Department settles with Live Nation mid-trial without telling 28 state co-plaintiffs or the judge, who calls it “absolute disrespect for the court.” March 10, 2026 View Details Anthropic sues over a dozen federal agencies and Pentagon leaders, calling its blacklisting for refusing to allow autonomous weapons and mass surveillance unconstitutional retaliation. March 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge disqualifies all three leaders of New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, ruling they were installed to circumvent Senate confirmation after Habba was barred. March 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders ICE to justify arrest of Nashville journalist who covered immigration raids the day before she was detained, after attorneys call crumpled, unserved warrant unconstitutional. March 9, 2026 View Details Federal judge voids 1,400 layoffs at Voice of America, ruling Kari Lake unlawfully ran the agency through an unconstitutional appointment. March 8, 2026 View Details CBP tells judge it cannot comply with order to begin $166 billion in illegal tariff refunds to 330,000 importers, asks for 45 days to build a system. March 7, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders Portland ICE officers to stop using tear gas after chemicals from their facility seeped into a nearby apartment building housing seniors, veterans, and disabled tenants. March 7, 2026 View Details Florida Bar says it “erroneously” told a watchdog group it was investigating Trump’s former personal lawyer after two federal judges ruled her appointment as U.S. attorney unconstitutional. March 7, 2026 View Details Newly released footage shows a 23-year-old U.S. citizen was driving slowly with brake lights on in Texas last March before an immigration agent shot him through his car window. March 7, 2026 View Details DOJ lawyer tells federal judge that RFK Jr.’s vaccine authority is “unreviewable,” including the hypothetical power to recommend Americans get measles instead of a vaccine. March 6, 2026 View Details Minnesota U.S. Attorney Rosen faces second contempt hearing in a week after judges find ICE lost immigrants’ property and ignored release orders across dozens of cases. March 6, 2026 View Details SEC settles fraud case for $10 million with crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, the top buyer of Trump’s World Liberty Financial token, after alleging $31 million in fraudulent trades. March 6, 2026 View Details Twenty-four state attorneys general file first legal challenge to Trump’s new 10% global tariffs, arguing he is sidestepping the Supreme Court’s rejection of his earlier tariffs. March 6, 2026 View Details Florida Bar investigates Trump’s former personal lawyer after two federal judges ruled her appointment as U.S. attorney unconstitutional and she continued using the title in defiance of court orders. March 6, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders $130 billion refund on illegal tariffs to importers who already passed the costs to consumers. March 5, 2026 View Details Virginia Supreme Court clears way for redistricting referendum a second time, allowing early voting to begin Friday despite Republican legal challenges. March 5, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules Trump’s effort to kill NYC congestion pricing unlawful, calling administration’s decision-making “arbitrary and capricious” in 149-page ruling. March 4, 2026 View Details New Jersey federal judge orders ICE agents to acknowledge court orders in writing under penalty of perjury after finding 17 violations in three months. March 4, 2026 View Details DOJ revives appeals against law firms one day after dropping them, as targeted firms argue court should reject the unexplained reversal. March 4, 2026 View Details Georgia jury convicts father of Apalachee High School shooter who bought son an AR-style rifle after deputies warned of possible attack threats. March 4, 2026 View Details FBI Director Patel fired a dozen counterintelligence staffers with Iran expertise days before strikes began, retaliating for their work on the Mar-a-Lago investigation. March 3, 2026 View Details ProPublica sues Education Department for hiding civil rights records as open discrimination investigations nearly doubled to 24,000 under Secretary McMahon. March 3, 2026 View Details Trump administration abandons appeals against four law firms it targeted for opposing the president, after four separate judges ruled the executive orders unconstitutional. March 3, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks DHS detention visit policy for the third time as Noem keeps rewriting the same restriction to evade prior rulings. March 3, 2026 View Details Supreme Court preserves New York City’s only Republican congressional district after Justice Alito calls state court’s minority voting rights remedy “unadorned racial discrimination.” March 3, 2026 View Details Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket. March 3, 2026 View Details Mistakenly deported Babson College student refuses government flight from Honduras after learning feds plan to detain and re-deport her upon arrival. February 28, 2026 View Details Federal judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Minnesota refugees, calls administration policy a “dystopian nightmare.” February 28, 2026 View Details Department of the Treasury terminates collective bargaining agreements at IRS and Bureau of Fiscal Service, cancels all ongoing negotiations and arbitrations. February 28, 2026 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end Temporary Protected Status for Syrian nationals, accusing lower courts of “persistent disregard” for the court’s prior rulings on TPS terminations. February 27, 2026 View Details Federal Reserve challenges Jeanine Pirro’s subpoenas in sealed court proceedings, seeking to block the criminal probe Powell calls pretext for Trump’s campaign to control interest rates. February 27, 2026 View Details Judge rules California must let 20,000 immigrant truck drivers keep their licenses despite Trump administration threats to revoke the state’s authority to issue commercial licenses entirely. February 27, 2026 View Details Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks judge to toss smuggling charges as vindictive after unsealed records suggest DOJ leadership directed prosecution because he won his wrongful deportation case. February 27, 2026 View Details Judge allows Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom construction to continue, ruling the legal challenge was insufficient while calling the private funding mechanism a “Rube Goldberg” arrangement. February 27, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules IRS violated the law 42,695 times by disclosing confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE through an automated system that matched names and Social Security numbers in bulk. February 27, 2026 View Details Chief Judge Schiltz warns Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor and ICE they face criminal contempt after review finds 97 order violations in original cases and 113 more in 77 new cases since January. February 27, 2026 View Details Treasury blocks Venezuela from paying Maduro’s legal fees less than three hours after approving them, lawyer says move violates Sixth Amendment right to counsel. February 26, 2026 View Details DOJ tells court the $608M federal reimbursement Florida counted on for its Everglades detention facility won’t cover construction costs and may not materialize at all. February 26, 2026 View Details Supreme Court unanimously rejects GEO Group’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit alleging its Aurora immigration detainees were forced to work for $1 a day, sending the case back for trial. February 26, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules Trump’s policy of deporting immigrants to countries they have no connection to is illegal, ordering notice and the chance to challenge removals before they happen. February 26, 2026 View Details Texas grand jury declines to indict ICE agent who fatally shot 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Martinez on South Padre Island, days after the only passenger who contradicted the government’s account died in a car crash. February 26, 2026 View Details Federal judiciary asks Congress to take courthouse control from GSA after DOGE cuts eliminated nearly half the agency’s staff, leaving buildings with collapsing ceilings and contaminated water. February 25, 2026 View Details Fifteen states sue HHS and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over revised childhood vaccine schedule that cut recommended immunizations from 17 diseases to 11 without scientific review. February 25, 2026 View Details Legal advocates seek court order to stop CBP from pressuring unaccompanied immigrant children to self-deport before reaching shelters where federal law guarantees them attorneys and judges. February 25, 2026 View Details Appeals court allows IRS to continue sharing immigrant taxpayer data with ICE, months after the agency erroneously shared thousands of records beyond the agreement’s scope. February 25, 2026 View Details Judge bars DOJ from reviewing seized Washington Post reporter’s data, ordering independent judicial review after prosecutors failed to disclose law protecting journalists. February 25, 2026 View Details Pentagon appeals ruling that blocked Hegseth from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for video calling on troops to resist unlawful orders, after grand jury declined to indict. February 25, 2026 View Details Supreme Court rules 5-4 that USPS cannot be sued for intentionally failing to deliver mail, sending Black landlord’s racial harassment case back to lower courts. February 25, 2026 View Details Trump-appointed judge holds administration in civil contempt after ICE transferred a detainee to Texas in defiance of a court order, then released him without his belongings. February 24, 2026 View Details Maryland attorney general sues to block ICE from converting a $102 million warehouse into a 1,500 person detention facility in a town of 2,000 without environmental review or public input. February 24, 2026 View Details FedEx becomes first major company to sue for refund of Trump’s tariffs after Supreme Court ruled them illegal, joining Costco and others with pending claims. February 24, 2026 View Details Federal judges reject Republican effort to restore a congressional map that split Salt Lake County four ways after voters created an independent redistricting commission. February 24, 2026 View Details Trump settles copyright lawsuit with Isaac Hayes estate over unauthorized use of “Hold On, I’m Coming” at least 133 times at campaign rallies. February 24, 2026 View Details Judge Cannon blocks public release of Jack Smith’s classified documents report, citing her own 2024 ruling that his appointment was unconstitutional. February 24, 2026 View Details EU demands United States honor July trade agreement after Trump raises global tariff from 10% to 15% in response to Supreme Court ruling blocking his emergency tariffs. February 23, 2026 View Details Federal judge seizes control of Arizona’s entire prison health care system after 14 years of litigation, two contempt findings and 131 of 154 court-ordered health standards violated, covering at least 25,000 incarcerated people. February 22, 2026 View Details JPMorgan admits for the first time that it closed Trump’s bank accounts after the Jan. 6 attack, as his $5 billion lawsuit alleges the bank also placed him on a reputational blacklist shared across the industry. February 22, 2026 View Details Maxwell challenges Epstein transparency law as unconstitutional to block 90,000 pages of depositions and private records from Giuffre’s civil defamation lawsuit against her. February 22, 2026 View Details Trump raises global tariffs to 15%, the maximum allowed under a separate trade law, one day after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariff powers 6-3. February 22, 2026 View Details Federal judge rebukes Justice Department for concealing a press freedom law when seeking a warrant to raid Washington Post reporter’s home, seizing her phone, computers and records. February 21, 2026 View Details Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously strikes down the state’s charter school law, ruling it violates the constitutional requirement for a common school system overseen by elected boards. February 21, 2026 View Details Appeals court allows Trump administration to halt reinstallation of Philadelphia slavery exhibit one day after panels honoring nine people enslaved by George Washington were restored. February 21, 2026 View Details Deputy AG Blanche fires court-appointed U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia hours after federal judges unanimously selected him, the third such firing in seven months. February 21, 2026 View Details Gov. Spanberger signs Virginia Democrats’ proposed congressional map favoring 10 of 11 seats, sending it to an April referendum still blocked by a state court judge. February 21, 2026 View Details Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional. February 21, 2026 View Details Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariff authority 6-3, ruling the law he used to impose duties on nearly every country does not authorize tariffs; Trump announces new 10% global tariff hours later. February 21, 2026 View Details Federal judge accuses Trump administration of “terror” against immigrants and violence against its own citizens, finding DHS violated her order to end mandatory detention nationwide. February 20, 2026 View Details Federal judge holds government attorney in civil contempt with $500 daily fines after ICE released detained Minnesota man in Texas without his identification documents. February 19, 2026 View Details Justice Department admits to violating more than 50 court orders in New Jersey immigration cases, including 17 transfers of detainees after judges ruled they could not be moved. February 19, 2026 View Details Trump administration appeals order to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibits as judge sets Friday deadline and invokes Orwell’s 1984 in ruling. February 19, 2026 View Details Seventeen health and environmental groups sue EPA over repeal of the endangerment finding, the 2009 scientific framework that allowed regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. February 19, 2026 View Details Governor Moore signs law banning Maryland police from participating in ICE’s 287(g) program after finding the majority of those arrested by ICE in the state were never convicted of a crime. February 18, 2026 View Details Federal judge bars ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Ábrego García, ruling his detention was unconstitutional and dismissing administration threats to deport him to Africa as “empty.” February 18, 2026 View Details Six conservation groups sue Interior Secretary Burgum over removal of hundreds of exhibits on slavery, climate change, and Indigenous history from national parks. February 18, 2026 View Details NAACP and civil rights groups sue to prevent Trump administration from using Fulton County voter data seized by FBI to purge rolls or intimidate voters. February 17, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House in Philadelphia, quoting Orwell and comparing government to “Ministry of Truth.” February 17, 2026 View Details Trump administration secretly deports nine people to Cameroon despite most having court protections against removal, none of them from that country, shackled on a DHS flight from Louisiana. February 15, 2026 View Details Congressman Raskin confirms a whistleblower’s account of inhumane conditions at a Baltimore ICE facility after a surprise inspection found 55 detainees packed into a single room. February 14, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders ICE to allow Catholic priests into a Chicago-area detention facility for Ash Wednesday, ruling the agency violated religious freedom law by ending a decade of weekly visits. February 14, 2026 View Details Trump administration releases $30 million of $205 million in frozen funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project after two states sued and an appeals court upheld the order to pay. February 14, 2026 View Details ICE agents followed Minnesota protesters to their homes, shouted their addresses, aimed rifles at them and mocked the death of Renee Good, according to nearly 100 sworn statements filed in federal court. February 14, 2026 View Details Virginia Supreme Court allows Democrats to hold an April 21 special election on a proposed 10D-1R congressional map while a legal challenge to the redistricting effort continues. February 14, 2026 View Details ICE places two agents on administrative leave for lying under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one week after an agent killed Renee Good in the same city. February 14, 2026 View Details Two Washington golfers sue to block Trump’s overhaul of a century-old public golf course where crews are dumping White House demolition debris on historic parkland. February 14, 2026 View Details Affordable housing residents ask federal judge to restrict DHS chemical munitions near Portland ICE facility, saying tear gas seeping into units caused heart failure and breathing problems. February 14, 2026 View Details Don Lemon, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, and three activists plead not guilty to federal charges for protesting ICE enforcement at a St. Paul church. February 14, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders the government to fly deported Venezuelans back to the U.S. for court hearings, ruling the 137 men were denied due process before being sent to an El Salvador prison. February 13, 2026 View Details Columbia protest detainee Leqaa Kordia says she was chained to a hospital bed for 72 hours after a seizure, nearly a year into detention without criminal charges. February 13, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders ICE to stop blocking thousands of Minnesota detainees from contacting attorneys, calling the agency’s claim it provided access “threadbare” and unsupported by evidence. February 13, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks $600 million in public health funding cuts targeting four Democratic states, finding the grants were likely rescinded to retaliate against immigration enforcement opposition. February 13, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules Defense Secretary Hegseth violated the First Amendment by censuring Senator Mark Kelly over a video telling troops they can refuse illegal orders. February 13, 2026 View Details U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro sues her hometown of Rye, New York, and Con Edison for $250,000 after tripping over a wooden block in the street. February 13, 2026 View Details Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells. February 12, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from transferring Biden-commuted death row inmates to supermax prison, ruling the transfer process “cannot be a sham.” February 12, 2026 View Details DOJ fires a U.S. attorney hours after federal judges appointed him in Albany, with Deputy AG Blanche announcing on X: “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.” February 12, 2026 View Details California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota sue to block $600 million in CDC public health funding cuts the states say are driven by political retaliation over immigration enforcement disagreements. February 12, 2026 View Details IRS improperly shared confidential tax data of thousands of immigrants with DHS, breaching legal protections courts had already ruled violated taxpayers’ rights. February 12, 2026 View Details Federal Judicial Center removes 90-page climate science chapter from official reference manual for U.S. judges after Republican attorneys general call it biased. February 11, 2026 View Details Trump administration agrees not to withhold K-12 school funding over DEI programs after 19 state attorneys general sue. February 11, 2026 View Details Trump-appointed federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking Michigan voters’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth and driver’s license numbers. February 11, 2026 View Details Grand jury refuses to indict six Democratic lawmakers after Trump’s U.S. attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro sought sedition charges over a video reminding service members they can reject unlawful orders. February 11, 2026 View Details Appeals court rules the government can move forward with deporting more than 60,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, overriding a judge who found the decision was racially motivated and “preordained.” February 10, 2026 View Details Immigration court terminates the government’s attempt to deport Tufts Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk, ruling the administration failed to prove its case against the pro-Palestinian activist it arrested for co-authoring a student newspaper op-ed. February 10, 2026 View Details Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to dismiss Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction for defying a House subpoena to testify about the Capitol attack, after he already served his four-month sentence. February 10, 2026 View Details Federal officials denied seeking to expedite deportation of the Minneapolis family whose 5-year-old son Liam was photographed surrounded by immigration officers, after their lawyer called the proceedings “extraordinary” and possibly “retaliatory.” February 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks California’s mask ban for immigration officers because it excluded state police, but upholds visible badge requirement for all non-uniformed law enforcement. February 10, 2026 View Details ICE’s chief counsel in Minnesota retired Friday as the U.S. Attorney admits his office is overwhelmed after losing more than a dozen veteran prosecutors to Operation Metro Surge litigation. February 8, 2026 View Details Fifth Circuit rules Trump can hold immigrants arrested anywhere in the U.S. without bond hearings, reversing decades of detention policy in a 2-1 decision. February 8, 2026 View Details Federal judge declares Texas anti-ESG law unconstitutional, ruling that its definition of “boycotting” fossil fuel companies was too broad and violated First Amendment protections. February 7, 2026 View Details Sen. Blackburn demands Chief Justice Roberts investigate Justice Jackson’s impartiality for attending the Grammys, where artists wore “ICE out” pins and criticized immigration enforcement. February 7, 2026 View Details Arizona judge permanently blocks genetic abnormality abortion ban, telemedicine restrictions, and mandatory waiting periods, ruling they violate the abortion rights amendment voters passed in 2024. February 7, 2026 View Details Trump administration filed for expedited deportation of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his family, but a judge granted a continuance allowing them to stay for now. February 7, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in child care and safety net funding to Colorado, California, New York, Minnesota, and Illinois after officials couldn’t provide evidence of fraud. February 7, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules Trump administration illegally deported three families previously separated at the border, finding agents used “lies, deception, and coercion,” and orders their return at government expense. February 7, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to unfreeze $16 billion for the Hudson River tunnel project, ruling that continued delay would cause irreparable harm to New York and New Jersey. February 7, 2026 View Details Second federal judge blocks IRS from sharing taxpayer data with ICE, also ordering ICE to stop using address data it already received. February 6, 2026 View Details Virginia Democrats release congressional map proposing 10 of 11 districts favor their party, moving forward despite a court order halting the redistricting process. February 6, 2026 View Details Oregon, Washington and Native American tribes return to court after Trump killed a $1 billion Biden-era deal to recover endangered salmon runs on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. February 6, 2026 View Details Sen. Slotkin refuses DOJ interview over military “illegal orders” video, says investigation is retaliation after Trump called the video “seditious behavior, punishable by death.” February 6, 2026 View Details Judge orders Musk to sit for deposition over USAID shutdown, ruling he cannot claim high-ranking official protections because his role was informal. February 5, 2026 View Details FBI unable to access Washington Post reporter’s iPhone protected by Apple Lockdown Mode, but agents forced her to unlock laptop with fingerprint. February 5, 2026 View Details EEOC sues Nike for information on DEI programs after complaints allege systemic discrimination against white employees. February 5, 2026 View Details Fulton County asks federal court to return seized Georgia 2020 ballots as Trump repeats call to “take over” elections for third consecutive day. February 5, 2026 View Details Supreme Court declines to block California’s new congressional map, allowing Democrats to move forward with redistricting that could flip five GOP seats. February 5, 2026 View Details Judge Aileen Cannon sentences Ryan Routh to life in prison for 2024 assassination attempt against Trump at Florida golf course. February 5, 2026 View Details Homan orders 700 federal officers out of Minnesota, claims “unprecedented cooperation” nine weeks after operation that killed two civilians and drew 96 court order violations. February 5, 2026 View Details Federal judge halts warrantless ICE arrests in Oregon after agents testified they create warrants after detention and operate under daily quotas. February 5, 2026 View Details Justice Department pulls attorney who told judge “this job sucks” one day after her testimony revealed systemic breakdown in Minnesota immigration enforcement. February 5, 2026 View Details Government attorney tells federal judge “this job sucks” after being ordered to explain why DHS missed multiple deadlines to release five detainees who never should have been arrested. February 4, 2026 View Details Federal judge bars Homeland Security officers from using tear gas and projectile munitions on peaceful protesters outside Portland’s ICE building unless someone poses an imminent threat of physical harm. February 4, 2026 View Details Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard over antisemitism claims and calls for criminal charges after a federal judge blocked his $2.2 billion funding freeze in September. February 3, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules DHS likely broke the law by requiring lawmakers to give one week’s notice before visiting ICE detention facilities. February 3, 2026 View Details Gateway Development Commission sues Trump administration over $205 million in withheld funding, with 1,000 workers facing layoffs by Feb. 6. February 3, 2026 View Details D.C. U.S. Attorney Pirro threatens jail for anyone bringing a gun into Washington, the same day Trump called for nationalizing state elections. February 3, 2026 View Details Courts block all five Trump stop-work orders against offshore wind farms, handing the industry a clean sweep of legal victories over the administration. February 3, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending deportation protections for 350,000 Haitians one day before they were set to expire, citing racial animus by Noem. February 3, 2026 View Details Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify in House Epstein investigation after facing contempt charges for ignoring subpoenas issued six months ago. February 3, 2026 View Details Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father return to Minnesota two weeks after ICE detained the legal asylum seekers after the boy’s return from preschool. February 2, 2026 View Details Federal appeals judge dismisses DOJ misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg, ruling that even if he warned of a constitutional crisis at a Judicial Conference meeting, that would not violate ethics rules. February 1, 2026 View Details Federal judge denies Minnesota’s request to halt Operation Metro Surge but acknowledges “profound and even heartbreaking” consequences including two shootings by federal agents. February 1, 2026 View Details Utah governor signs bill expanding state Supreme Court from five to seven justices after legislature suffered court defeats on redistricting, abortion and school vouchers, giving him five of seven appointments. February 1, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father released from Texas detention center, calling their arrest part of “ill-conceived” deportation quota system. February 1, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules Energy Department violated federal law by forming secret climate group that met 18 times to produce report downplaying global warming. January 31, 2026 View Details Trump administration sues Virginia woman for $941,114 for failing to self-deport, part of a wave of litigation that has assessed over $6 billion in fines against 21,500 immigrants. January 31, 2026 View Details California’s top judge says ICE arrests at courthouses are scaring people away, with her office tracking activity at 17 courts as the state considers requiring formal reporting. January 31, 2026 View Details Federal judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring citizenship proof for voter registration, ruling the Constitution “does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures.” January 31, 2026 View Details Philadelphia seeks injunction to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House under Trump order, with judge calling federal position “a dangerous precedent.” January 31, 2026 View Details Appeals court affirms Noem illegally ended temporary protected status for Venezuelans and Haitians, finding “ample evidence of racial animus,” though Supreme Court stay keeps termination in effect for now. January 30, 2026 View Details Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization sue the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over tax records leaked to ProPublica and the New York Times. January 30, 2026 View Details Federal judge calls Bondi’s posting of protester arrest photos “deeply disturbing,” refuses to protect anonymous ICE agents whose identities prosecutors won’t reveal. January 29, 2026 View Details Federal Reserve holds rates steady as Powell calls Supreme Court case over Trump’s attempt to fire Governor Cook “perhaps the most important” in Fed’s 113-year history. January 29, 2026 View Details Minnesota’s chief federal judge cancels contempt hearing for ICE chief after agency releases wrongly detained man, but warns of 96 violated court orders: “ICE is not a law unto itself.” January 29, 2026 View Details Detainees at Florida Everglades detention center testify calls were dropped when they asked about attorneys, had to use soap to write down phone numbers. January 29, 2026 View Details FBI seizes 2020 election ballots from Fulton County warehouse after judge previously denied White House lawsuit seeking same records. January 29, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks detention of Minnesota refugees under Operation PARRIS, orders those moved out of state returned within five days. January 29, 2026 View Details Families of two Trinidadian men killed in U.S. boat strike sue Trump administration for wrongful death, calling the Caribbean attacks “extrajudicial killings”. January 28, 2026 View Details Texas AG Paxton sues Delaware nurse practitioner for prescribing abortion medication to Texans, second lawsuit testing state shield laws protecting out-of-state providers. January 28, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders acting ICE director to appear in court after agency failed to comply with “dozens of court orders,” but administration releases detainee to avoid contempt. January 28, 2026 View Details Federal judge bars ICE from deporting or transferring 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his Ecuadorian father from Texas, citing their pending immigration cases. January 28, 2026 View Details Federal judge allows nearly complete Massachusetts offshore wind project to resume construction, fourth of five to win court challenge against Trump administration’s December national security freeze. January 28, 2026 View Details Virginia judge strikes down Democratic redistricting amendment headed for April ballot, ruling legislature violated its own rules and constitutional requirements during 2024 special session. January 28, 2026 View Details Federal appeals court declines to reimpose limits on immigration agents at Minnesota protests after ACLU emergency request following Pretti killing, with ruling making no mention of the shooting. January 27, 2026 View Details Federal appeals court declines to reconsider ruling that Trump’s personal attorney was unlawfully appointed as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, clearing path for Supreme Court fight. January 27, 2026 View Details Third federal judge rejects Justice Department voter data lawsuit, dismissing Oregon case after finding request lacked legal basis under Civil Rights Act. January 27, 2026 View Details Trump calls lawsuit challenging $400 million White House ballroom “ridiculous,” claims construction has gone too far to stop and reveals project has “Top Secret” military and Secret Service involvement. January 26, 2026 View Details Federal judge bars Trump administration from destroying evidence in Alex Pretti shooting after Minnesota investigators were blocked from crime scene despite having a warrant. January 26, 2026 View Details Minnesota activates National Guard after Hennepin County request; Minneapolis to file restraining order Monday seeking to halt crackdown and remove federal agents. January 25, 2026 View Details Judge blocks Trump administration from ending deportation protections for 4,000 Myanmar nationals, ruling decision lacked “genuine basis” and ignored country conditions. January 24, 2026 View Details Judge extends order requiring Trump administration to keep funding child care subsidies in five states after HHS cited fraud concerns based on right-wing influencer video. January 24, 2026 View Details Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit demanding Georgia voter rolls, ruling the department filed in the wrong court; DOJ has sued more than a dozen states for voter data. January 24, 2026 View Details California sues to block restart of pipeline that caused 2015 Refugio oil spill after federal agency reclassified it as “interstate” to bypass state control. January 24, 2026 View Details Federal judge questions Trump’s authority to build $400 million White House ballroom, snapping “Come on. Be serious” when DOJ compared it to adding a tennis pavilion. January 23, 2026 View Details Trump sues JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion over 2021 account closures, filing on the same day former special counsel Jack Smith testifies publicly for the first time. January 23, 2026 View Details Five Democratic states ask judge to block Trump administration from withholding child care funding; HHS claimed fraud without evidence while demanding recipients’ Social Security numbers. January 23, 2026 View Details Reagan-appointed judge rules pro-Palestinian academics can seek court relief if immigration status changed as retribution, says Noem and Rubio engaged in “unconstitutional conspiracy.” January 23, 2026 View Details Former special counsel Jack Smith told Congress he developed “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump committed crimes in the Jan. 6 and classified documents cases, and would prosecute again on the same facts. January 23, 2026 View Details Former Des Moines superintendent Ian Roberts pleads guilty to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegal firearms possession, four months after ICE detained him in his school-issued vehicle. January 23, 2026 View Details Eighth Circuit lifts injunction that barred ICE from tear gassing and detaining peaceful protesters in Minneapolis, restoring agents’ authority to use force. January 22, 2026 View Details Fourth Circuit upholds Maryland law banning guns in schools, parks, government buildings and near protests, strikes down restriction on private property open to public. January 22, 2026 View Details Trump administration drops appeal of ruling that blocked DEI memos threatening to pull funding from universities and K-12 schools. January 22, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders government to stop searching Washington Post reporter’s seized devices, calls hearing on whether FBI must return them. January 22, 2026 View Details New York judge orders Staten Island’s congressional district redrawn by Feb. 6, potentially pairing the conservative borough with liberal lower Manhattan. January 22, 2026 View Details University of Pennsylvania refuses federal demand for lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling the request “unconstitutional” and citing history of governmental persecution of Jews. January 21, 2026 View Details DOJ filing reveals DOGE operatives at Social Security likely violated court order, shared data via unapproved server, and coordinated with group seeking to overturn election results. January 21, 2026 View Details DOJ serves grand jury subpoenas to six Minnesota government offices, including Gov. Walz and two mayors, in federal obstruction investigation over ICE resistance. January 21, 2026 View Details Fed Chair Powell will attend Supreme Court arguments Wednesday in the case challenging Trump’s power to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, an unusual move as Powell himself faces a DOJ criminal probe. January 20, 2026 View Details Judge refuses to block DHS policy requiring seven-day notice for congressional visits to ICE facilities, though she stressed she was not ruling the policy lawful. January 20, 2026 View Details Trump threatens to sue JPMorgan Chase for “debanking” him after January 6, calling the Capitol riot “a protest that turned out to be correct.” January 19, 2026 View Details Noem denied federal agents used chemical agents on Minnesota protesters, then backtracked after CBS showed video the judge had called “uncontroverted” evidence. January 19, 2026 View Details Michael Cohen says he felt “pressured and coerced” by Manhattan prosecutors to provide testimony against Trump, accusing DA Bragg and AG James of blurring justice and politics. January 18, 2026 View Details White House told CBS to air Trump interview unedited or “we will sue your ass off,” weeks after network settled prior Trump lawsuit for $16 million. January 18, 2026 View Details Federal judge issues restraining order banning ICE agents from retaliating against, arresting, or using chemical irritants against peaceful protesters in Minnesota. January 17, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules TSA “plainly” violated court order by trying to strip airport screeners of union rights through a second memo after the first was blocked last year. January 17, 2026 View Details Federal judge gives Trump administration 21 days to return deported college student to the U.S. after government lawyer apologized for violating court order that should have prevented her removal. January 17, 2026 View Details Federal judge allows third offshore wind project to resume construction this week, rejecting Trump administration’s unspecified national security claims and citing “inconsistencies” in government evidence. January 17, 2026 View Details Trump appointed the architect he hired to design the White House ballroom to the Commission of Fine Arts, which will now review and approve the $400 million project. January 17, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders release of Bolivian asylum seeker held 11 months after immigration judge ruled in his favor, as ICE sought third-party countries to deport him. January 16, 2026 View Details California becomes second state in two days to defeat DOJ demand for unredacted voter registration data, as federal judges cite privacy violations. January 16, 2026 View Details Federal judge dismisses Trump DOJ lawsuit against Oregon for refusing to hand over voter registration data including birth dates, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers. January 15, 2026 View Details Supreme Court rules 7-2 that GOP Rep. Mike Bost can challenge Illinois law allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted up to two weeks later. January 15, 2026 View Details Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans. January 15, 2026 View Details Newsom signals California will block Louisiana’s extradition request for doctor indicted on felony charges for mailing abortion pills, saying state “will not be complicit.” January 15, 2026 View Details Federal judges uphold California’s Prop 50 congressional maps 2-1, rejecting claim that Democrat-favoring lines drawn to counter Texas gerrymandering violated Voting Rights Act. January 15, 2026 View Details Justice Department apologizes for “mistake” in deporting Massachusetts college student despite court order, but argues error should not affect her case or require her return. January 15, 2026 View Details Trump nominates WeatherTech founder David MacNeil to Federal Trade Commission seat left vacant after he fired both Democratic commissioners in March, triggering pending Supreme Court case. January 14, 2026 View Details Rubio informs federal court U.S. has no way of locating 137 Venezuelans unlawfully deported under Alien Enemies Act, argues due process hearings would harm foreign policy interests. January 14, 2026 View Details Louisiana indicts California doctor for mailing abortion pills in 2023, asks governor to approve extradition warrant despite California shield law protecting providers from out-of-state prosecution. January 14, 2026 View Details Justice Department accuses Trump-appointed judge of “gross abuse of power” for questioning why Lindsey Halligan continues calling herself U.S. attorney after court ruled her appointment unconstitutional. January 14, 2026 View Details Sen. Mark Kelly sues Hegseth and Defense Dept. over attempt to demote him and cut retirement pay for video telling service members they can refuse unlawful orders. January 13, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders HHS to restore $12 million in grants to American Academy of Pediatrics, finding likely “retaliatory motive” for cuts after group criticized RFK Jr. January 13, 2026 View Details Plaintiffs seek emergency hearing after Noem secretly reinstated ICE visitor restrictions one day after Minneapolis shooting, blocking three House reps from facility Saturday. January 13, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders Energy Department to restore clean energy grants after administration admitted in court that blue-state location was “a primary reason” for cancellations. January 13, 2026 View Details Minnesota and Illinois sue Trump administration over ICE surge, seeking restraining order and alleging “federal invasion” after agent killed bystander observing enforcement last week. January 13, 2026 View Details Federal judge restores construction on 87% complete Rhode Island wind farm, finding Trump administration’s classified national security argument “insufficient” to justify December pause. January 13, 2026 View Details DHS issues new policy requiring 7-day notice for congressional ICE visits, using OBBBA funding to bypass December court order that blocked identical restriction. January 12, 2026 View Details Three Minnesota members of Congress kicked out of ICE facility 30 minutes after being admitted, two days after Noem issued new directive defying court ruling on oversight visits. January 11, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump plan to revoke legal status for 10,000+ immigrants, ruling administration failed to properly notify those affected. January 11, 2026 View Details New York sues Trump administration over freeze on two offshore wind projects already under construction, citing need to power 1 million homes. January 11, 2026 View Details Jim Jordan commits to public hearing for Jack Smith after 8-hour closed-door session failed to produce damaging testimony; Smith’s lawyers had requested open forum for months. January 10, 2026 View Details Court forces Trump budget director to fund Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with $145 million after 11-month battle pushed agency toward insolvency. January 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge signals temporary block on Trump plan to end family reunification parole for 10,000 immigrants, five days before termination deadline. January 10, 2026 View Details Judge blocks Trump’s $10 billion child care funding freeze in five Democratic states, ordered after viral video targeting Minnesota’s Somali community was found largely untrue. January 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge permanently blocks Trump executive order requiring proof of citizenship and Election Day ballot receipt, ruling president lacks authority over elections. January 10, 2026 View Details Federal judge disqualifies fifth Trump-appointed acting U.S. attorney, ruling John Sarcone’s appointment to prosecute Letitia James was “unlawful” DOJ workaround. January 9, 2026 View Details Federal judge blocks Head Start anti-DEI requirements after HHS demanded providers exclude 197 terms from applications including “Black,” “disability,” “tribal,” and “mental health.” January 9, 2026 View Details Colorado AG accuses Trump of “revenge campaign” against state, updating Space Command lawsuit to include terminated transportation funds, SNAP threats, and denied disaster relief. January 9, 2026 View Details Five states sue Trump administration for freezing $10 billion in childcare and family assistance funds, calling fraud justification “vindictive” and unconstitutional. January 9, 2026 View Details Arizona Supreme Court rejects Republican Cochise County supervisor’s immunity claim in felony case for refusing to certify 2022 election results. January 8, 2026 View Details Nonprofit sues Trump administration for refusing to say whether asbestos was removed before rapid demolition of East Wing for planned $400 million ballroom. January 8, 2026 View Details ICE releases woman detained for nearly a month after stop at Baltimore Taco Bell, with attorneys and agency still disputing whether she is a US citizen born in Maryland. January 8, 2026 View Details Trump demands Fulton County pay $6.2 million in legal fees under Georgia law passed last year specifically for his election interference case. January 8, 2026 View Details Federal judge orders Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why calling herself US Attorney “does not constitute a false or misleading statement” after prior ruling found her unlawfully appointed. January 7, 2026 View Details Former Arizona GOP lawmaker and Turning Point Action director sentenced for forging nominating signatures, including a dead woman’s, after campaigning against election fraud. January 7, 2026 View Details Wyoming Supreme Court rules abortion bans unconstitutional, citing 2012 amendment passed to rebuke Obamacare that protects healthcare decisions. January 7, 2026 View Details DOJ tells court less than 1% of Epstein files released 17 days past deadline, with 2 million documents under review and 1 million more “recently identified.” January 6, 2026 View Details Federal judge rules ICE can use Medicaid enrollment data to locate undocumented immigrants for deportation, lifting injunction 20 Democratic attorneys general won in July. January 6, 2026 View Details Maduro pleads not guilty in Manhattan federal court, declares “I am a prisoner of war” as attorney challenges legality of military abduction. January 6, 2026 View Details Milwaukee judge resigns after jury convicts her of felony obstruction for helping defendant evade ICE agents in her courtroom. January 4, 2026 View Details Danish energy company Ørsted files legal challenge over Trump’s suspension of Revolution Wind project that is 85% complete with all federal permits secured since 2023. January 3, 2026 View Details Louisiana will use existing congressional map with two majority-Black districts in 2026 after Supreme Court failed to rule in time for Republicans to redraw boundaries. January 3, 2026 View Details Ninth Circuit strikes down California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in counties with more than 200,000 residents, ruling state failed to prove law consistent with historical tradition of gun regulation. January 3, 2026 View Details Trump moves to reconstitute Commission of Fine Arts with loyalists months after firing all six Biden holdovers, as panel faces reviews of his ballroom and triumphal arch. January 2, 2026 View Details Federal judge vacates Noem’s termination of temporary protected status for 60,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, ruling the decision was “preordained” and motivated by racial animus. January 1, 2026 View Details Ninth Circuit orders California National Guard returned to Governor Newsom’s control after DOJ withdrew its motion for a stay, ending seven months of federalization that began with LA immigration raids. January 1, 2026 View Details Federal appeals court allows Medicaid funding cuts to Planned Parenthood to continue while 21-state lawsuit proceeds, one week after Maine Family Planning shut down and dropped its case. January 1, 2026 View Details Montana Supreme Court dismisses 41-count ethics case against Attorney General Austin Knudsen, ruling that years of public litigation were sufficient sanction for his nearly year-long defiance of a court order. January 1, 2026 View Details Trump pulls National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland one week after Supreme Court rejected his request to maintain troop deployment in Illinois. January 1, 2026 View Details Dominion Energy sues Trump administration over stop-work order on $11.2 billion Virginia offshore wind project, calling the national security pause “arbitrary and capricious” after spending $8.9 billion. December 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues administrative stay blocking Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for 232 South Sudanese nationals while lawsuit proceeds. December 31, 2025 View Details California delays revoking 17,000 immigrant commercial driver’s licenses until March after lawsuit, as Transportation Secretary threatens $160 million funding cut over January 5 deadline. December 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to fund Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, calling its claim that it cannot seek money a “transparent attempt” to circumvent earlier shutdown order. December 31, 2025 View Details ICE says it won’t re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia while judge’s order stands, as unsealed documents show DOJ leadership called his prosecution a “top priority” after Supreme Court loss. December 31, 2025 View Details Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) appeals partial denial of motion to dismiss assault charges from May ICE detention facility visit, citing selective prosecution and legislative immunity. December 30, 2025 View Details Federal judge dismisses with prejudice assault charges against TikTok streamer shot by ICE agent, citing constitutional violations including denied access to counsel and late release of body camera footage. December 30, 2025 View Details Office of Special Counsel resumes Hatch Act enforcement against former federal employees after Merit Systems Protection Board affirms jurisdiction, following April pause. December 30, 2025 View Details Justice Department sues Virginia over in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants, third such lawsuit after California and Illinois cases this fall. December 30, 2025 View Details Trump threatens to sue Fed Chair Powell for “gross incompetence” over headquarters renovation project, says he will announce replacement in January. December 30, 2025 View Details Trump claims tariffs have produced “no inflation” despite November data showing food prices up 2.6% annually, as Supreme Court weighs legality of his trade policy. December 28, 2025 View Details Trump previews marble armrests for Kennedy Center, calling them “unlike anything ever done or seen before,” while lawsuit challenges disputed unanimous vote to add his name. December 28, 2025 View Details HHS refers Seattle Children’s Hospital to inspector general over transgender youth care, the administration’s third action against the facility after a failed subpoena and stripped NIH grants. December 27, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants at Northern California courthouses, ruling the practice forces asylum seekers to choose between detention and deportation. December 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks detention of anti-hate researcher Imran Ahmed, one of five visa holders targeted this month, after permanent resident with American family sued Rubio and Bondi. December 26, 2025 View Details National Capital Planning Commission schedules January review of Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom after federal judge ordered administration to undergo review process. December 26, 2025 View Details ACLU says DHS appeals bond orders in “hundreds of cases” to keep asylum seekers with pending claims detained, citing Wisconsin man held 200 days despite no criminal record. December 25, 2025 View Details American Academy of Pediatrics sues Trump administration claiming $12 million in grant cuts retaliated against its criticism of Kennedy’s vaccine policy changes. December 25, 2025 View Details New Jersey man files second lawsuit seeking NYPD records from Bloomberg-era Muslim surveillance program that infiltrated mosques and student groups but never generated a single terrorism lead. December 24, 2025 View Details Supreme Court rules against Trump’s National Guard deployment in Illinois, finding he failed to show military couldn’t execute federal law, with Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissenting. December 24, 2025 View Details Oregon leads 19 states and DC in suing HHS over Kennedy’s declaration threatening to exclude gender-affirming care providers from Medicare and Medicaid. December 24, 2025 View Details Federal judge upholds Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, rejecting U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawsuit challenging the September proclamation. December 24, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed federal judge orders administration to restore $233 million in disaster funding after 12 attorneys general sued over cuts tied to immigration enforcement. December 24, 2025 View Details Judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Kilmar Abrego Garcia through New Year, tells DOJ the emergency leading to her restraining order was “of your own making.” December 23, 2025 View Details Former CIA Director John Brennan asks chief judge to block DOJ from steering his case to Fort Pierce division, where Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump’s classified documents case, is the only judge. December 23, 2025 View Details Twenty-one states and DC sue to block Trump from defunding Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has returned $21 billion to consumers since 2011. December 23, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to return 137 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison or give them hearings, ruling that U.S. denied their due process rights. December 23, 2025 View Details DOJ sues District of Columbia over AR-15 restrictions months after deploying National Guard to fight crime, naming no individual plaintiffs claiming their rights were violated. December 23, 2025 View Details Judge orders release of immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra on $5,000 bond after ruling DHS failed to justify nine months of detention. December 22, 2025 View Details Immigrants in remote Alaska fishing town face deportation after state DMV erroneously registered them to vote, despite state admitting fault and apologizing. December 21, 2025 View Details University of Kentucky law professor challenging use of IHRA antisemitism definition after removal from classroom; university’s investigator is Project 2025 contributor. December 20, 2025 View Details DOJ appeals ruling that dismissed Comey and James prosecutions after judge found Trump’s personal attorney, with no prosecutorial experience, was illegally appointed to bring charges. December 20, 2025 View Details Army lawyer fired as immigration judge after five weeks for granting asylum in 6 of 11 cases, as administration sends military attorneys to serve as “Deportation Judges.” December 20, 2025 View Details Supreme Court rejects Trump request to block case challenging policy that bars immigration judges from speaking publicly about immigration. December 20, 2025 View Details Texas judge unseals Ken Paxton divorce records as media argued his finances, central to repeated corruption allegations, are a matter of public interest. December 20, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders special elections for Mississippi Supreme Court after ruling electoral map violates Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voter power. December 20, 2025 View Details Antioch, California agrees to police reforms including independent review board after scandal that sent three officers to prison for excessive force and falsifying reports. December 20, 2025 View Details Trump administration appeals ruling that restored $2.7 billion in frozen research funding to Harvard, two days before deadline expired. December 19, 2025 View Details Judge dismisses challenge to Miami Dade College gifting $67 million downtown lot for Trump presidential library after board redid vote at four-hour public meeting. December 19, 2025 View Details Court filings reveal Florida has received no federal reimbursement for Everglades immigration detention facility despite DeSantis claiming taxpayers “are not on the hook.” December 19, 2025 View Details Jury convicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan of felony for leading man through courthouse side door after ICE agents arrived to arrest him in April. December 19, 2025 View Details Judge signals White House ballroom construction will continue as Trump raises price tag to $400 million and thanks judge at Hanukkah event. December 18, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court allows National Guard to remain in D.C. while judges review legality of Trump’s crime emergency deployment. December 18, 2025 View Details DOJ tells court targeting blue states for energy grant cuts is “constitutionally permissible” because partisanship “can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.” December 18, 2025 View Details HHS terminates seven grants to American Academy of Pediatrics, which is suing Kennedy over vaccine policy. December 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks DHS policy requiring seven-day notice for congressional visits to ICE detention facilities, calling it “contrary to law.” December 18, 2025 View Details Sixth Circuit rules 2-1 along party lines that Michigan’s conversion therapy ban violates Catholic charity’s free speech rights. December 18, 2025 View Details U.S. government admits Army pilots and air traffic controller failed in January collision that killed 67, as NTSB final report looms. December 18, 2025 View Details DOJ’s new Second Amendment section sues U.S. Virgin Islands over gun permit delays and requirements Supreme Court struck down years ago. December 18, 2025 View Details Jack Smith tells House Judiciary he had proof beyond reasonable doubt Trump broke law overturning 2020 election, but Jordan blocked public testimony. December 18, 2025 View Details Texas sues Samsung, LG, Sony, and two Chinese TV makers, alleging deceptive consent hides surveillance software that captures screenshots every half-second and sells viewing data. December 17, 2025 View Details Oklahoma Supreme Court permanently nullifies social studies standards requiring Bible teaching and 2020 election doubt, finding state board violated open meeting laws. December 17, 2025 View Details Sixteen states sue Trump administration for withholding $2.1 billion in EV charging funds Congress allocated under Biden’s infrastructure law. December 17, 2025 View Details Maine asks court to dismiss DOJ lawsuit demanding voter data including partial Social Security numbers, arguing request violates post-Watergate privacy law. December 16, 2025 View Details Wisconsin judge rules Trump attorneys Troupis and Roman will stand trial on felony forgery charges for roles in 2020 false electors scheme, despite federal pardons. December 16, 2025 View Details Former Instacart director sues company, alleging she was fired for running as Democrat after executives sought to curry favor with Trump administration. December 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Iranian bodybuilder detained five months by ICE without progress on deportation, one of thousands of habeas petitions challenging immigrant custody. December 16, 2025 View Details Trump sues BBC for $10 billion over edited Jan. 6 speech clip, adding to media lawsuits after settlements from CBS and ABC. December 16, 2025 View Details Trump administration claims national security requires White House ballroom construction to proceed, responding to lawsuit over East Wing demolition without congressional approval. December 16, 2025 View Details Coast Guard promises to return rescue helicopter to Newport after senator held up commandant’s confirmation, but door remains open for future ICE facility at Oregon coast site. December 14, 2025 View Details Ninth Circuit orders Trump to end California National Guard deployment in Los Angeles by Monday, ruling six-month military presence outlasted any emergency justification. December 14, 2025 View Details Delaware acting U.S. attorney resigns after Democratic senators decline to support her nomination, days after Third Circuit ruled Trump unlawfully installed New Jersey counterpart. December 14, 2025 View Details Justice Department ordered lawyers to “find” evidence UCLA tolerated antisemitism within one month to justify predetermined lawsuit, with career attorneys warning in internal memo the case was weak. December 13, 2025 View Details First Circuit reverses block on Trump law stripping Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, one week after a separate 22-state challenge secured a different injunction protecting those states. December 13, 2025 View Details Judge Xinis bars ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia during check-ins, one day after ordering his release following four months of detention. December 13, 2025 View Details National Trust for Historic Preservation sues to halt White House ballroom construction, arguing Trump demolished East Wing without legally required public review. December 13, 2025 View Details Justice Department asks appeals court to remove Judge Boasberg from Alien Enemies Act case, claiming “retaliation and harassment,” after he ordered testimony from whistleblower who disclosed ignored court orders. December 13, 2025 View Details House Oversight chair threatens contempt proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton if they refuse depositions in Epstein inquiry, hours after Democrats released photos of Clinton and Trump. December 13, 2025 View Details Justice Department appeals order requiring sign language interpreters at White House briefings, arguing Trump should not be forced to “share his platform” or compromise his “image.” December 13, 2025 View Details TSA announces it will dissolve union contract covering 47,000 airport screeners on Jan. 11, six months after federal judge blocked the agency’s first attempt. December 13, 2025 View Details House Democrats release 89 Epstein estate photos showing Trump, Clinton, Gates, and Prince Andrew, a week before DOJ must release investigation files. December 13, 2025 View Details Texas and Florida attorneys general sue FDA to restrict abortion pill mifepristone, challenging both the 2000 approval and a new generic version approved under Trump’s own administration. December 12, 2025 View Details Federal grand jury refuses for second time in seven days to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking DOJ’s third failed attempt to prosecute Trump’s political target. December 12, 2025 View Details House tables Trump impeachment resolution 237-140 after Democratic leaders vote “present,” citing lack of investigative process despite articles referencing Trump’s “punishable by DEATH” post about lawmakers. December 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore $3.6 billion in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding after 22 states sued, ruling Congress appropriated the money and “the government must follow the law.” December 12, 2025 View Details Trump claims to pardon Tina Peters for state election tampering conviction he has no constitutional authority over, as Colorado officials reject transfer and call it “a lawless act.” December 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after four months of detention, calling administration’s threats to deport him to African countries where he has no ties “misrepresentation to the court.” December 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks DHS rule criminalizing “unusual noise” near federal buildings after activists arrested or threatened for using megaphones on public sidewalks. December 11, 2025 View Details FBI spent years extraditing woman accused of smuggling aviation tech to Russia, now ICE wants to deport her to Belarus where US cannot get her back. December 11, 2025 View Details Third federal judge orders release of Epstein records in a week, granting DOJ request to unseal 2019 grand jury materials one day after Maxwell ruling. December 11, 2025 View Details Montana judge blocks school voucher program that required families to waive special education rights in exchange for funding that “often would not cover basic needs.” December 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump to end National Guard deployment in Los Angeles and return 4,000 troops to Newsom’s control, White House vows appeal. December 11, 2025 View Details Illinois bars ICE from within 1,000 feet of state courthouses, requires hospitals and daycares to develop enforcement response plans. December 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge grants DOJ request to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell records, second ruling in a week after Trump dropped opposition to Epstein files release. December 10, 2025 View Details Trump signed two mortgages seven weeks apart claiming each Florida property as primary residence, then rented both out, matching fraud claims he made against Lisa Cook and Letitia James. December 9, 2025 View Details Federal judge vacates Trump’s day-one wind energy ban as “arbitrary and capricious,” ending 11-month permitting freeze that blocked all offshore projects. December 9, 2025 View Details Federal judge dismisses Missouri lawsuit seeking to block citizen referendum before signatures were submitted, freezing Trump-requested redistricting map until voters decide. December 9, 2025 View Details Louisiana abruptly cancels Medicaid contracts with Aetna and UnitedHealthcare, giving 488,500 enrollees 23 days to transition before Jan. 1. December 9, 2025 View Details Judge orders DOJ attorney fired in March for objecting to El Salvador flights to testify in Noem contempt probe over defied court order. December 9, 2025 View Details Twelve FBI agents sue Patel and Bondi claiming they were fired in September for kneeling during 2020 George Floyd protests five years earlier. December 9, 2025 View Details Federal court denies Tina Peters release, two weeks after Colorado rejected Trump administration’s request to transfer election conspiracist to federal custody. December 9, 2025 View Details DeSantis declares CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organizations in executive order, following Texas move that CAIR is now suing as unconstitutional. December 9, 2025 View Details Judge blocks prosecutors from evidence in Comey case Saturday, ruling government likely violated Fourth Amendment by retaining lawyer’s computer data since 2017. December 7, 2025 View Details Former federal workers file class action over DEI purge, alleging administration compiled target lists in November 2024 and fired DHS workforce that was 72% women, 36% Black December 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump lacks legal authority to hold deportees at Guantánamo Bay, finding no prior administration used base for people deported from within U.S. December 6, 2025 View Details Three federal judges strike or annotate Halligan’s name from court filings after ruling she is not U.S. Attorney, as prosecutors say they have “no guidance” from DOJ. December 6, 2025 View Details Judge rules Epstein transparency law overrides grand jury secrecy, clearing release of transcripts from abandoned 2005 to 2007 Florida investigation. December 6, 2025 View Details DOJ refuses to disclose legal advice that led Noem to defy court order halting El Salvador deportations, citing privilege in contempt inquiry. December 6, 2025 View Details Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship, putting 14th Amendment guarantee and 127-year-old Wong Kim Ark precedent at stake. December 6, 2025 View Details Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstates all terminated grants after federal judge ruled Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the agency was unlawful, reversing months of frozen funding. December 5, 2025 View Details Unions seek emergency court order to block 1,000 federal layoffs after Trump administration argues congressional moratorium on reductions in force does not apply at five agencies, with State Department telling employees to “sue us.” December 5, 2025 View Details New York Times sues Pentagon over press restrictions after six reporters surrendered credentials rather than sign Hegseth’s policy limiting what journalists can publish. December 5, 2025 View Details Missouri appeals court rewrites Republican ballot measure to explicitly state that voting “yes” would repeal abortion rights voters approved in 2024 after second misleading draft rejected. December 5, 2025 View Details Appeals court lets Trump’s National Guard deployment in Washington continue after administration argued no limits exist on presidential power to station troops in American cities. December 5, 2025 View Details Grand jury refuses to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on bank fraud charges days after judge found Trump’s personal attorney was improperly appointed to prosecute her. December 5, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Texas to use redistricting maps a lower court found likely unconstitutional, with Justice Kagan warning decision ensures race-based voter placement. December 5, 2025 View Details Six EPA employees fired for signing letter accusing agency of “recklessly undermining” its mission are appealing to MSPB, alleging First Amendment violations and political retaliation. December 4, 2025 View Details House Judiciary subpoenas Jack Smith for closed-door testimony Dec. 17 after rejecting his offer to testify publicly about Trump investigations. December 4, 2025 View Details New York AG James challenges authority of acting US attorney appointed through Bondi’s procedural move that other courts have ruled unlawful, blocking subpoenas tied to Trump cases. December 4, 2025 View Details Trump renames US Institute of Peace after himself months after gutting the agency, firing its board, and taking over its building in what a federal judge called an illegal seizure. December 4, 2025 View Details Trump asks Judge Cannon to permanently block release of Jack Smith’s classified documents report, breaking precedent that special counsel findings be made public. December 3, 2025 View Details Appeals court revives Georgia ban on giving food and water to voters in line, orders reconsideration ahead of 2026 midterms citing new Supreme Court precedent. December 3, 2025 View Details Kari Lake notifies Congress of plans to close Voice of America overseas bureaus and radio stations despite April court order requiring agency to maintain news operations. December 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge finds “substantial likelihood” of unlawful immigration arrests in D.C., blocks warrantless detentions, orders agents to document flight-risk basis and share with plaintiffs. December 3, 2025 View Details DOT revokes accreditation for nearly 3,000 trucking schools and warns 4,000 more, one month after appeals court blocked immigrant CDL restrictions. December 2, 2025 View Details Trump fires eight more New York immigration judges as fired Ohio judge sues, alleging discrimination based on gender, Lebanese dual citizenship, and prior Democratic candidacy. December 2, 2025 View Details Third Circuit disqualifies Alina Habba as New Jersey U.S. Attorney, ruling Trump’s maneuver to bypass Senate confirmation violated federal law, first appeals court to block such appointments. December 2, 2025 View Details ICE deports Austin college student to Honduras 48 hours after arrest at Boston airport despite federal judge issuing deportation stay, lawyer says. November 29, 2025 View Details Appeals court allows Florida to enforce social media ban on minors while lawsuit continues; dissent calls law “plainly unconstitutional.” November 27, 2025 View Details 21 states sue USDA over guidance stripping SNAP benefits from refugees and asylum recipients, calling it unauthorized by Congress. November 27, 2025 View Details Georgia prosecutor dismisses Trump election case, ending last active criminal prosecution over 2020 election interference. November 27, 2025 View Details Supreme Court defers ruling on Trump’s firing of Copyright Office head, bundling case with pending FTC and Federal Reserve challenges. November 27, 2025 View Details Federal judges allow North Carolina to use redrawn map targeting state’s only swing district ahead of 2026 midterms. November 27, 2025 View Details DOJ acknowledges Noem ordered deportation of 100 Venezuelans to El Salvador prison despite judge’s order, as contempt proceedings resume and court seeks testimony from nine officials. November 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge finds ICE “routinely” made unlawful warrantless arrests in Colorado, grants provisional class action and orders agents to document flight risk for each arrest. November 26, 2025 View Details Iowa public defender fired for posting Bible verses about Charlie Kirk’s death sues state for First Amendment violation after appeals board ordered her reinstatement. November 26, 2025 View Details Chief judge dismisses DOJ misconduct complaint against judge who blocked Trump’s transgender military ban, says department should have sought recusal instead. November 26, 2025 View Details Political consultant who sent AI robocalls mimicking Biden to suppress New Hampshire primary votes says he will defy federal court order to pay damages. November 26, 2025 View Details Wisconsin Supreme Court orders three-judge panels to hear challenges to congressional maps where Republicans hold six of eight seats despite divided electorate. November 26, 2025 View Details Rep. Swalwell sues housing official Pulte for allegedly accessing his confidential mortgage records, the fourth Trump critic Pulte has referred to DOJ for investigation. November 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders DOJ to expedite FOIA request probing whether Trump’s name in Epstein files prompted administration’s July reversal on releasing them. November 26, 2025 View Details Judge dismisses Trump’s prosecutions of Comey and Letitia James, ruling interim prosecutor’s appointment invalid after career prosecutors refused to bring charges. November 25, 2025 View Details D.C. U.S. Attorney Pirro wins ruling allowing local grand jury indictments after federal grand juries reject charges, a precedent extending to sedition and treason. November 24, 2025 View Details Comey seeks dismissal after prosecutors admit full grand jury never reviewed final indictment that dropped rejected count, signed days before 5-year statute of limitations expired despite DOJ attempting to walk back admission. November 23, 2025 View Details Bondi files to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts in Florida after New York denial, citing Transparency Act passed by Congress days after claiming “new information” reversed case closure. November 23, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks IRS from sharing taxpayer addresses with ICE, rules data pact violated post-Watergate privacy laws and was “arbitrary and capricious.” November 22, 2025 View Details Costa Rica says it will still accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia, directly contradicting ICE official who testified under oath this week that the country was “not an option.” November 22, 2025 View Details North Dakota Supreme Court upholds abortion ban despite 3 of 5 justices finding it unconstitutional; state’s supermajority rule required 4 votes to strike law. November 22, 2025 View Details Justice Alito pauses ruling that struck down Texas’ “Big Beautiful Map” as racial gerrymandering; AG Paxton says it was designed “solely to secure more Republican seats.” November 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues 233-page ruling finding Border Patrol commander was ‘outright lying’ about Chicago deportation operation, documents 76 use-of-force incidents. November 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge dismisses last Midway Blitz case after grand juries refuse indictments in at least three prosecutions, calling charges “unusual and possibly unprecedented. November 21, 2025 View Details CFPB to furlough workforce on December 31 and transfer cases to Justice Department after Trump cuts Federal Reserve funding, latest attempt to close consumer protection bureau. November 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump’s 2,000-soldier Washington deployment illegal, saying president lacks authority to dispatch National Guard for crime deterrence despite violence claims. November 21, 2025 View Details Justice Department reverses itself one day after admitting full grand jury never saw final Comey indictment, now claims charges were properly approved. November 21, 2025 View Details Trans woman deported to Mexico despite court order finding she would likely face torture, with administration calling it “inadvertent” after trying four other countries. November 20, 2025 View Details 9th Circuit orders Oregon National Guard troops to remain under federal control but blocks deployment, an hour after Gov. Tina Kotek announced all 200 troops would be demobilized by Friday. November 20, 2025 View Details DOJ admits grand jury that indicted James Comey never saw final charges, with lead prosecutor Lindsey Halligan bringing altered version for foreperson signature after Comey’s attorneys argue lapse warrants dismissal. November 20, 2025 View Details GSA agrees not to paint 137-year-old Eisenhower Executive Office Building before 2026 after preservation groups sue, three days after Trump called the National Historic Landmark “ugly” and said “gray is for funerals.” November 20, 2025 View Details Judge James Boasberg resumes criminal contempt probe into Trump officials after two planes carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members continued to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around. November 20, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed federal judge approves new Alabama Senate map after finding Legislature violated Voting Rights Act by packing Black voters into one district, Gov. Kay Ivey declined special session to fix it. November 19, 2025 View Details Federal panel blocks Texas congressional map, finding racial gerrymandering after Gov. Greg Abbott explicitly directed Legislature to redistrict based on race. November 19, 2025 View Details Judge orders prosecutors to hand over 30 additional videos by Nov. 26 in Rep. McIver assault case, frustrated by “piecemeal” evidence delivery months after indictment. November 18, 2025 View Details Trump administration sues California over “No Secret Police Act” banning federal agents from covering faces during immigration raids. November 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders DOJ to turn over all grand jury materials to Comey defense citing “disturbing pattern” of missteps including potential Fourth Amendment violations. November 18, 2025 View Details Trump administration proposes redefining wetlands to exclude seasonal streams and wetlands from Clean Water Act protection, potentially eliminating pollution safeguards for 85% of U.S. wetlands. November 18, 2025 View Details Tennessee judge blocks National Guard deployment in Memphis ruling Gov. Lee exceeded authority, issues 5-day hold allowing appeal. November 18, 2025 View Details Memphis National Guard deployment expands to 350 troops under Trump task force while Shelby County Mayor Harris sues Governor Lee claiming unconstitutional military use. November 15, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from withholding UC research funds or demanding $1.2 billion settlement restricting academic freedom, calling administration “coercive and retaliatory” in fourth ruling against funding cuts since June. November 15, 2025 View Details Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council head appoints himself to prosecute Trump state election interference case after multiple prosecutors decline before court deadline that would have dismissed charges. November 15, 2025 View Details Federal Bureau of Prisons requests transfer of Tina Peters, convicted of voting machine access crimes, from Colorado state prison despite behavior violations that blocked safer state housing. November 15, 2025 View Details Judge rules two charges can proceed against Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver for May confrontation during ICE facility oversight visit, prosecuted by Trump’s former lawyer. November 14, 2025 View Details Justice Department sues to block voter-approved California map designed to flip five GOP House seats, accusing racial gerrymandering after Texas redrew districts to gain five. November 14, 2025 View Details Nevada Supreme Court rules fake electors who pledged state’s votes to Trump despite Biden’s 33,000-vote win face state trial in Clark County. November 14, 2025 View Details Appeals court hears arguments on law cutting Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds as 20 clinics close and Justice Department admits guidance on eligibility remains unfinalized. November 13, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of 615 immigration detainees arrested under Trump’s mandatory detention policy, calling it departure from prior law that entitled them to bond hearings. November 13, 2025 View Details Trump administration claims Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funding unlawful because Federal Reserve operated at a loss since 2022, predicting agency will exhaust funds early 2026 despite courts previously rejecting argument November 12, 2025 View Details Marion County pays $3 million and admits wrongdoing for police raid on Kansas newspaper that preceded owner’s mother’s death next day. November 12, 2025 View Details Utah judge rejects GOP legislature’s gerrymandered map and chooses plaintiffs’ version that could deliver House seat to Democrats after voters banned redistricting manipulation in 2018. November 12, 2025 View Details Supreme Court extends block on full SNAP payments to 42 million Americans until midnight Thursday as House prepares Wednesday vote on Senate-passed bill to end shutdown. November 12, 2025 View Details Utah judge blocks Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map minutes before midnight deadline, rules it shows “substantial pro-Republican bias” violating voter-approved redistricting law, picks plaintiffs’ alternative. November 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks USDA order demanding states claw back November SNAP benefits already distributed to millions after agency sent contradictory memos within 24 hours. November 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge says Iowa must give bond hearings to two asylum seekers held in county jails for months after Trump administration ordered them detained without chance to argue for release. November 11, 2025 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court again to block order requiring full SNAP payments, arguing federal judge’s ruling injects courts into shutdown negotiations after First Circuit rejected government’s stay request Sunday. November 11, 2025 View Details Judge allows West Virginia to continue deploying 300 National Guard troops to patrol Washington streets under Trump crime emergency declared despite Justice Department reporting violent crime at 30-year low. November 11, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after appellate court upheld $5 million award in December. November 11, 2025 View Details Supreme Court rejects Kim Davis appeal seeking to overturn 2015 same-sex marriage decision after she was ordered to pay $360,000 for denying couple a marriage license. November 11, 2025 View Details Reagan-appointed federal judge Mark Wolf resigns after 40 years on bench, accusing Trump of targeting adversaries while sparing donors and comparing him unfavorably to Nixon in Atlantic op-ed. November 10, 2025 View Details Trump pardons 77 people involved in 2020 election overturn efforts, including four who pleaded guilty, releasing pardons after midnight Sunday following Senate shutdown vote. November 10, 2025 View Details Trump administration demands states “undo” SNAP benefits already distributed to millions after Supreme Court stayed court orders, threatening penalties as states warn of catastrophic disruptions. November 10, 2025 View Details Democrats attack Trump for fighting court orders to fully fund SNAP while administration found money to pay military, law enforcement, and FBI agents. November 9, 2025 View Details Trump administration moves to dissolve ban on deporting man it wrongly sent to El Salvador prison so it can deport him to Liberia despite his designation of Costa Rica. November 9, 2025 View Details Federal magistrate judge plans Thursday visit to ICE Broadview facility where detainees testified to being held 100-plus in cells with no beds or hot meals. November 8, 2025 View Details California Supreme Court unanimously upholds law forbidding nursing home employees from misgendering LGBT residents, rejecting First Amendment challenge. November 8, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed judge blocks National Guard deployment to Portland, rules president exceeded authority despite governor’s objections and no federal request. November 8, 2025 View Details Justice Jackson temporarily freezes full SNAP payment order to give appeals court time to rule on Trump administration emergency request during shutdown dispute. November 8, 2025 View Details Judge delays Afghan asylum case indefinitely as government cannot complete background check despite four months detention without charges. November 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court justices question Trump’s tariff authority as government argues tariffs are regulatory not revenue-raising despite Trump touting billions in revenue. November 7, 2025 View Details Jury finds D.C. man not guilty of assaulting federal agent by throwing sandwich at him after grand jury earlier refused felony indictment. November 7, 2025 View Details Judge restricts federal agents’ use of force in Chicago after finding Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino lied about protester attack. November 7, 2025 View Details Sixth Circuit rules 10 to 7 that Ohio school district cannot punish students for using biological pronouns when referring to transgender classmates. November 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay full November SNAP benefits by Friday after government attempted to fund only half despite having multibillion-dollar contingency fund available during shutdown. November 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump administration to limit passport sex markers to male or female based on birth sex, reversing Biden policy that allowed transgender people to self-select gender or choose “X” marker. November 7, 2025 View Details Judge orders White House to immediately provide American Sign Language interpreters at press briefings after administration stopped using them in January despite hundreds of thousands of Americans communicating mainly in ASL. November 6, 2025 View Details Key Congressional Republicans demand Chief Justice Roberts investigate federal judges who anonymously told NY Times that Supreme Court issues orders too vague for lower courts to follow. November 6, 2025 View Details Judge criticizes Justice Department’s “indict first, investigate second” approach in Comey case and orders all evidence turned over by Thursday following indictment Trump demanded. November 6, 2025 View Details Judge orders ICE to provide bedding, hygiene supplies, and attorney access at Broadview, Illinois facility after testimony described 100 detainees sleeping on floors near open toilets. November 6, 2025 View Details Utah Legislature’s congressional map architect used partisan election data legislators previously called disqualifying as judge faces November 10 deadline to choose 2026 district boundaries. November 4, 2025 View Details Stephen Miller has Virginia State Police seize 65-year-old activist Barbara Wien’s phone in August over pamphlets distributed to neighbors criticizing Trump administration policies. November 4, 2025 View Details Twenty-one states and Washington DC sue Education Department over rule barring student debt forgiveness for public servants who “abet illegal immigration” or support gender transition for minors. November 4, 2025 View Details Trial begins for Sean Dunn, fired Justice Department paralegal arrested by SWAT team after throwing sandwich at federal agent despite grand jury declining felony charge. November 4, 2025 View Details Federal judge hears testimony on alleged inhumane conditions and lack of attorney access at Broadview ICE facility with power to close it or halt all Chicago-area immigration enforcement. November 4, 2025 View Details Trump administration chooses to fund only half of November food stamps to nearly 42 million Americans despite federal court orders and $17 billion in available tariff revenue. November 4, 2025 View Details Treasury secretary says food aid could restart by Wednesday, two days after court’s Monday deadline to authorize payments or face contempt. November 3, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump’s deployment of 400 National Guard troops to Portland, ruling federal takeover of state forces likely violates Constitution. November 3, 2025 View Details Trump refuses negotiations as 33-day shutdown continues, and courts block his attempt to cut food aid for 42 million people. November 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump to pay states food stamp money by Wednesday after administration claimed no legal authority despite $5.25 billion available. November 2, 2025 View Details New York judge dismisses Texas Attorney General Paxton’s attempt to enforce $113,000 judgment against Ulster County doctor who prescribed abortion medication to Texas patient. November 1, 2025 View Details NC GOP communications director threatens ProPublica reporter investigating state Supreme Court judge, saying “I would strongly suggest dropping this story” and invoking “connections with the Trump Administration.” November 1, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump order requiring proof of citizenship to vote, ruling President “lacks the authority” to direct election changes under Constitution’s separation of powers. November 1, 2025 View Details Judges order Trump to continue food aid for 40 million Americans during shutdown after USDA said ‘well has run dry’ despite $6 billion emergency reserve. November 1, 2025 View Details Texas Supreme Court amends judicial conduct rules to allow judges to decline same-sex weddings based on religious beliefs without violating state impartiality standards. October 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge likely to order Trump administration to use emergency funds for November SNAP benefits during 30-day shutdown despite USDA objections. October 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules FDA violated law by restricting mifepristone access without reasoned explanation, though restrictions remain during agency review. October 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge quashes DOJ subpoena to online trans health provider QueerDoc, ruling demand serves “improper purpose” of executing Trump’s orders to eliminate gender-affirming care rather than legitimate law enforcement investigation. October 30, 2025 View Details Federal trial reveals Oregon National Guard troops deployed to Portland ICE facility for 12 hours on Oct 4 despite Judge Immergut’s restraining order issued during their shift, with judge warning of possible contempt. October 30, 2025 View Details Supreme Court effectively denies Trump emergency request to deploy National Guard to Illinois, ordering supplemental briefs with Nov. 10 deadline that deflates urgency claims and keeps troops blocked. October 30, 2025 View Details Appeals court temporarily blocks Judge Ellis order requiring Border Patrol commander Bovino to appear in court daily, after Justice Department calls it “extraordinarily disruptive” to deportation operations. October 30, 2025 View Details Colorado sues Trump over moving Space Command to Alabama in retaliation for state’s mail-in voting system, which Trump called “automatically crooked elections” and “a big factor” in his decision. October 30, 2025 View Details ICE deports Alabama man with US citizenship claim to Laos one day after federal judge blocked removal, warning of “inherent and obvious harm” in deporting a citizen. October 30, 2025 View Details Trump appeals felony conviction in hush-money case, arguing Supreme Court immunity ruling bars jury from considering official presidential acts like testimony from former aide Hope Hicks. October 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders DOJ and DHS to notify all employees that Bondi and Noem violated court rules by making prejudicial public statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. October 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules acting US Attorney Bill Essayli unlawfully serving since July when he resigned as interim prosecutor and was immediately re-designated as “first assistant” by AG Pam Bondi. October 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s 4,000 shutdown layoffs as unlawful political retribution, citing statements that RIFs would target “Democrat programs.” October 29, 2025 View Details Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue over Tylenol autism claims one month after RFK Jr. issued guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen despite lack of evidence. October 29, 2025 View Details ICE deports Louisiana detainee with substantial citizenship claim to Laos in defiance of federal judge’s order blocking his removal. October 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino to appear in court daily for seven days and wear a bodycam after he personally threw tear gas at crowds without warning. October 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge reaffirms injunction blocking deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia after Justice Department notified court of plans to deport him by Oct. 31. October 28, 2025 View Details More than 100 former Justice Department officials file brief calling Trump prosecution of ex-FBI Director James Comey “vindictive,” backed by authoritarianism scholars. October 28, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from canceling up to $1 billion in student mental health grants, ruling Education Department’s identical explanations were “arbitrary and capricious.” October 28, 2025 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court to reverse ruling protecting Copyright Office director fired for AI advice to Congress. October 28, 2025 View Details DHS detains British journalist Sami Hamdi and revokes visa despite Sept. 30 federal court ruling that deportations over pro-Palestinian views violate Constitution and chill free speech. October 27, 2025 View Details Federal agents deploy tear gas in Chicago neighborhood for fourth time this week as Border Patrol commander faces court appearance for allegedly defying orders limiting its use. October 26, 2025 View Details Judge rules ICE detention of father whose teen daughter has cancer unlawful, orders bond hearing by Oct. 31 as DHS defends arrest by calling traffic violations “criminal.” October 26, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court temporarily blocks Trump deployment of 200 National Guard troops to Portland until Tuesday while broader panel of judges decides whether to rehear case. October 25, 2025 View Details Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has authority to send migrants designated for deportation to any U.S. military base worldwide, defending Guantanamo detentions now paused for a hurricane. October 24, 2025 View Details Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino threw tear gas toward a crowd in Chicago’s Little Village Thursday morning despite a federal restraining order barring agents from using chemical agents on people who don’t pose a threat. October 24, 2025 View Details Trump terminates all trade negotiations with Canada after Ontario aired ads featuring Reagan’s 1987 anti-tariff remarks, accusing Canada of trying to influence pending Supreme Court cases on tariff legality. October 24, 2025 View Details Illinois and Chicago urge Supreme Court to reject Trump’s request to deploy National Guard, arguing judge’s order expires in three days and lower courts agree on legal analysis. October 21, 2025 View Details Comey asks judge to dismiss charges, arguing career prosecutors found no case but Trump installed White House aide who filed indictment days before statute of limitations expired. October 21, 2025 View Details Chicago judge questions top ICE and Border Patrol officials over body camera noncompliance and use of tear gas in residential areas during Operation Midway Blitz. October 21, 2025 View Details 9th Circuit overturns judge’s order blocking National Guard in Portland, clearing way for Trump to deploy troops at ICE facility over state objections. October 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge expands restraining order blocking shutdown firings to cover employees in unions the government stopped recognizing after Trump’s executive order ending representation. October 18, 2025 View Details Federal courts run out of funding Monday and will furlough staff after exhausting court fees and non-appropriated funds during the three-week shutdown. October 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders ICE field director to testify and requires agents in Chicago immigration operation to wear body cameras after expressing “profound concern” about violations of restrictions on tear gas use. October 17, 2025 View Details Federal judge permanently blocks Trump from withholding $34 million in anti-terror transit funding from New York City, calling the sanctuary city-based decision “arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.” October 17, 2025 View Details Trump refiles defamation lawsuit against New York Times seeking $15 billion after judge threw out original 85-page complaint as “tedious and burdensome,” ordering a rewrite under 40 pages. October 17, 2025 View Details Pennsylvania’s Fulton County faces over $1 million in fines after Republican commissioners allowed third-party access to voting machines to aid Trump’s stolen election claims, including after state Supreme Court barred such access. October 16, 2025 View Details House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Rep. Cory Mills a “faithful colleague” after judge grants restraining order barring Mills from coming within 500 feet of ex-girlfriend and finds his testimony untruthful. October 16, 2025 View Details Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses after at least nine people arrested by federal immigration agents since July and clients began avoiding court out of fear. October 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Texas law restricting campus protests, saying court cannot trust universities to enforce policies constitutionally, after law banned non-students from demonstrations and imposed 10 pm to 8 am curfew. October 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from firing workers during shutdown, calling cuts politically motivated and carried out with “very much ready, fire, aim” approach that “has a human cost.” October 16, 2025 View Details Supreme Court hears case Wednesday on Louisiana redistricting threatening to strike down last major Voting Rights Act provision protecting minority voters from being shut out of congressional district drawing. October 15, 2025 View Details GOP-appointed judge accuses Trump administration of violating order barring FEMA conditions tied to immigration enforcement, calling it ham-handed attempt to bully states. October 15, 2025 View Details Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Arizona border law that allows police to arrest migrants, ruling challenge is premature because law depends on frozen Texas statute. October 14, 2025 View Details White House Homeland Security Council directly selected Uganda for Abrego Garcia deportation in highly unusual move, ICE official testifies, as Justice Department asserts presidential privilege over selection details. October 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules ICE warrantless arrests of 11 Missouri restaurant workers violated consent decree, ordering release and requiring DHS to retrain officers and reissue arrest policy nationwide. October 11, 2025 View Details University of Arkansas installs 500 Ten Commandments posters in compliance with state law requiring displays in public institutions, despite federal judge blocking law at five school districts. October 11, 2025 View Details Attorney General Bondi and DOJ leadership caught off guard when Trump-installed U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan secured indictment of Letitia James from grand jury, against career prosecutors’ recommendation. October 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from imposing conditions on domestic violence grants that would bar groups from promoting DEI or providing abortion resources. October 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge rejects indictment after prosecutors bypassed federal grand jury that declined to charge man, calling Trump-era tactic an “unprecedented workaround” of justice system. October 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge restricts ICE and DHS force against Chicago protesters and journalists after agents shot pastor with pepper bullet and tear-gassed reporters. October 10, 2025 View Details Georgia judge extends deadline to November 14 for naming prosecutor in Trump election case after Fani Willis disqualification, rejecting agency’s request for 90-day delay. October 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump’s Illinois National Guard deployment as unconstitutional after finding ICE agents escalated violence through indiscriminate tear gas they blamed on protesters. October 10, 2025 View Details New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted for bank fraud by Trump-installed prosecutor despite career prosecutor determining no probable cause for charges. October 10, 2025 View Details Trump brags “we took the freedom of speech away” on flag burning during White House roundtable despite Supreme Court ruling it is protected speech. October 9, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court keeps Oregon Guard federalized but blocks Portland deployment ahead of Thursday arguments on Trump’s bid to send troops against immigration protests. October 9, 2025 View Details Wyoming librarian fired after refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books and defending Pride Month wins $700,000 settlement from Campbell County after nearly 30 years of service. October 9, 2025 View Details Comey pleads not guilty to charges brought by Trump’s former personal attorney Lindsey Halligan, who has no prosecutorial experience, after her predecessor was ousted for refusing to prosecute. October 9, 2025 View Details Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway subpoenas Planned Parenthood patient abortion records to defend regulations that voters rejected when they approved Amendment 3 protecting reproductive rights. October 8, 2025 View Details Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits Portland ICE facility as federal appeals court prepares to hear arguments on blocked National Guard deployment ordered by Trump. October 8, 2025 View Details Utah Legislature picks least Democratic-friendly map of six options after judge ruled previous districts violated voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law, adding amendment opponents call obstruction tactic. October 7, 2025 View Details Eswatini accepts 10 US deportees day before court case challenging $5.1 million deal to take up to 160 without parliamentary consent as constitution requires. October 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to produce witnesses in Abrego Garcia deportation case after five weeks of no action and DOJ sending uninformed attorneys to hearings. October 7, 2025 View Details Solar companies, unions and homeowners sue EPA for canceling $7 billion Solar for All program expected to save 900,000 low-income households $350 million annually, claiming Trump violated separation of powers by blocking congressional funding. October 7, 2025 View Details Justice Department contradicts DeSantis, admitting Everglades detention center holds people who never had removal proceedings despite his repeated claims all have final deportation orders. October 7, 2025 View Details Wisconsin appeals Waukesha Co. judge ruling ordering citizenship check of voter rolls in lawsuit from attorneys who tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss, citing massive system overhaul burden. October 7, 2025 View Details Trump falsely claims Associated Press lost court case over White House access when judge actually ruled for AP, blocking retaliation over Gulf of Mexico naming refusal. October 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court rejects Maxwell appeal based on Epstein’s Florida plea deal as Trump says he would consider pardoning her despite child sex trafficking conviction. October 7, 2025 View Details Trump says he would invoke Insurrection Act if courts or governors block National Guard deployments, one day after federal judge blocked Portland troops. October 7, 2025 View Details Judge declines to block Trump’s National Guard deployment to Chicago despite Illinois and city lawsuit, as Texas troops already en route and Illinois Guard reports Tuesday. October 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge expands order blocking any state’s National Guard from deploying to Oregon after Trump sent 200 California troops despite Saturday ruling, finding Portland ICE protests don’t justify military intervention. October 6, 2025 View Details Attorney General Pam Bondi announces DOJ will appeal eight-year sentence for Sophie Roske’s attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh, calling it woefully insufficient after prosecutors sought at least 30 years to life. October 5, 2025 View Details Minnesota regulators approve BlackRock’s $6.2 billion takeover of Minnesota Power despite attorney general’s opposition and judge’s warning that private equity will pursue profit at ratepayers’ expense. October 5, 2025 View Details Religious organizations, health care providers, unions and educators sue Trump administration over $100,000 H-1B visa fee, warning hospitals will lose medical staff and churches will lose pastors. October 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump policy to automatically detain migrant children in adult ICE facilities after they turn 18, ruling it violates his 2021 order requiring release to least restrictive settings. October 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, ruling he violated the 10th Amendment and protests don’t constitute rebellion. October 5, 2025 View Details Judge says Deputy AG Blanche’s admission case brought to return Abrego Garcia could be direct evidence of vindictive prosecution, orders hearing on dismissal. October 4, 2025 View Details Federal workers union sues Education Dept. for manipulating civil servants’ out-of-office emails without consent to blame Democrats for shutdown, claiming First Amendment violation. October 4, 2025 View Details Judge gives Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council 14 days to find new prosecutor for Trump Georgia election case or dismisses it after Willis removed over Wade relationship. October 4, 2025 View Details Second appeals court blocks Trump order denying citizenship to U.S.-born children without citizen parents despite Supreme Court limiting nationwide injunctions in June. October 4, 2025 View Details Administration begins training up to 600 Army Reserve and National Guard lawyers as temporary immigration judges, weeks after firing over 100 experienced judges and eliminating immigration law experience requirements. October 3, 2025 View Details Voice of America stops all broadcasts and furloughs journalists 2 days after judge threatened contempt for defying restoration order, breaking with past shutdowns that treated news to authoritarian countries as essential. October 2, 2025 View Details Judge denies asylum motion for man wrongly deported to El Salvador mega-prison in violation of 2019 court order, ruling request filed 6 years after original proceedings ‘untimely.’ October 2, 2025 View Details Tacoma judge rules unlawful the denial of bond hearings to immigrants who entered without admission, blocking a national policy adopted over the summer from a court that granted bond in only 3% of cases. October 2, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay through 2026 pending January arguments, breaking from deference shown to Trump’s removal power in other independent agency cases. October 2, 2025 View Details Surface Transportation Board member fired in August sues Trump, claiming illegal removal ahead of $85 billion rail merger review that Trump later endorsed. October 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump executive order that stripped collective bargaining rights from two-thirds of federal workers, ruling president “clearly” exceeded his authority by using national security pretext to retaliate against unions. October 1, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Nevada acting U.S. attorney has no legal authority to prosecute cases after administration illegally appointed her without Senate confirmation or serving as first assistant as required by law. October 1, 2025 View Details Reagan-appointed judge rules Trump officials illegally revoked visas and arrested pro-Palestinian students to chill free speech, revealing threatening note his chambers received saying ‘Trump has pardons and tanks.’ October 1, 2025 View Details Trump administration argues Justice Department guidance supersedes independent Merit Systems Protection Board after two fired immigration judges win appeals, claiming presidential power overrides workers’ due process rights. September 30, 2025 View Details YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension, with $22 million funding White House State Ballroom construction through tax-exempt trust, the third platform to settle with Trump this year. September 30, 2025 View Details Reagan-appointed judge blocks Kari Lake’s plan to eliminate 532 Voice of America jobs, accuses Trump administration of egregious disregard for court orders that would support contempt trial. September 30, 2025 View Details Border Patrol commander says agents arrest people based on ‘how they look’ during militarized Chicago sweep three weeks after Supreme Court approved racial profiling in his California operation. September 29, 2025 View Details Educators in Iowa, South Carolina and Indiana file separate lawsuits after losing jobs over Kirk assassination comments, each claiming First Amendment violations. September 28, 2025 View Details Rudy Giuliani settles Dominion’s $1.3 billion defamation suit for undisclosed sum, two years after Fox paid $787 million for same election lies. September 27, 2025 View Details Trump appeals to Supreme Court to overturn 150-year understanding of 14th Amendment, claiming birthright citizenship was “mistaken.” September 27, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court blocks Trump’s attempt to strip union rights from Pentagon K-12 teachers by labeling them national security workers. September 27, 2025 View Details Trump fires Sacramento US Attorney hours after she warned Border Patrol chief that planned raids would violate court order. September 27, 2025 View Details Justice Dept. subpoenas Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s travel records one day after indicting James Comey in escalating probe of Trump’s foes. September 27, 2025 View Details Federal judge extends block on deportation of 70 Honduran and Guatemalan children after finding Trump’s reunification claims false. September 27, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump ally Mike Lindell defamed Smartmatic 51 times while promoting 2020 election lies, facing nine-figure damages. September 27, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to withhold $4 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid despite GAO ruling the move illegal. September 27, 2025 View Details Planned Parenthood halts Wisconsin abortion services after appeals court lifts injunction blocking Trump’s Medicaid funding ban. September 26, 2025 View Details Former Fed chairs Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen warn Supreme Court that removing Lisa Cook threatens independence and could trigger inflation. September 26, 2025 View Details A George W. Bush-appointed judge rules the Trump administration cannot tie FEMA disaster aid to states’ cooperation on immigration enforcement. September 25, 2025 View Details A federal judge rebukes Attorney General Pam Bondi and warns of sanctions for public statements that jeopardize the trial in the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder. September 25, 2025 View Details A federal judge finds Trump’s firing of 17 government watchdogs unlawful but denies their reinstatement, stating he could legally fire them again with proper notice. September 25, 2025 View Details A Justice Dept. official suggested a criminal probe into the FBI agent who sued Alex Jones just three days after the official was photographed with Jones. September 24, 2025 View Details Ryan Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen immediately after a jury found him guilty of attempting to assassinate Trump. September 24, 2025 View Details A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore over $500 million in UCLA health grants suspended over claims of antisemitism. September 23, 2025 View Details The Supreme Court allows Trump to fire an FTC commissioner while it considers overturning a 90-year-old precedent on removal power. September 23, 2025 View Details A West Point professor files a First Amendment class-action lawsuit, alleging a free speech crackdown followed a Trump executive order. September 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge releases a man charged with aiming a laser at Marine One, calling prosecutors’ detention request “not remotely appropriate.” September 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge ends the 31-day halt on the Revolution Wind farm, ruling the Trump administration’s stop-work order was arbitrary and capricious. September 23, 2025 View Details Trump taps his legal adversary Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell for the U.S. investor group buying TikTok after freezing a congressionally mandated sale. September 22, 2025 View Details The National Labor Relations Board sued New York State days after it enacted a law to bypass what Democrats call Trump’s gutting of the federal agency. September 21, 2025 View Details Trump publicly demanded Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his rivals one day after firing the federal prosecutor who declined to charge Letitia James. September 21, 2025 View Details Trump nominated a former personal lawyer to run the Virginia prosecutor’s office one day after firing the U.S. Attorney who declined to charge Letitia James. September 21, 2025 View Details California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws banning law enforcement from wearing face masks and accessing schools 12 days after the Supreme Court allowed roving immigration patrols. September 21, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks a USDA plan to collect SNAP data for immigration enforcement two months after the agency threatened states. September 20, 2025 View Details The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to reinstate its ban on the ‘X’ passport marker five months after a judge blocked it as discriminatory. September 20, 2025 View Details US Attorney Erik Siebert resigns after Trump administration officials pressured him to criminally charge New York AG Letitia James. September 20, 2025 View Details The Justice Dept. again asks the Supreme Court to end Venezuelan TPS, accusing a lower court of disregarding its previous order. September 20, 2025 View Details A federal judge rejects Trump’s rambling lawsuit against The New York Times and orders a revised, shorter complaint within one month. September 20, 2025 View Details Trump fires a U.S. attorney just four months after his own nomination for refusing to prosecute political rival Letitia James without evidence. September 19, 2025 View Details South Carolina’s election commission fires its director, who is under criminal investigation, just days after the state Supreme Court approved releasing voter data to the Justice Dept. September 19, 2025 View Details A Trump-appointed judge blocks the deportation of 600 Guatemalan children, ruling the administration’s family reunification claim lacks evidence. September 19, 2025 View Details Trump asks the Supreme Court for an emergency order to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook after lower courts blocked her removal as likely illegal. September 19, 2025 View Details Six months after his arrest in Trump’s immigration crackdown, an immigration judge orders pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil deported to Algeria or Syria. September 18, 2025 View Details Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly made the same type of mortgage pledge the administration is using to justify firing Fed’s Lisa Cook. September 18, 2025 View Details Judge Madeline Haikala rules Jefferson County’s commission map illegally packs Black voters and orders the lines be redrawn. September 18, 2025 View Details An Army veteran pleads not guilty to charges from Jeanine Pirro’s office for a protest held the same day as Trump’s flag burning order. September 18, 2025 View Details Eleven West Africans deported from the U.S. claim they are still detained in Ghana, directly contradicting Ghanaian officials’ recent statements. September 18, 2025 View Details A coalition of university groups sued the Trump administration, calling its demand for $1 billion and policy changes at UCLA unconstitutional coercion. September 17, 2025 View Details The Justice Dept. sued Oregon and Maine for voter data weeks after the states refused the demand, citing residents’ privacy rights. September 17, 2025 View Details Trump files a $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times, expanding his legal battle with media over reports linking him to an Epstein note. September 16, 2025 View Details Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey sues the Justice Dept., alleging her firing was retaliation against her father, James Comey. September 16, 2025 View Details U.S. removes 14 men to Ghana, creating chaos as lawyers and officials give conflicting reports on their whereabouts. September 16, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook one day before a key meeting on interest rates. September 16, 2025 View Details Following months of public pressure on the Fed, the Trump administration appeals a block on its firing of Governor Lisa Cook for alleged fraud. September 15, 2025 View Details A federal judge accused the Trump administration of using Ghana to make an ‘end run around’ court orders protecting African immigrants from deportation. September 14, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled the Office of Personnel Management unlawfully directed mass firings and ordered agencies to correct records stating poor performance as the cause. September 14, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s HUD from awarding housing grants under new rules targeting sanctuary jurisdictions and transgender-inclusive policies. September 14, 2025 View Details Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook asked a U.S. appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s bid to fire her days before the central bank’s next interest rate vote. September 14, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court overturns a judge’s order, clearing the Trump administration to deport 500,000 migrants admitted under a parole program. September 13, 2025 View Details Loan documents from 2021 contradict the Trump administration’s mortgage fraud basis for attempting to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. September 13, 2025 View Details Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed a U.S. response after Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced ally Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years for plotting a coup. September 12, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reopen TPS registration for Venezuelans after its online system went down on the final day of the sign-up period. September 12, 2025 View Details A U.S. appeals court reversed a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood. September 12, 2025 View Details Two federal judges blocked an Education and HHS Dept. policy issued in July that required immigration verification for families to access Head Start. September 12, 2025 View Details A federal judge in Arizona blocked the Trump administration from deporting 69 Guatemalan and Honduran children. September 12, 2025 View Details Judge Aileen Cannon stopped the self-represented Ryan Wesley Routh from finishing his opening statement in the Trump assassination trial after a rambling political speech. September 12, 2025 View Details A Trump-appointed judge confronts the Justice Dept. for falsely claiming families requested the Labor Day deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children. September 11, 2025 View Details The Education Dept. cuts $350 million from minority-serving colleges, labeling the programs discriminatory two months after the Justice Dept. abandoned their legal defense. September 11, 2025 View Details A divided Supreme Court permits a transgender South Carolina student to use the boys’ restroom, ruling the state failed to justify an emergency stay. September 11, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks a Trump administration rule cutting immigrant access to Head Start and health clinics in 20 states that challenged the policy. September 11, 2025 View Details The Trump administration appeals a ruling blocking the removal of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, escalating a legal battle over the central bank’s independence. September 11, 2025 View Details Fired senior FBI agents allege in a new lawsuit that Director Kash Patel prioritized White House loyalty demands over federal law. September 11, 2025 View Details Citing the Supreme Court’s Skrmetti decision, the 11th Circuit rules a Georgia county can deny gender-affirming surgery because the exclusion is based on diagnosis, not discrimination. September 11, 2025 View Details House Republicans push bills to give the president control over D.C.’s attorney general and judges the day after Trump’s federal police takeover expired. September 11, 2025 View Details Fired Justice Dept. attorney pleads not guilty to a misdemeanor for a sandwich assault after a grand jury rejected a felony charge sought during Trump’s D.C. surge. September 11, 2025 View Details A Michigan judge dismisses the criminal case against 15 ‘fake electors,’ finding they lacked intent while following instructions from uncharged Trump campaign lawyers. September 10, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks a Justice Dept. subpoena for transgender patient records, ruling it a bad-faith effort to harass Boston Children’s Hospital and intimidate patients. September 10, 2025 View Details A federal judge declines to block an ongoing National Guard deployment in California just eight days after ruling the mission was illegal. September 10, 2025 View Details Chief Justice John Roberts denies an emergency appeal to block Trump’s freeze on billions in foreign aid. September 10, 2025 View Details The Supreme Court expedites its review of Trump’s tariffs just weeks after lower courts ruled the president usurped congressional power over trade. September 10, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook 14 days after the attempt, ruling conduct before her term began is not legal cause for removal. September 10, 2025 View Details A New York judge voids Mayor Adams’s order allowing ICE on Rikers, citing a quid pro quo offer he made to have his corruption case dismissed. September 9, 2025 View Details An appeals court rejects Trump’s immunity claim and upholds an $83.3 million defamation verdict for his ‘egregious’ attacks on E. Jean Carroll. September 9, 2025 View Details Ryan Routh represents himself at his federal trial for the 2024 attempted assassination of Trump. September 9, 2025 View Details The Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in defiance of a 90-year-old law protecting agency independence. September 9, 2025 View Details The Supreme Court lifts a ban on stop-and-frisk style immigration patrols in Los Angeles two months after a judge found the tactics unconstitutional. September 9, 2025 View Details The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to freeze $4.9 billion in foreign aid days after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling calling the move illegal. September 9, 2025 View Details Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. must refund half of its tariff revenue if the Supreme Court rules against the administration’s trade agenda. September 8, 2025 View Details Trump threatens new EU tariffs two months after a trade deal, responding to Friday’s $3.5 billion antitrust fine on Google’s ad business. September 7, 2025 View Details Days after the Justice Dept sued Boston, ICE launches an immigration crackdown in Massachusetts that Mayor Michelle Wu calls an unconstitutional attack. September 7, 2025 View Details Attorney General Pam Bondi justifies a new DOJ lawsuit against Boston by citing crimes that occurred in other Massachusetts towns. September 6, 2025 View Details A Justice Dept. appeals board affirms a new ICE policy of mandatory detention without bond hearings for millions of undocumented immigrants. September 6, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s ‘illegal’ revocation of TPS for over one million Venezuelan and Haitian migrants, previously citing likely racial animus as a motive. September 6, 2025 View Details House Republicans propose 14 bills to assert federal control over D.C. criminal justice one day after the city’s attorney general sued Trump. September 6, 2025 View Details The DC National Guard commander extends troop deployment to Nov. 30 two days after the DC attorney general sued to block Trump’s federal security takeover. September 6, 2025 View Details After the fifth D.C. crime surge case was rejected by a grand jury, a federal judge said D.C. prosecutors have “no credibility left.” September 5, 2025 View Details One month after publicly targeting Boston, the Justice Dept sues the city to overturn its “sanctuary city” law. September 5, 2025 View Details An appeals court blocks the shutdown of a Florida immigration detention center, ruling enforcement needs outweigh environmental risks. September 5, 2025 View Details As his bid to fire a Fed governor stalls, Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him fire an FTC commissioner. September 5, 2025 View Details One month after it was thrown out, New York’s attorney general is appealing to reinstate the $454 million fraud judgment against Trump. September 5, 2025 View Details An immigrant pleads guilty to being in the U.S. illegally five months after a Milwaukee judge was charged with helping him evade ICE agents. September 5, 2025 View Details The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to quickly reverse a lower court ruling that found his emergency tariffs usurp congressional power. September 5, 2025 View Details A federal judge orders the Trump administration to release $11.5 billion in foreign aid, blocking a presidential move identified as a “pocket rescission.” September 5, 2025 View Details The U.S. sanctions three Palestinian human rights groups for successfully petitioning the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli leaders for war crimes. September 5, 2025 View Details An appeals court blocks a lower court’s order from restricting National Guard actions in Los Angeles. September 5, 2025 View Details D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sues the federal government to end the National Guard’s 24-day “illegal” and “involuntary military occupation.” September 5, 2025 View Details Two Missouri county clerks rejected a Justice Department request for access to their 2020 Dominion voting machines, citing legal and security concerns. September 4, 2025 View Details A Utah judge ordered the legislature to immediately redraw its congressional map, enforcing a voter-approved law against partisan gerrymandering. September 4, 2025 View Details In her first major immigration rulings, Attorney General Bondi reinstated Trump-era restrictions on asylum for victims of domestic abuse and gang violence. September 4, 2025 View Details DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is using a new legal tactic to end Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status just days after a court ruled her previous attempt unlawful. September 4, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze more than $2 billion in Harvard grants, ruling the move was unconstitutional retaliation to coerce university policy changes. September 4, 2025 View Details A Seventh Circuit panel reversed a lower court to uphold Illinois’s ban on guns on public transit, ruling it a “sensitive place” under the Bruen precedent. September 4, 2025 View Details The Texas Legislature has passed a bill that allows private citizens to sue individuals who assist others in obtaining abortion pills, a practice commonly known as “bounty hunting.” September 4, 2025 View Details HHS will restore over 100 health webpages after settling a lawsuit with doctors over their removal as part of a ban on the word “gender.” September 4, 2025 View Details One day after a judge ruled his Los Angeles troop deployment unlawful, Trump suggested sending the National Guard to New Orleans next. September 4, 2025 View Details For the fifth time, a D.C. grand jury rejects a felony charge tied to Trump’s federal surge by refusing to indict a man for assaulting an officer. September 3, 2025 View Details An appeals court rules Trump unlawfully fired FTC member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, citing a 1935 Supreme Court precedent. September 3, 2025 View Details A Colorado sheriff’s deputy resigns to end a lawsuit accusing him of violating a new state law by helping federal immigration agents. September 3, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court says Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, finding no ‘invasion’ occurred. September 3, 2025 View Details In a new court filing, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook argues that Trump cannot use previously vetted mortgage information as a pretext to fire her. September 3, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled the Trump administration’s use of the National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal, violating the Posse Comitatus Act. September 3, 2025 View Details A D.C. Circuit panel led by Trump appointees allows the EPA to cancel $16 billion in green energy grants following congressional repeal of the program. September 3, 2025 View Details Trump prepares federal agents and Texas National Guard for Chicago deployment, a plan Pritzker denounces as a partisan stunt targeting Mexican Independence Day. September 3, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s early-morning holiday weekend plan to fly 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala. September 1, 2025 View Details Months after Trump’s blanket pardon, a lawyer for Jan. 6 rioters says he pitched top Justice Dept. officials on a plan to pay them financial damages. September 1, 2025 View Details DHS Secretary Kristi Noem confirms an ICE surge in Chicago and calls a National Guard deployment Trump’s decision, prompting a lawsuit threat from Gov. JB Pritzker. September 1, 2025 View Details Kari Lake announces 532 job cuts at Voice of America one day after a federal judge blocked her from firing its director. August 31, 2025 View Details The FTC chairman threatened to investigate Google for sending Republican emails to spam, reviving a claim already dismissed by a federal judge and the FEC. August 30, 2025 View Details Two northern Virginia school districts serving more than 207,000 students sued the Education Dept. for freezing millions in funds over their transgender student policies. August 30, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans, ruling Congress did not grant it that authority. August 30, 2025 View Details Citing a violation of constitutional due process rights, a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s nationwide expansion of fast-track deportations. August 30, 2025 View Details Using a procedural loophole, Senate-confirmed Judge Emil Bove continues his Justice Department work instead of taking his seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. August 30, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court ruled Trump overstepped his authority by imposing tariffs without Congress, but allowed the illegal duties to remain for now. August 30, 2025 View Details A federal judge freed a D.C. lawyer arrested during the federal surge, calling the case ‘one of the weakest requests for detention I have seen.’ August 30, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Kari Lake from firing Voice of America director, ruling law requires advisory panel approval to protect the network’s independence. August 29, 2025 View Details Appeals court keeps nonprofits’ challenge alive against Trump administration’s freeze on $15B in foreign aid, sending dispute back to lower court. August 29, 2025 View Details Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia seek gag order after Trump officials attack the deported Maryland father, as judge warns comments threaten fair trial. August 29, 2025 View Details Judge sets emergency hearing on Lisa Cook suit to block her removal after Trump alleges mortgage fraud, raising stakes for Federal Reserve independence. August 29, 2025 View Details D.C. prosecutors reduced a felony assault charge to a misdemeanor for Sean Dunn after a grand jury refused to indict him for throwing a sandwich. August 29, 2025 View Details In a major reversal, Louisiana’s attorney general now asks the Supreme Court to find a key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. August 28, 2025 View Details Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum to prevent his deportation to Uganda after being re-detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore. August 28, 2025 View Details Judge orders U.S. to repay a Jan. 6 rioter on a legal technicality, ruling her conviction appeal was vacated by a presidential pardon. August 28, 2025 View Details Florida official says the Everglades immigration detention facility will be empty within days, just a week after a judge ordered it to wind down operations. August 28, 2025 View Details Judge fines Fulton County Commission $10K per day for refusing to seat two GOP election board nominees who promoted baseless fraud claims. August 28, 2025 View Details Border Patrol arrests two firefighters at Washington wildfire in rare operation as concerns over federal agents acting at disaster sites resurface. August 28, 2025 View Details Trump calls Utah redistricting order unconstitutional after judge ruled GOP legislature defied voter-approved safeguards against gerrymandering. August 28, 2025 View Details The NAACP and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued Texas Tuesday over a Trump-backed congressional map giving Republicans five more seats, arguing it unconstitutionally weakens Black and minority voters. August 27, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Pennsylvania must stop discarding mail ballots over envelope date errors, striking down a practice that has voided thousands of votes. August 27, 2025 View Details A day after his massive civil fraud fine was overturned, Trump asked New York’s highest court to toss remaining penalties, including bans on him and his sons running companies. August 27, 2025 View Details A federal judge rejected Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan’s immunity claim in a case accusing her of helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE at the courthouse. August 27, 2025 View Details A Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against all 15 Maryland federal judges, ruling the executive cannot sue the judiciary for exercising judicial power. August 27, 2025 View Details Justice Department tells Supreme Court only Congress can contest Trump’s withholding of foreign aid, advancing his effort to strengthen executive control over congressional spending appropriations. August 27, 2025 View Details A veteran was arrested for burning a flag near the White House hours after Trump signed an order directing prosecutions despite a 1989 Supreme Court ruling protecting it. August 27, 2025 View Details Trump pushes to reinstate death penalty in Washington, D.C., despite the city’s 1981 repeal and a 1992 referendum when residents rejected its return. August 27, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump adviser Kari Lake and VOA officials to sit for depositions on possible defiance of court order restoring news programming. August 26, 2025 View Details Third grand jury refuses to indict DC woman on felony assault during ICE arrest, rejecting case even after judge found probable cause. August 26, 2025 View Details Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, finished before her suicide in April, will be published in October with new details on Epstein, Maxwell and Prince Andrew. August 26, 2025 View Details Utah judge orders GOP legislature to redraw congressional maps within 30 days, enforcing voter-approved Prop 4 after lawmakers’ unconstitutional bid to weaken it. August 26, 2025 View Details Trump signs orders to eliminate cashless bail in DC and cut federal funds to jurisdictions nationwide that offer it, escalating his push for control of policing. August 26, 2025 View Details Judge upholds Trump law cutting Medicaid funding from Maine clinics that provide abortions, diverging from a Massachusetts ruling that restored Planned Parenthood support nationwide. August 26, 2025 View Details Despite a 1989 Supreme Court ruling protecting flag burning as free speech, Trump orders DOJ to prosecute violators with jail and deportation penalties. August 26, 2025 View Details Trump and California Republicans move to block Newsom’s Prop 50 redistricting plan as Democrats push voter-approved mid-decade map. August 26, 2025 View Details ICE seizes Kilmar Abrego García in Baltimore days after release as Trump officials push deportation to Uganda despite court concerns. August 26, 2025 View Details Trump pressures Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley to end the blue slip veto that lets home-state senators block federal prosecutor nominations. August 25, 2025 View Details After ruling that Alina Habba was unlawfully U.S. attorney, second judge delays sentencing in New Jersey, casting prosecutions into doubt. August 24, 2025 View Details Judge strikes down Minnesota law excluding faith-based colleges from high school credit program, ruling it violated religious freedom. August 24, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding to Los Angeles, Chicago and 30 other sanctuary cities, ruling executive orders unconstitutional. August 24, 2025 View Details Attorneys say DOJ and DHS threatened Abrego Garcia with deportation to Uganda unless he pleads guilty, offering Spanish-speaking Costa Rica only if he complies. August 24, 2025 View Details Bluesky becomes first platform to quit Mississippi with state’s new age verification law upheld by Supreme Court. August 23, 2025 View Details DOJ turns over first batch of Epstein files to House Oversight panel after subpoena, with more disclosures expected. August 23, 2025 View Details In two-day interview with Deputy AG Todd Blanche, Ghislaine Maxwell denied knowing of any Epstein ‘client list’ and defended Trump’s conduct, as her attorney later clarified she still seeks clemency. August 23, 2025 View Details Trump DOJ refuses to defend Hispanic-Serving Institution grant program, calling it unconstitutional as Tennessee and Students for Fair Admissions press lawsuit. August 23, 2025 View Details Trump dismisses TikTok security concerns as ‘overrated’ and delays enforcing law upheld by Supreme Court requiring ByteDance to divest or leave US. August 23, 2025 View Details Texas Senate approves Republican-drawn congressional map giving Trump’s party up to 5 more seats as Democrats vow legal challenges. August 23, 2025 View Details FBI searches former national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office over alleged classified records as Trump presses Justice Dept to target critics. August 23, 2025 View Details Journalist sues DHS and Justice Dept after ICE keeps him jailed despite judge’s release order, citing retaliation for reporting. August 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Tennessee detainee wrongfully deported to El Salvador under Trump, while ICE signals plans to detain and deport him again. August 22, 2025 View Details New York appeals court voids Trump’s $500 million civil fraud fine as unconstitutional but upholds fraud finding, as AG James says she will appeal. August 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Alina Habba unlawfully serving as U.S. attorney in New Jersey, saying Trump’s bid to bypass Senate and judges left her without authority to prosecute. August 22, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to cut $783 million in research grants Congress had appropriated under anti-DEI push. August 22, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks expansion of the Florida internment camp and orders all detainees transferred out within 60 days after state and federal officials moved ahead without an environmental study. August 22, 2025 View Details Trump presses appeals court to clear path for mass probationary firings at IRS, despite audit showing 99.5% had passing reviews August 21, 2025 View Details Phone searches at U.S. border hit record high, with CBP inspecting 14,899 devices in three months, a 17% jump over the previous high in 2022, as Trump’s expanded enforcement fuels civil liberties concerns. August 21, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Texas Ten Commandments law in 11 districts, citing precedent from Louisiana case August 21, 2025 View Details Appeals court lets Trump end protections for 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal, clearing mass deportations despite years of legal residence and U.S.-born families. August 21, 2025 View Details Third federal judge rejects Trump DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury records, calling it a diversion from 100,000 pages of files the government already collected. August 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Justice Dept to explain Trump administration subpoenas seeking trans minors’ patient records under dubious legal theories after Children’s Hospital warns of trauma. August 21, 2025 View Details Texas House Republicans approve mid-decade gerrymander adding 5 GOP U.S. House seats after Democrats’ two-week walkout under Trump pressure. August 21, 2025 View Details Unsealed Smartmatic filings show Jeanine Pirro boosted Trump and GOP while Fox host, texting RNC chair “I work so hard for the party.” August 20, 2025 View Details Federal judge certifies all former USAID employees and contractors in class action over Musk, DOGE shutdown plan August 20, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Mississippi’s DEI ban law indefinitely, citing threats to free speech, academic freedom, and due process in schools. August 20, 2025 View Details Lawyers argue Trump administration pursued selective and vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after wrongful deportation to El Salvador. August 20, 2025 View Details Trump administration restores public spending database after court order, but Democrats warn budget office may still be concealing funding details. August 20, 2025 View Details Newsmax pays $67 million to settle Dominion defamation lawsuit over 2020 election lies after judge found network defamed company. August 19, 2025 View Details Trump administration presses to complete 10,000 HHS layoffs after Supreme Court backing, challenging judge’s injunction as executive authority fight deepens. August 19, 2025 View Details House Speaker Mike Johnson vows to stop Newsom’s California redistricting as an “illegal power grab” while ignoring Texas doing the same. August 19, 2025 View Details Texas Democrats ordered to sign police surveillance agreements as they return from walkout, clearing way for Trump-backed redistricting. August 19, 2025 View Details Judge denies bid by San Carlos Apache Tribe and allies to halt Oak Flat land transfer for copper mine, clearing way for appeal before deadline next week. August 17, 2025 View Details Government papers left in Alaska hotel printer expose Trump-Putin summit details, fueling ongoing security concerns over administration’s handling of sensitive information. August 17, 2025 View Details Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expands restraining order to block Beto O’Rourke’s group and ActBlue from moving funds after $1M donations to Democrats. August 17, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules FTC investigation of Media Matters violates First Amendment and halts probe tied to Musk advertising boycott case. August 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge rejects Trump administration’s bid to end Flores settlement protecting immigrant children, citing lack of new evidence and ongoing violations. August 16, 2025 View Details Press groups accuse LAPD of violating judge’s order protecting journalists by striking and arresting reporters at Aug. 8 protest. August 16, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court lifts block on CFPB mass layoffs, allowing agency to move forward with drastic staffing cuts. August 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks enforcement in Maryland of Education Department rule limiting diversity and equity programs, citing failure to follow required process. August 15, 2025 View Details Justice Kagan says Mississippi’s social media age-verification law is likely unconstitutional but Supreme Court lets it take effect for now. August 15, 2025 View Details Woman pleads guilty to assault after spitting on acting U.S. attorney and attacking deputy marshals during her arrest. August 15, 2025 View Details Hennepin County attorney announces grand jury indictment charging Boelter with murdering former Minnesota House speaker and her husband and attempting four more killings. August 15, 2025 View Details Attorney General Bondi names DEA head Terry Cole emergency police commissioner for DC as city mayor, attorney general and council declare the order unlawful. August 15, 2025 View Details Maine Family Planning sues Trump administration to restore Medicaid funds lost after independent clinics were swept into national Planned Parenthood defunding policy. August 14, 2025 View Details Illinois judge rejects Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to arrest Democrats who fled the state to block redistricting. August 14, 2025 View Details Judge Rita Lin orders Trump administration to restore UCLA’s National Science Foundation grants after rejecting distinction between suspensions and terminations. August 13, 2025 View Details Judge Lewis Kaplan orders ICE to improve Manhattan immigration facility after government admits detainees lack beds, sleeping mats and adequate meals. August 13, 2025 View Details Appeals court lifts block on DOGE accessing personal data of taxpayers, student loan borrowers and federal employees despite union privacy concerns. August 13, 2025 View Details Russia suspected in July hack of federal courts databases that may have compromised confidential informants in criminal cases. August 13, 2025 View Details Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asks judge to jail Beto O’Rourke for violating injunction against fundraising for Democratic redistricting walkout. August 13, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court orders Trump budget office to restore spending transparency website by Friday after separation of powers dispute. August 12, 2025 View Details California challenges Trump’s federalization of National Guard for immigration raids as constitutional overreach in federal trial. August 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge rejects Justice Department request to unseal Maxwell grand jury materials despite Trump supporter pressure over Epstein files. August 12, 2025 View Details Justice Department renews bid to unseal Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts three weeks after first filing, citing transparency after victim pressure and subpoenas. August 10, 2025 View Details OPM orders agencies to expunge federal workers’ COVID vaccine noncompliance and exemption records hours after a Texas court dismissed Feds for Medical Freedom’s mandate suit. August 10, 2025 View Details Democracy Forward sues Trump administration to force release of Epstein investigation records withheld by Justice Department and FBI. August 9, 2025 View Details Texas AG Ken Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to expel Democrats whose walkout stalled redistricting vote. August 9, 2025 View Details Appeals court vacates contempt finding against Trump administration for deporting Venezuelan migrants under wartime law while limiting judicial reach. August 9, 2025 View Details Justice Department asks Supreme Court to lift Los Angeles immigration raid limits, calling a federal judge’s order a straitjacket that bars language or employment factors. August 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge pauses construction for two weeks at Florida’s Dade-Collier immigration detention center after environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe allege NEPA violations. August 8, 2025 View Details Wayne County judge halts hazardous waste shipments from five states to Wayne Disposal landfill in Michigan, citing environmental risks from Army Corps cleanup sites. August 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump birthright citizenship order nationwide, citing likely 14th Amendment violations, the fourth block since the Supreme Court’s June ruling. August 8, 2025 View Details Federal agents in “Operation Trojan Horse” burst from rented Penske truck at Los Angeles area Home Depot on Aug 6 five days after appeals court upheld ban on indiscriminate raids. August 7, 2025 View Details Federal court filing system hacked exposing confidential informant identities across multiple states. August 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from canceling humanities grants citing constitutional violation of congressional spending power. August 7, 2025 View Details Trump’s reciprocal tariffs adding 10% to 41% on top of existing duties take effect despite ongoing court challenge to authority. August 7, 2025 View Details Tennessee executed intellectually disabled Byron Black despite defibrillator warnings, with inmate reporting severe pain attorneys predicted during lethal injection. August 6, 2025 View Details Judge halts Trump administration from redirecting over $4 billion in FEMA mitigation funding. August 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders officials to reveal who has legal authority over Everglades detention camp holding hundreds without charges. August 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge will decide if unusual maneuver by Pam Bondi to keep Alina Habba as New Jersey prosecutor after other judges replaced her is constitutional. August 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s expedited deportations of migrants who entered legally through humanitarian parole programs as policy deemed likely illegal. August 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge allows NSF to continue withholding hundreds of millions from researchers after Trump administration cut grants targeting misinformation and diversity programs. August 2, 2025 View Details Ninth Circuit upholds restrictions requiring Trump immigration agents establish reasonable suspicion beyond language or job for detentions in Los Angeles. August 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge delays Trump’s termination of temporary protected status for migrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua until November, citing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s racist comments. August 1, 2025 View Details DC ethics board urges disbarment of Trump ally Jeffrey Clark for pressuring DOJ to back false 2020 election fraud claims. August 1, 2025 View Details Eleven-judge federal appeals panel questions Trump’s claim that the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act lets him impose sweeping tariffs without Congress. August 1, 2025 View Details House Democrats sue Trump administration for week-notice rule restricting unannounced ICE detention inspections, citing law guaranteeing congressional access. July 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge halts Trump order sanctioning Americans assisting the International Criminal Court, calling it an unconstitutional speech restraint. July 31, 2025 View Details Judge Lamberth demands Trump administration justify ignoring order to revive Voice of America and account for $260 million budget by Aug. 13. July 31, 2025 View Details Virginia court blocks eight Youngkin university board appointees from serving after Senate committee rejected their confirmations in June. July 30, 2025 View Details Senate Republicans confirm former Trump lawyer Emil Bove to lifetime appeals court position despite three whistleblowers alleging he told subordinates to ignore court orders. July 30, 2025 View Details Trump administration extends controversial U.S. Attorney appointments to prevent federal courts from rejecting them after 100 retired judges oppose Nevada pick. July 30, 2025 View Details California leads 23 Democratic states suing Trump administration to permanently block Planned Parenthood funding cuts after federal judge temporarily halted them Monday. July 30, 2025 View Details Third whistleblower contradicts judicial nominee Emil Bove’s testimony about telling Justice Department staff to ignore court orders on deportations. July 29, 2025 View Details Texas sues New York clerk for protecting local doctor from $100,000 fine over abortion pills prescribed to Texas patient. July 29, 2025 View Details 9th Circuit judges press Trump administration to confirm Stephen Miller’s announced 3,000 daily deportation quota after ruling it could prompt unconstitutional sweeps. July 29, 2025 View Details Maxwell appeals to Supreme Court and Trump for intervention after receiving limited immunity during two days of Justice Department interviews discussing roughly 100 different people. July 29, 2025 View Details Defense attorney challenges criminal charges over Trump administration’s illegal workaround to keep Alina Habba as New Jersey U.S. attorney after judges replaced her. July 29, 2025 View Details Civil rights lawyers seek restraining order against Everglades immigration detention center over detainees held without charges and barred from legal access. July 29, 2025 View Details Judge Indira Talwani orders continued Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood after ruling Trump’s targeted exclusion likely unconstitutional. July 29, 2025 View Details Second whistleblower claims Emil Bove, now nominated for lifetime judgeship, advised Justice Department attorneys to ignore court orders during March deportations. July 28, 2025 View Details DeSantis announces 100 deportations completed from Everglades facility while planning to deputize state officers as immigration judges to dramatically increase removals. July 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against Illinois sanctuary policies, ruling federal government cannot compel states to serve as immigration enforcement tools. July 26, 2025 View Details Third federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide, rejecting administration’s attempt to strip constitutional rights through executive power. July 26, 2025 View Details Supreme Court blocks 8th Circuit ruling that would strip private enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. July 25, 2025 View Details Judge weighs disciplinary action against DOJ lawyers over Venezuelan deportations, citing whistleblower evidence they may have defied court orders. July 25, 2025 View Details Trump administration targets four DOE sites to fast‑track AI data centers using federal land and bypass environmental reviews. July 25, 2025 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court to revive NIH grant cancellations after Massachusetts judge ruled hundreds were illegal and ordered their restoration. July 25, 2025 View Details Trump now claims his $16 million settlement with Paramount comes with $20 million in future advertising, a term the company denies while still seeking his administration’s merger approval. July 24, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks ICE from immediately detaining man wrongly deported despite court protection as DHS calls judge “unhinged” and “lawless.” July 24, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to fire Biden-appointed consumer safety commissioners despite 90-year precedent protecting agency independence. July 24, 2025 View Details Florida judge rejects Trump administration request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts following supporter pressure. July 24, 2025 View Details Ninth Circuit upholds nationwide block of Trump order redefining birthright citizenship despite Supreme Court limiting such injunctions. July 24, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court will let White House restrictions on the Associated Press stand, leaving in place a punishment for the outlet’s refusal to adopt the term ‘Gulf of America.’ July 23, 2025 View Details The Trump administration is halting student loan forgiveness for the long-standing Income-Based Repayment plan, citing court orders against a separate program. July 23, 2025 View Details Colorado’s AG is suing a deputy for helping ICE detain a student for two weeks in violation of the state’s sanctuary law. July 23, 2025 View Details A U.S. appeals court voided New Jersey’s ban on private ICE detention, aiding the Trump administration’s nationwide expansion plans. July 23, 2025 View Details The Justice Department fired a career prosecutor hours after federal judges appointed her to replace interim U.S. attorney and Trump loyalist Alina Habba. July 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge has partially blocked a Trump administration law to defund Planned Parenthood, shielding some clinics while the legal fight continues. July 22, 2025 View Details Despite a judge ruling his order against Jenner & Block was unconstitutional, Trump is appealing as part of his ongoing campaign against major law firms. July 22, 2025 View Details As the Harvard funding trial opens, Trump attacks the judge as a ‘TOTAL DISASTER’ and vows to appeal if the administration loses. July 22, 2025 View Details Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by the Trump administration once before, have now asked a judge to keep him in jail to prevent a second deportation. July 22, 2025 View Details 21 Democratic AGs are suing to block a Trump rule cutting immigrant access to health, housing, and Head Start that the White House claims saves $40B. July 22, 2025 View Details Federal judges accuse the Trump administration of defying court orders in one-third of major rulings against it, a new analysis finds. July 22, 2025 View Details A federal judge rebuked Trump’s DOJ for seeking leniency and sentenced ex-detective Brett Hankison to 33 months for his role in the killing of Breonna Taylor. July 22, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to “stop violating the law!” and restore a public database detailing government spending. July 22, 2025 View Details Secretary of State Rubio revokes visas for Brazilian Supreme Court judges and their families over prosecutions of Trump ally Bolsonaro and X platform ban. July 20, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order sanctioning International Criminal Court workers investigating US allies as unconstitutional speech restriction. July 19, 2025 View Details Judge dismisses Trump’s $49 million lawsuit against Woodward claiming copyright over audio of interviews Trump gave for 2020 book. July 19, 2025 View Details Federal judge overturns Trump’s firing of Democratic FTC commissioner, ruling it violated agency independence protections. July 18, 2025 View Details Senate panel advances Trump nominees Bove and Pirro after Democrats walk out over allegations Bove told staff to defy court orders. July 18, 2025 View Details Attorneys sue Trump administration to restore deportation protections for 150,000 abused migrant children. July 18, 2025 View Details Trump administration defies federal court order to disclose planned layoffs across 17 agencies, claiming RIF details are privileged information. July 17, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court reinstates Arkansas ban on race-related curriculum in K-12 schools after lower court had blocked enforcement of education law. July 17, 2025 View Details Federal judge delays ruling on releasing legal U.S. resident Kilmar Ábrego García from jail after Trump administration threatens deportation if he’s freed pending trial. July 17, 2025 View Details Over 900 former Justice Department attorneys urge Senate to reject Emil Bove’s federal judgeship nomination, citing his role in politicizing DOJ and defying court orders. July 17, 2025 View Details Florida authorities wrongly arrested two people under state immigration law more than a month after federal judge halted its enforcement, triggering required contempt reporting. July 17, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court blocks Trump administration’s attempt to unilaterally revoke green cards, ruling Justice Department exceeded congressional authority in separation of powers violation. July 17, 2025 View Details The Justice Dept sues three fired Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members who refuse to leave, citing its independence from presidential control. July 16, 2025 View Details HHS fired thousands of employees at the FDA, CDC, and NIH just days after a Supreme Court ruling allowed the workforce reduction plan to proceed. July 16, 2025 View Details The Trump administration exiled five migrants to the African nation of Eswatini, citing a recent and controversial Supreme Court order on third-country removals. July 16, 2025 View Details A Seattle judge ordered the Trump administration to admit approximately 80 refugees, ruling the president’s travel ban overstepped his executive authority. July 16, 2025 View Details The Justice Dept fired at least 17 immigration judges during a nationwide deportation push, a move the union says will worsen the system’s 3.6 million case backlog. July 16, 2025 View Details The Pentagon is recalling half the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles to support immigration enforcement during an ongoing legal fight between Governor Newsom and Trump. July 16, 2025 View Details Citing the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed West Virginia’s authority to restrict the abortion pill mifepristone beyond federal FDA regulations. July 16, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to cut 1,400 Education Department jobs despite states’ lawsuit challenging agency dismantling efforts. July 15, 2025 View Details Over 20 states sue Trump administration for freezing billions in after-school and summer program funding that serves 1.4 million children. July 15, 2025 View Details Judge orders release of Iranian student arrested for deportation through police trick, citing unconstitutional arrest and valid student visa. July 15, 2025 View Details Senate confirms Trump’s first new judge of second term in party-line vote, replacing Obama appointee with conservative who defended Tennessee abortion ban. July 15, 2025 View Details Federal judges reject Trump’s interim U.S. attorney for Northern New York in unusual move day before appointment expires. July 15, 2025 View Details Appeals court temporarily blocks Trump administration from ending deportation protections for 11,700 Afghans day before scheduled termination. July 15, 2025 View Details Noem accuses Biden-appointed judge of “getting political” after ruling blocked ICE operations targeting people by race, language and employment in California. July 14, 2025 View Details Trump threatens to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship despite 1967 Supreme Court ruling barring government from stripping native-born Americans’ rights. July 13, 2025 View Details ICE memo authorizes exile to non-citizen countries with six hours notice after Supreme Court cleared path around federal judge’s safety protections. July 13, 2025 View Details ICE official testifies administration could deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Mexico or South Sudan after Supreme Court ordered his return from wrongful El Salvador deportation. July 11, 2025 View Details Florida Democratic lawmakers sue DeSantis for denying legislative access to immigrant detention center in the Everglades. July 11, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court upholds jury verdict finding Trump guilty of sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. July 11, 2025 View Details Senate Democrats release whistleblower texts showing Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove advised telling court ‘fuck you’ after he denied to Congress that he told staff to ignore court orders. July 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues nationwide block of Trump birthright citizenship order by certifying class action to circumvent recent Supreme Court limits on such injunctions. July 11, 2025 View Details Trump administration used shadowy Canary Mission website to target more than 75 pro-Palestinian academics for deportation with Stephen Miller leading weekly calls on the effort. July 10, 2025 View Details Judge orders Jan. 6 rally organizer Caroline Wren to pay $2,000 daily until she complies with subpoena for records in Capitol Police lawsuit against Trump. July 10, 2025 View Details Supreme Court refuses to let Florida enforce new immigration law making it a misdemeanor for people in country illegally to enter the state. July 10, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court blocks “click to cancel” rule days before taking effect, striking down requirement that businesses make subscription cancellations as easy as sign-ups. July 10, 2025 View Details Kennedy abruptly cancels preventive services task force meeting without explanation after Supreme Court ruling affirmed he can remove members and veto recommendations July 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s $800 million grant cancellations for violence programs despite calling the action “shameful.” July 9, 2025 View Details Supreme Court lifts lower court block on Trump’s mass federal worker layoffs at 22 agencies after Justice Department seeks emergency relief from reorganization injunction. July 9, 2025 View Details Federal trial begins challenging Trump crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists as university groups argue administration violates First Amendment through deportation threats. July 8, 2025 View Details Judge compares DOJ explanations on illegal Abrego Garcia deportation to “nailing jello to a wall” as administration contradicts itself on timeline and future plans, orders government witness for Thursday. July 8, 2025 View Details Trump ends 27-year deportation protections for 76,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans despite federal courts blocking similar TPS terminations for Venezuelans and Haitians. July 8, 2025 View Details Judge temporarily blocks Planned Parenthood defunding in Trump megabill hours after lawsuit filed, marking first successful challenge to legislation. July 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration completes exile and imprisonment of 8 men to war-torn South Sudan after Supreme Court overruled lower court protections. July 6, 2025 View Details Planned Parenthood vows to sue Trump administration over provision in megabill that blocks Medicaid funding for one year. July 4, 2025 View Details Appeals court allows Trump to fire Democratic Federal Labor Relations Authority member pending appeal, undermining federal union protections. July 4, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to deport eight migrants held in shipping container for six weeks to South Sudan despite seven having no ties there. July 4, 2025 View Details Missouri judge lifts state abortion ban with preliminary injunction allowing Planned Parenthood to resume services Monday. July 4, 2025 View Details Palestinian woman released after nearly five months in ICE detention following government attempts to deport her despite federal court order that officials called “honest mistake.” July 3, 2025 View Details Court filing details severe beatings and psychological torture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at El Salvador prison including 31-pound weight loss and forced kneeling for nine hours nightly. July 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump exceeded constitutional authority with asylum ban and “invasion” proclamation as court gives administration 14 days to appeal before forcing resumption of asylum processing. July 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues 103-page ruling blasting “newly-minted war” against health research as systematic discrimination after finding officials illegally canceled grants based on race, gender and ideology. July 3, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to override federal courts and fire Consumer Product Safety commissioners despite legal protections designed to shield independent agencies from political interference. July 3, 2025 View Details Wisconsin’s liberal-controlled Supreme Court strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban in 4-3 ruling as conservative justices accuse majority of “raw exercise of political power.” July 3, 2025 View Details Twenty states sue Trump administration for allegedly sharing millions of Medicaid beneficiaries’ health data with ICE in violation of HIPAA and federal privacy laws. July 2, 2025 View Details Rhode Island federal judge blocks Kennedy’s plan to lay off 10,000 HHS workers after he admitted rushing cuts to capitalize on “political momentum” rather than evaluating employees. July 2, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court rejects Trump request to re-detain Georgetown researcher while criticizing government for moving him across states to evade court jurisdiction. July 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from ending temporary protected status for 500,000 Haitians five months early after ruling the acceleration violates federal law. July 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling African Development Foundation after ruling his appointment of Pete Marocco violated law requiring Senate confirmation. July 2, 2025 View Details Democratic cities sue Trump administration over new Obamacare restrictions that the government estimates will cause up to 1.8 million Americans to lose health insurance. July 2, 2025 View Details Trump appeals ruling that blocked his executive order stripping Perkins Coie’s clients of federal access, after judges found his actions targeted political enemies and violated constitutional protections. July 1, 2025 View Details Trump and CBS-Paramount in advanced settlement talks over 60 Minutes lawsuit as network needs administration approval for Skydance merger. July 1, 2025 View Details Salvadoran man’s release delayed after months of public targeting by Trump and Noem who threaten to immediately re-deport him despite court orders. July 1, 2025 View Details Trump administration sues Los Angeles, Mayor Bass and City Council over sanctuary city policies claiming they obstruct federal immigration enforcement. July 1, 2025 View Details GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin says U.S. citizen children should be deported with undocumented parents after Supreme Court allows Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions in some states. June 30, 2025 View Details Conservative appeals court to hear challenge to Trump’s use of 1798 wartime law for Venezuelan deportations after most federal courts rule president violated Alien Enemies Act. June 30, 2025 View Details Appeals court allows Trump and DOGE to proceed with hostile takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace even though judge found they used “brute force” to seize headquarters. June 29, 2025 View Details Roberts warns anti-judge rhetoric leads to violence but refuses to name Trump despite his attacks calling federal judges “Communists” and demanding their impeachment. June 29, 2025 View Details Newsom sues Fox News for $787 million over misleadingly edited Trump video, matching their Dominion settlement for false election claims. June 28, 2025 View Details Supreme Court’s conservative majority rules parents can remove children from classes with LGBTQ books in 6-3 decision. June 28, 2025 View Details Kilmar Abrego Garcia stays jailed as Justice Dept. agrees to delay release order over fears Trump administration might deport him before trial. June 28, 2025 View Details Judge permanently blocks Trump’s order punishing Susman Godfrey for defending Dominion Voting Systems and promoting racial diversity. June 28, 2025 View Details Supreme Court’s 6 to 3 decision voids nationwide injunctions, clearing Trump’s bid to deny birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants in most of the United States. June 28, 2025 View Details Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling keeps ACA preventive-care coverage intact and confirms HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can override the task force deciding which services insurers must cover. June 28, 2025 View Details State Department plans layoffs of 1,900 employees as early as Friday despite federal judge’s order barring workforce cuts. June 27, 2025 View Details Retired Reagan-appointed Justice Kennedy warns democracy and freedom “at risk” as federal judges face over 400 threats this year following Trump’s attacks. June 27, 2025 View Details Supreme Court eliminates Medicaid patients’ right to sue over provider restrictions, allowing South Carolina to defund Planned Parenthood in state facing healthcare deserts. June 27, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump order stripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, citing plausible First Amendment retaliation against union speech. June 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Labor Department’s shutdown of 120 Job Corps sites, ruling agency can’t “do as it pleases” when Congress funded program. June 26, 2025 View Details Justice Department sues Minnesota over college tuition program, claiming state treats U.S. citizens as “second-class” by giving undocumented immigrants in-state rates. June 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge calls Trump’s $200 financial reporting rule “arbitrary and capricious,” blocking it for El Paso money service businesses facing closure. June 26, 2025 View Details Judge keeps Abrego Garcia jailed while Justice Department and ICE clash over whether to prosecute him for 2022 human smuggling charges filed after his mistaken deportation or deport him again. June 26, 2025 View Details Trump administration sues all 15 Maryland federal judges over order blocking immigrant deportations, calling it “egregious overreach.” June 26, 2025 View Details Trump appeals court nominee Bove denies to Senate that he told Justice Dept. lawyers to ignore court orders on deportations after whistleblower complaint. June 26, 2025 View Details Christian and other faith leaders sue Texas education agency over law requiring Ten Commandments displays in all public school classrooms. June 26, 2025 View Details Trump demands Israel cancel Netanyahu’s corruption trial, calling it a “witch hunt” against his longtime ally. June 26, 2025 View Details Over 20 state attorneys general sue Trump administration for using obscure five-word clause to justify billions in federal funding cuts they claim bypasses Congress. June 25, 2025 View Details Trump appeals $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict claiming presidential immunity after previously waiving it and telling court she could “pursue this action when the president is no longer in office.” June 25, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court orders Trump administration to return Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, Salvadoran man deported minutes after court blocked his removal. June 25, 2025 View Details Fired DOJ lawyer alleges Trump’s former personal attorney Emil Bove told subordinates to consider ignoring court orders day before confirmation hearing for lifetime federal appeals court judgeship. June 25, 2025 View Details Biden-appointed judge blocks Trump from withholding $5 billion in EV charger funds after administration ignored government watchdog finding it violated law. June 25, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s June 4 proclamation banning Harvard international students after his May 22 attempt was also blocked, ruling both are retaliation for university’s refusal to screen applicants for political beliefs. June 24, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to deport migrants to third countries without due process after administration repeatedly violated lower court orders, prompting Sotomayor to accuse colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness.” June 24, 2025 View Details Senate parliamentarian strikes down multiple Trump megabill provisions including state immigration enforcement and limits on court contempt powers, effectively killing measures Republicans can’t pass without Democratic support. June 24, 2025 View Details Federal judge demands written compliance report by Friday after Trump administration fails to disclose Voice of America layoffs despite court order blocking dismantling. June 24, 2025 View Details Senate parliamentarian strikes down GOP provision that would have limited courts’ ability to hold Trump officials in contempt. There have been 190 rulings against the administration since January. June 23, 2025 View Details Federal judge grants bail to Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador prison due to Trump administration’s admitted “administrative error” but notes he will likely remain in ICE custody. June 23, 2025 View Details Trump-nominated judge gives academic award to University of Florida law student who argued Constitution applies only to white people and called for removing non-white voting rights. June 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks NSF’s arbitrary 15% cap on university research funding after Trump administration slashed typical reimbursement rates from 50-65%. June 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump’s ban on Harvard hosting foreign students in retaliation campaign after university rejected White House demands on campus policies. June 21, 2025 View Details Justice Jackson accuses Supreme Court of favoring moneyed interests over ordinary citizens in fuel industry victory against EPA emissions rules. June 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge frees Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil after 104 days in immigration detention despite Trump administration claims his presence threatens foreign policy. June 21, 2025 View Details Trump’s CFPB drops 18 enforcement cases against predatory lenders including Credit Acceptance which profits from borrower failures while vulnerable consumers face thousands in judgments. June 21, 2025 View Details Supreme Court declines to fast-track challenge to Trump’s emergency tariffs, keeping congressional bypass in place while toy companies report rising prices. June 21, 2025 View Details Judge orders briefs on whether Trump’s federalized troops in LA violate the Posse Comitatus Act after appeals court backs deployment. June 21, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s bid to tie billions in state transit grants to ICE cooperation before June 20 deadline. June 20, 2025 View Details Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk voids Biden HHS rule shielding abortion and gender care records from prosecutors and says expanded HIPAA privacy exceeds agency authority. June 20, 2025 View Details Federal Judge Adam Abelson halts Trump EPA bid to kill $600 million environmental justice grants for underserved communities from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. June 20, 2025 View Details Appeals court says Trump lawfully federalized CA National Guard after immigration raid protests, overriding Gov. Newsom and marking first presidential takeover since 1965. June 20, 2025 View Details College student Caroline Dias Goncalves granted bond after ICE illegally used drug interdiction online chat to arrest merit scholarship recipient with no criminal record. June 19, 2025 FL Attorney General Uthmeier held in civil contempt for defying federal court order halting immigration law, must now file biweekly reports or face fines. June 19, 2025 View Details Supreme Court upholds state transgender care bans for minors in 6-3 ruling, with Sotomayor reading rare dissent comparing majority’s deference to past defenses of interracial marriage bans. June 19, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Nuclear Regulatory Commission to override Texas and New Mexico governors’ opposition for temporary nuclear waste storage sites. June 19, 2025 View Details Toy companies ask Supreme Court for urgent review of Trump tariffs after lower courts ruled them unlawful but administration continues collecting billions from American businesses. June 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge expands injunction blocking Trump from restricting passport sex markers for transgender and nonbinary Americans, citing constitutional equal protection violations. June 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from unconstitutionally cutting congressionally-approved CDC funding to four Democratic cities. June 18, 2025 View Details Jury orders MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to pay $2.3 million in damages for calling Dominion executive Eric Coomer “traitor” over debunked 2020 election fraud claims. June 17, 2025 View Details Reagan-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s cancellation of $1 billion in NIH diversity research grants illegal, calling it “palpable” racial discrimination. June 17, 2025 View Details Twenty Willkie Farr attorneys depart for Cooley after Willkie pledged $100 million to avoid Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders while Cooley fights the same orders in court. June 14, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court declines to rehear Trump’s challenge to $5 million E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, with two Trump-appointed judges dissenting from refusal to reconsider case. June 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks State Department’s planned 3,400 layoffs after Trump administration claims diplomatic agency exempt from court injunction on workforce cuts. June 14, 2025 View Details Kilmar Ábrego García pleads not guilty to smuggling charges after Trump administration wrongfully deported him against court orders, then brought him back to face prosecution. June 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump administration’s foreign policy grounds for detaining Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil unconstitutional but allows continued detention on technical immigration charges. June 14, 2025 View Details Second federal judge rules Trump’s voting executive order violates Constitution because president lacks election powers, blocks citizenship document and mail ballot provisions. June 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump overstepped his authority by firing three Consumer Product Safety commissioners without legal cause, orders immediate reinstatement. June 14, 2025 View Details Environmental groups sue Trump EPA over exemptions granted to 68 coal plants from mercury pollution rules, claiming many already meet the standards. June 14, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed judges allow ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project to proceed despite finding environmental law violations, citing economic disruption concerns. June 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Harvard researcher detained 4 months for bringing undeclared frog embryos for cancer research. June 13, 2025 View Details Federal judge transfers deportation case for Boulder attack suspect’s family to Texas after blocking Trump administration’s expedited removal attempt. June 13, 2025 View Details Defense Secretary Hegseth refuses to commit to following court rulings on LA National Guard and Marine deployment during House Armed Services Committee testimony. June 13, 2025 View Details Breaking overnight: Appeals court blocks ruling through at least Tuesday that would have returned CA National Guard to state control, keeping Trump’s federal deployment for immigration raids. June 13, 2025 View Details Trump seeks to move hush-money conviction appeal to federal court claiming presidential immunity, while prosecutors argue timing makes transfer impossible. June 12, 2025 View Details San Diego lawsuit challenges Trump’s shutdown of asylum processing at border crossings, saying administration “pulled the rug out” from migrants who had scheduled appointments and followed legal migration rules. June 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge says Trump administration cannot detain green card holder Mahmoud Khalil over pro-Palestinian activism, gives government until Friday to appeal or he could release him. June 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules OPM broke law by giving DOGE illegal access to federal employee databases used for buyout offers and weekly accomplishment demands. June 11, 2025 View Details Appeals court pauses order requiring due process for 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison under wartime Alien Enemies Act without hearings. June 11, 2025 View Details Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act as LA Mayor Bass imposes downtown curfew after looting while judge schedules Thursday hearing on Newsom’s federal challenge. June 11, 2025 View Details MT Supreme Court strikes down 2021 GOP abortion restrictions as unconstitutional as anti-abortion groups file same-day lawsuit challenging voter-approved constitutional amendment. June 11, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court allows Trump to keep tariffs in place through July 31 despite lower court ruling that the levies are illegal. June 11, 2025 View Details 16 states sue Trump administration over deal to allow sale of rapid-fire triggers and return seized devices to owners, arguing it violates federal law. June 10, 2025 View Details MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell takes stand in defamation trial by Dominion voting machine executive, doubles down on attacks while claiming his company is “on the razor’s edge” financially. June 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to reconsider cases of migrant children stuck in custody more than 7 months on average under Trump’s new sponsor requirements that prohibit foreign documents. ` June 10, 2025 View Details Trump administration fights WI judge’s bid to dismiss charges for allegedly helping man evade ICE agents, saying judicial immunity claim would put judges “above the law.” June 10, 2025 View Details Trump seeks removal from New Hampshire lawsuit challenging his transgender sports ban after federal judge allows two teen girls to keep playing while case proceeds. June 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge gives Apache tribes 60 days after environmental review to challenge sacred land transfer to mining company for congressionally authorized copper mine. June 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge on Sunday declines to block Trump’s firing of three public broadcasting board members but acknowledges Congress intended to limit presidential control over the corporation. June 9, 2025 View Details Wichita and Washoe tribes sue federal government for using $23.3 billion in Native trust funds to finance abusive boarding schools that harmed their children. June 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration returns El Salvador deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia to face federal smuggling indictment after months of resisting Supreme Court order to facilitate his return. June 8, 2025 View Details Democrats block Trump Justice nominee citing “Vance precedent” after current VP spent months obstructing Biden prosecutors as senator. June 7, 2025 View Details Appeals court allows Trump to bar Associated Press from Oval Office and Air Force One events over news outlet’s refusal to use “Gulf of America” name in coverage. June 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge clears way for Trump to dismantle Institute of Museum and Library Services, reversing earlier order as ongoing legal battles continue over agency funding libraries nationwide. June 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overturn injunction blocking layoffs of 1,400 Education Department employees, roughly half the agency’s workforce, after lower courts ruled mass firings would disable agency. June 7, 2025 View Details Proud Boys leaders sue DOJ for $100 million over Jan. 6 prosecutions after Trump pardons, forcing his administration to defend Biden-era seditious conspiracy convictions. June 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court lifts injunction blocking Trump’s DOGE from accessing Social Security data, overriding privacy protections despite three justices’ dissent. June 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court unanimously rules straight woman can pursue workplace discrimination claim without meeting higher legal standard than minority groups. June 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders administration to restore hundreds of millions in AmeriCorps funding and thousands of service positions in 24 states that sued over abrupt cuts. June 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks administration proclamation banning Harvard international students from entering US four hours after university filed retaliation complaint. June 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks ICE from detaining Columbia student and permanent US resident facing deportation to South Korea over pro-Palestinian protest participation. June 6, 2025 View Details Immigration judge grants $2,000 bail to Milford High School student detained by ICE for five days in mistaken arrest targeting his undocumented father. June 6, 2025 View Details Peruvian woman acquitted of entering militarized border zone in first trial of Trump administration’s new prosecution strategy against immigrants. June 6, 2025 View Details DNI Tulsi Gabbard installs top adviser in intelligence watchdog’s office investigating the use of secret messaging apps in U.S. military operations. June 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks enforcement of Biden-era rules requiring Catholic employers and health providers to offer gender-affirming care, citing religious freedom and limiting federal agencies’ reach. June 6, 2025 View Details Rubio announces sanctions on four ICC judges for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli leaders and probing alleged U.S. war crimes, drawing ICC condemnation. June 6, 2025 View Details PA Gov. Shapiro sues USDA over cancellation of food program that paid 180 state farms $13 million to provide fresh produce to food banks. June 5, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court upholds judge’s order blocking Trump from dismantling Education Dept and requiring reinstatement of 1,300 employees after Justice Dept sought swift ruling to rush case to Supreme Court. June 5, 2025 View Details Judge blocks private prison company CoreCivic from housing ICE detainees at shuttered 1,033-bed Leavenworth facility after city sued over company’s refusal to get required permits. June 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks deportation of Boulder antisemitic attack suspect’s wife and five children after immigration officials detained the family despite their pending asylum case. June 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to allow migrants sent to El Salvador mega-prison under Alien Enemies Act to challenge their removal after significant evidence emerged many have no gang connections. June 5, 2025 View Details Guatemalan man wrongly deported to Mexico without due process finally returns to U.S. more than a week after federal judge ordered Trump administration to fly him back. June 5, 2025 View Details Judge dismisses Democratic lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order asserting greater control over traditionally independent agencies like the FEC, ruling the case too speculative without evidence of interference. June 4, 2025 View Details Newark mayor sues interim U.S. attorney Alina Habba for false arrest during May visit to immigration detention center, claiming agents assaulted him and congressional delegation on orders to “take him down.” June 4, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court again to overturn federal workforce cuts injunction after appeals court warns downsizing threatens food safety and veterans’ health care. June 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from dissolving TSA union contract, ruling administration sought to “punish” workers for challenging workforce policies in court. June 3, 2025 View Details California’s lawsuit challenging Trump’s tariff authority is dismissed on jurisdictional grounds while Newsom celebrates other courts striking down the levies by saying “it’s raining tacos today.” June 3, 2025 View Details Commerce Secretary Lutnick says “tariffs are not going away” after appeals court restores Trump’s global duties pending appeals of trade court ruling that president exceeded his authority. June 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking protected status for 5,000 Venezuelans who received paperwork during brief January-February extension window. June 1, 2025 View Details California Senate launches investigation into Paramount’s plan to pay Trump millions to settle $20 billion lawsuit, claiming potential bribery and threats to press freedom as company seeks merger approval. May 31, 2025 View Details PBS sues Trump administration over order revoking federal funding three days after NPR filed similar lawsuit, claiming cuts violate First Amendment through viewpoint discrimination. May 31, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole from 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. May 31, 2025 View Details Federal judge delays contempt ruling against FL AG Uthmeier after he told police the court order blocking immigration arrests didn’t apply to them. May 30, 2025 View Details Trump calls conservative legal figure Leonard Leo a “sleazebag” and blames Federalist Society for appointing judges who blocked his tariffs. May 30, 2025 View Details Supreme Court unanimously rules federal agencies don’t need to study far-reaching environmental impacts when approving major construction projects. May 30, 2025 View Details Federal judge extends order blocking Trump administration from revoking Harvard’s foreign student enrollment privileges. May 30, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court restores Trump’s tariff authority hours after lower court blocked his emergency powers, creating legal chaos around his core economic policy. May 30, 2025 View Details Judge Timothy Kelly declines to block Trump’s firing of Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter one day after her office issued report restricting AI use of copyrighted materials. May 29, 2025 View Details Federal Judge Indira Talwani orders Trump administration to lift immigration application pauses affecting 770,000 immigrants, ruling the arbitrary suspension violated federal law and threatened mass deportations. May 29, 2025 View Details The Trump administration asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite court orders and a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return. May 29, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return a deported Guatemalan asylum seeker to the U.S. after finding his removal ignored due process protections. May 29, 2025 View Details A federal judge found Trump’s effort to deport Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil likely unconstitutional, blocking his removal while a challenge proceeds. May 29, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the release of Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova from ICE custody, ruling that her arrest and visa revocation were unlawful. May 29, 2025 View Details Trump nominated DOJ official and former defense attorney Emil Bove to a federal appellate judgeship after Bove’s directive to drop charges against Eric Adams led to staff resignations. May 29, 2025 View Details Federal court blocked Trump from imposing broad tariffs under emergency powers. May 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from withholding funds to force NYC to end congestion pricing. May 28, 2025 View Details Federal judge strikes down Trump executive order targeting WilmerHale law firm as “absurd” assault on legal system. May 28, 2025 View Details Supreme Court refuses to hear Apache case, clearing way for copper mine to destroy sacred Oak Flat site. May 28, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to eliminate due process protections for deportations to South Sudan after judge blocks removals. May 28, 2025 View Details Missouri Supreme Court halts abortions again by ordering district judge to reconsider ban despite voter approval. May 28, 2025 View Details El Salvador denies Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey access to wrongly deported union worker despite Supreme Court order. May 28, 2025 View Details Judge allows Musk’s DOGE team access to Treasury payment systems after training requirements added. May 28, 2025 View Details Environmental groups sue to block Trump’s order opening Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. May 27, 2025 View Details Trump uses Memorial Day message to call political opponents “scum” while attacking judges who blocked his deportation orders as “monsters” and “USA hating.” May 27, 2025 View Details Federal judge criticizes Trump administration Monday for failing to provide due process to deportees held in Djibouti while trying to send them to war-torn South Sudan despite “do not travel” State Department warnings. May 27, 2025 View Details Trump claims Harvard’s 27% foreign students are “too much” and taking spots from Americans, repeats demand for names despite federal judge blocking DHS revocation of international student certification. May 26, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump’s retaliation against Jenner & Block after other law firms “threw in the towel” and agreed to provide $100 million in free legal services to avoid executive orders. May 24, 2025 View Details Judge denies Trump administration’s request to stay ruling that blocked DOGE from shutting down U.S. Institute of Peace, declaring the March takeover and firings “null and void.” May 24, 2025 View Details Supreme Court pauses transparency lawsuit against DOGE after watchdog groups seek to depose Musk’s staff about the secretive operations behind massive federal workforce cuts. May 24, 2025 View Details Fired Copyright Office chief Shira Perlmutter sues Trump administration arguing only Librarian of Congress can remove her, challenging White House authority over legislative branch agency. May 23, 2025 View Details JD Vance calls Chief Justice Roberts “profoundly wrong” for saying Supreme Court’s role is to check executive branch excesses, arguing courts shouldn’t overturn voters’ choice on immigration enforcement. May 23, 2025 View Details Supreme Court deadlocks 4-4 on nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving ban in place after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recuses herself due to ties with Catholic Church’s legal adviser. May 23, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to fire independent agency heads in stay order while signaling Federal Reserve officials have special protection as “uniquely structured, quasi-private entity.” May 23, 2025 View Details Jailed Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil finally holds his one-month-old son after federal judge overrules Trump administration’s attempt to force plexiglass barrier between father and infant. May 23, 2025 View Details White House calls federal judge “liberal activist” after he ruled Trump administration violated court order by giving South Sudan deportees only 12 hours notice instead of “meaningful” due process. May 23, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking legal status of international students nationwide after more than 4,700 had visas canceled in April based on FBI arrest database searches. May 23, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump from firing 1,300 Education Department employees after staff cuts closed seven civil rights offices and eliminated entire FAFSA oversight team. May 23, 2025 View Details Federal judge reverses Trump’s firing of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members, ruling president lacks authority to remove independent agency officials without cause. May 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules US deportation of eight migrants to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated prior court order and considers holding Homeland Security officials in contempt. May 22, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed federal judge strikes down EEOC regulations requiring employers to provide time off and accommodations for abortions. May 22, 2025 View Details Supreme Court orders Maine House to restore voting rights of Republican lawmaker punished for identifying transgender student athlete in social media post. May 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders U.S. to maintain control of migrants sent to South Sudan after finding Trump administration potentially violated court restrictions on third-country deportations. May 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump’s takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace, ruling president unlawfully fired board, president, staff and seized headquarters. May 20, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for 350,000 Venezuelans, shortening Biden’s extension to 2026. May 20, 2025 View Details Appeals court lifts injunction blocking Trump’s executive order that strips collective bargaining rights from 75% of unionized federal employees. May 18, 2025 View Details Violent threats against judges on social media increase 327% as Trump, Musk, and administration officials publicly attack judiciary for finding their actions unlawful. May 17, 2025 View Details Oregon Humanities and state councils sue Trump administration over terminated federal funding they claim violates congressional appropriations and separation of powers. May 17, 2025 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overturn federal judge’s 14-day block on mass layoffs across executive branch agencies. May 17, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed Texas judge strikes down federal workplace protections for transgender workers as EEOC leadership abandons discrimination cases. May 17, 2025 View Details Trump administration admits it falsely claimed deported Guatemalan man said he wasn’t afraid to return to Mexico in latest of several illegal deportations exposed in court. May 17, 2025 View Details Federal judge rejects Trump administration’s “take my word for it” state secrets claim in case of wrongfully deported man despite court orders to return him. May 17, 2025 View Details Supreme Court indefinitely blocks Trump administration from deporting Venezuelans from Texas facility under 1798 Alien Enemies Act without due process. May 17, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump administration’s attempt to cut $11 billion in congressional public health funding despite HHS claims pandemic is over. May 17, 2025 View Details Indian Ph.D. student granted injunction against deportation after DHS tried to revoke her visa over minor traffic violation from four years ago. May 16, 2025 View Details Trump administration revokes security clearances of lawyers at WilmerHale and Jenner & Block despite court orders temporarily halting executive action against law firms. May 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge to review Trump administration’s claim of “state secrets privilege” in case of Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador. May 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge rescinds order that would have required Trump administration to admit 12,000 refugees, now limiting approval to 160 with specific travel plans. May 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge dismisses trespassing charges against 120 migrants who crossed into newly created military buffer zone in New Mexico. May 16, 2025 View Details Montana judge strikes down ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors as unconstitutional. May 15, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Georgetown scholar held in ICE custody for two months, ruling detention violated First Amendment rights. May 15, 2025 View Details Milwaukee judge charged with helping immigrant evade ICE cites judicial immunity in motion to dismiss federal case. May 15, 2025 View Details Judge rules Justice Department illegally retaliated against American Bar Association for joining lawsuit against Trump administration. May 15, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court blocks Florida’s drag show law as overly broad, citing First Amendment violations May 14, 2025 View Details Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly helping undocumented man evade ICE agents through courtroom’s back exit. May 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge in Pennsylvania’s Western District approves Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of gang ties. May 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge allows IRS to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE for deportation efforts. May 13, 2025 View Details Federal judges face intimidation through hundreds of unsolicited pizza deliveries including orders placed using name of murdered son of Judge Salas who ruled on Trump cases. May 12, 2025 View Details Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk arrived in Boston Saturday after federal judge orders her release from six weeks of ICE detention for writing opinion piece critical of Israel. May 11, 2025 View Details ICE transfers Venezuelan detainees to Texas facility where judge has not halted Alien Enemies Act deportations. May 10, 2025 View Details Trump personally involved in discussions about suspending habeas corpus to fast-track deportations, sources tell CNN. May 10, 2025 View Details Fifteen states sue over Trump order fast-tracking fossil fuel projects after he declares “energy emergency.” May 10, 2025 View Details BREAKING OVERNIGHT: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s sweeping government overhaul, saying constitutional limits require congressional approval. May 10, 2025 View Details In rare public criticism, Justice Sotomayor urges lawyers to “stand up” against Trump administration’s attacks on legal profession. May 9, 2025 View Details Chief Justice John Roberts defends judicial independence in Buffalo as Trump officials criticize federal courts. May 9, 2025 View Details Alabama student detained for 6 weeks granted self-deportation to Iran at immigration court hearing. May 9, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to revoke humanitarian status for over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, challenging lower court rulings. May 9, 2025 View Details Trump names Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro interim U.S. attorney for D.C. after Senate pushback derails Ed Martin nomination. May 9, 2025 View Details Pentagon orders removal of up to 1,000 transgender troops following Supreme Court decision allowing Trump’s military ban. May 9, 2025 View Details Judge Grills DOJ on Trump’s Claim He Can Secure Return of Wrongly Deported Migrant. May 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case. May 8, 2025 View Details Judge warns Trump administration that deporting migrants to Libya would violate court order. May 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration considers releasing Biden classified document interview blocked by executive privilege. May 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration accused of defying court order by cutting NIH research grants. May 8, 2025 View Details GOP Senator Tillis opposition likely to sink Trump’s pick Ed Martin for D.C. U.S. attorney. May 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump plan to slash funding for library, minority business, and labor mediation agencies. May 7, 2025 View Details Judge bars Trump administration from withholding over $1 billion in pandemic relief for struggling students. May 7, 2025 View Details Judge Stephanie Gallagher rejects Trump bid, orders return of second Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador. May 7, 2025 View Details Two more judges block Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations, saying wartime law is misused. May 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce transgender military ban while appeals proceed. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration tells judge states have no standing to sue over mifepristone access. May 6, 2025 View Details Intel memo contradicts Trump claim that Venezuelan gang posed a national threat used to justify 1798 deportation law May 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to admit 12,000 refugees blocked under recent executive order. May 6, 2025 View Details Appeals court blocks Trump’s attempt to end legal status for 400,000 migrants. May 6, 2025 View Details Justice Department investigates Hennepin County attorney over policy considering race in prosecutions. May 5, 2025 View Details Colorado House passes immigrant protection bill one day after Trump sues state over enforcement limits. May 4, 2025 View Details Appellate court blocks reinstatement of Voice of America staff two days after ruling allowed return. May 4, 2025 View Details Trump lashes out online after judge blocks Alien Enemies Act deportations of Venezuelan gang suspects. May 4, 2025 View Details Justice Department drops gun charge against alleged MS‑13 leader Villatoro Santos in Virginia to speed deportation. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump settles lawsuit over rioter shot breaking into Capitol during 2021 attack. May 3, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump order banning Perkins Coie from federal work and revoking security clearances. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security data blocked by lower court injunction. May 3, 2025 View Details In historic rebuke, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calls Trump’s attacks on judges an intimidating threat to democracy and urges courts to show ‘raw courage.’ May 2, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump from dismantling federal library agency after mass firings, grant cancellations. May 2, 2025 View Details Judge questions Trump move to shift deportation case of Georgetown scholar from Virginia to Texas after Gaza posts. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to end deportation protections for 350,000 Venezuelans with temporary status. May 2, 2025 View Details Judge issues permanent ban on Trump using 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of gang ties from his Texas district. May 2, 2025 View Details Judge orders ex-FBI informant who lied about Biden bribery scheme to remain in prison. May 1, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump officials to resume efforts to return wrongly deported Maryland man from El Salvador. May 1, 2025 View Details Judge orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi after DHS detained him during naturalization interview. May 1, 2025 View Details Appeals court rules 9–6 to block DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data without training or oversight. May 1, 2025 View Details Trump nominee Ed Martin dodges Jan 6 and Nazi-sympathizer questions in Senate confirmation answers April 30, 2025 View Details Trump fires three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members, prompting lawsuit over his authority. April 30, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to restore $12 million in funding for Radio Free Europe, blocking its shutdown. April 30, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump move to fire 1,500 CFPB workers and orders officials to testify on possible injunction breach. April 30, 2025 View Details Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily suspends Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest for helping a migrant evade immigration agents. April 30, 2025 View Details Federal judge in California orders Trump administration to keep funding lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children. April 30, 2025 View Details Judge bars Border Patrol in Eastern California from warrantless arrests and coerced departures after profiling farmworkers. April 30, 2025 View Details Federal judge Randolph Moss challenges Trump claim that his border-invasion asylum ban is beyond court review. April 30, 2025 View Details Trump says he could bring back Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador but refuses despite Supreme Court order. April 30, 2025 View Details Trump signs executive orders to prosecute officials who obstruct police, crack down on sanctuary cities, and reinstate English rules for truck drivers. April 29, 2025 View Details A second federal judge questions Trump’s executive order punishing Jenner & Block for its ties to a former Trump investigator. April 29, 2025 View Details Trump official defends deporting U.S. citizen children, saying parents are responsible for family separations. April 28, 2025 View Details FBI director posts arrest photo of Wisconsin judge charged with obstructing immigration agents, seemingly violating Justice Department privacy policies. April 27, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan immigrants from west Texas. April 27, 2025 View Details Trump administration sues Rochester to scrap sanctuary city rules that curb cooperation with immigration agents. April 26, 2025 View Details FBI arrests Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan on two felony counts for helping an undocumented defendant slip past ICE agents waiting outside her courtroom after a hearing. April 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge halts Trump order stripping collective bargaining rights from most federal workers. April 26, 2025 View Details Trump administration exiles two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras, provoking judge’s fury over vanished due process. April 26, 2025 Transportation Dept attorneys accidentally file internal memo admitting Trump admin’s congestion pricing lawsuit is a losing battle, are immediately replaced. April 25, 2025 View Details Venezuelans targeted under 1798 law are allowed only 12 hours to contest deportation. April 25, 2025 View Details DHS admits ICE arrested Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant. April 25, 2025 View Details Judge orders U.S. to return second migrant deported to El Salvador under 1798 law. April 25, 2025 View Details Hegseth had unsecured internet line set up in Pentagon office to run Signal app, AP reports. April 25, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate transgender military ban after judge blocks policy. April 25, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump order to defund public schools over DEI programs. April 25, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump order to strip funds from sanctuary cities over immigration stance. April 25, 2025 View Details Judge rules only Congress can require proof of citizenship, blocks Trump order. April 25, 2025 View Details Two major law firms seek permanent block on Trump orders they say retaliate for past legal work. April 24, 2025 View Details Twelve states sue Trump over new tariffs, calling them illegal and outside presidential authority. April 24, 2025 View Details Judge slams Trump administration for defying court order in deportation case but grants DOJ a short delay. April 24, 2025 View Details Federal government fights judge’s order to move jailed Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont after arrest over Gaza essay. April 24, 2025 View Details Three more federal prosecutors resign over Trump admin threat to admit wrongdoing in Eric Adams case, bringing total to 10. April 23, 2025 View Details Judge says Trump admin defied court orders in Abrego Garcia case, orders more officials deposed in misconduct probe. April 23, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump admin to reinstate VOA staff and restore funding to U.S. global media outlets. April 23, 2025 View Details Judge extends Colorado ban on Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations, orders 21-day notice and language access. April 23, 2025 View Details Trump says he’s ‘entitled’ to deport people without trials days after Supreme Court blocked Venezuela deportations. April 23, 2025 View Details Judge blocks deportation of two Oregon college students, citing lack of justification for revoked visas and ordering they remain in state. April 22, 2025 View Details Justice Dept gives Musk’s DOGE access to full database of immigrants’ court records, addresses, and law enforcement history. April 22, 2025 View Details Judge temporarily blocks plan to reopen ICE office on Rikers Island over sanctuary city law and mayoral overreach. April 22, 2025 View Details House Democrats go to El Salvador to demand return of immigrant deported in defiance of court order. April 22, 2025 View Details Trump says migrant trials aren’t possible and slams Supreme Court for blocking Alien Enemies Act deportations. April 22, 2025 View Details Trump posts Easter message attacking the nation’s courts, “radical left,” and Biden, repeating immigration lies. April 21, 2025 View Details Trump administration urges Supreme Court to end pause on migrant deportations under 1798 Alien Enemies Act. April 20, 2025 View Details Seattle police officers who joined Jan. 6 rally ask Supreme Court to keep their names hidden in public records case. April 20, 2025 View Details Trump wins delay in contempt case as appeals court blocks Boasberg over El Salvador deportations. April 19, 2025 View Details Judge halts Trump’s CFPB firings, demands answers from White House officials for defying court rulings. April 19, 2025 View Details Judiciary warns Congress that stagnant court security funding is unsustainable amid rising threats and judge harassment. April 19, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to tell fired workers they were not let go for poor performance. April 19, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders ICE to transfer detained Tufts student and fast-track hearing on due process violations. April 19, 2025 View Details Van Hollen accuses Trump administration of law-breaking after visiting deported Maryland man in El Salvador. April 19, 2025 View Details Breaking overnight: Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from deporting Venezuelans under 1798 Alien Enemies Act while litigation continues. April 19, 2025 View Details Ex-election security chief Chris Krebs quits private-sector job to fight Trump-ordered probe over 2020 April 18, 2025 View Details Florida trooper jailed U.S. citizen under blocked immigration law despite court order and proof of citizenship. April 18, 2025 View Details Trump official pressed IRS over audit of ‘in ruins’ conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, who told court he can’t pay debts. April 18, 2025 View Details Appeals court skeptical of Trump admin push to block AP from regaining its longtime White House press slot. April 18, 2025 View Details Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump appeal on restricting birthright citizenship but keeps restraining order in place. April 18, 2025 View Details Three judge appeals court panel calls Trump admin refusal to return Abrego Garcia “shocking” and rejects appeal. April 18, 2025 View Details Van Hollen meets with illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia as Trump pushes to keep him jailed in El Salvador. April 18, 2025 View Details California sues Trump over tariffs, saying president’s use of emergency powers threatens state economy and violates the law. April 17, 2025 View Details Military families sue DOD, say Trump administration censored base school education and banned diverse books April 17, 2025 View Details Judge allows union lawsuit over DOGE access to Labor Department records to proceed under federal privacy law. April 17, 2025 View Details Bondi says deported MD man is ‘not coming back’ despite Supreme Court order to facilitate return. April 17, 2025 View Details Sen. Van Hollen travels to El Salvador to see Maryland constituent deported under 1798 wartime law, but vice president blocks access. April 17, 2025 View Details Judge says there’s probable cause to hold U.S. in criminal contempt over 1798 law deportations, orders government to respond by April 23 or name officials. April 17, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump’s Labor Dept from forcing grantees to drop DEI programs, but allows ban on new equity-related grants to stand. April 16, 2025 View Details Judge orders immediate unfreezing of climate and infrastructure funds, says Trump can’t block laws in perpetuity. April 16, 2025 View Details Fourth judge blocks Trump’s retaliatory order targeting law firms, calls Susman case ‘immensely oppressive.’ April 16, 2025 View Details Trump administration sidelines AP from press pool despite federal court order by shrinking access for all wire outlets. April 16, 2025 View Details Judge orders four Trump officials to testify within two weeks for defying Supreme Court order to return wrongly deported migrant held in El Salvador prison. April 16, 2025 View Details Judge warns Trump admin could trigger constitutional crisis if court rules Tufts student’s arrest was unlawful. April 15, 2025 View Details Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to strip legal status from 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. April 15, 2025 View Details White House defies court order and bars AP from Oval Office event over refusal to use ‘Gulf of America’ in reporting. April 15, 2025 View Details ICE arrests Palestinian Columbia grad Mohsen Mahdawi at citizenship interview; judge blocks transfer out of Vermont. April 15, 2025 View Details Bukele mocks U.S. over wrongful deportation as Trump officials defy court order to return Abrego Garcia. April 15, 2025 View Details Trump administration tells judge in writing it has no duty to bring back man illegally deported to El Salvador. April 14, 2025 View Details Trump administration defies court order to return wrongly deported man or explain steps taken. April 13, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to restore USDA funds for Maine school meals after anti-trans funding cutoff. April 13, 2025 View Details Judge allows one DOGE member access to Treasury data tied to Americans’ bank and Social Security info. April 12, 2025 View Details Judge orders daily updates on mistaken deportation case as Trump administration defies courts April 12, 2025 View Details Judge clears Trump to deport Columbia grad for political speech under Cold War-era law. Federal appeal still pending. April 12, 2025 View Details Trump DOJ seeks release of FBI informant who admitted lying about Bidens after meeting with Russian agents. April 12, 2025 View Details Trump’s U.S. attorney for New Jersey opens probe into Gov. Murphy and AG Platkin over refusal to aid ICE. April 12, 2025 View Details Judge allows Trump’s immigration agents to carry out enforcement in houses of worship after denying religious groups’ challenge. April 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge clears Trump rule requiring undocumented immigrants to register with government and carry ID starting Friday. April 11, 2025 Judge signals she will block Trump plan to deport 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans admitted under Biden parole program. April 11, 2025 View Details Trump admin cites pro-Palestinian beliefs in 2-page memo to Judge Jamee Comans to justify deporting Mahmoud Khalil. April 11, 2025 View Details Supreme Court upholds judge’s order requiring Trump administration to help return wrongfully deported Salvadoran man. April 11, 2025 View Details Fired EEOC commissioner sues Trump for illegally undermining agency’s independence and worker protections. April 10, 2025 View Details Two judges enforce SCOTUS due process rule, bar 1798-law deportations in their districts without hearings. April 10, 2025 View Details Two law firms sue to block Trump order punishing them over Mueller ties. April 9, 2025 View Details Most migrants deported to El Salvador under 1798 law had no U.S. criminal record, raising questions about Trump’s claims. April 9, 2025 View Details Judge gives Trump officials 24 hours to produce evidence against Mahmoud Khalil or drop deportation case, warning she’ll dismiss charges Friday. April 9, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump to reinstate Associated Press in White House press pool, citing retaliation for refusing to use his “Gulf of America” renaming. April 9, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with firing 16,000 federal workers, rejecting unions’ challenge over lack of standing. April 9, 2025 View Details Appeals court reinstates NLRB and MSPB leaders fired by Trump, setting up likely Supreme Court fight over board protections. April 8, 2025 View Details Appeals court restores DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Education, Treasury, and OPM, overriding privacy ruling challenged by unions and veterans. April 8, 2025 View Details Supreme Court temporarily pauses order to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador as Trump admin claims foreign policy interference. April 8, 2025 View Details Divided Supreme Court lets Trump use 1798 wartime powers law for deportations but requires due process. April 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues rare Sunday order slamming Trump deportation of Maryland man to El Salvador prison as ‘wholly lawless,’ orders return by Monday midnight. April 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration suspends DOJ lawyer who admitted Garcia’s wrongful deportation in court. April 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration tells appeals court that U.S. judges have no authority to undo wrongful deportation of man sent to brutal El Salvador prison. April 6, 2025 View Details Hundreds of law firms and ex-judges petition judge to permanently block Trump’s order targeting Perkins Coie, one of the first firms he sanctioned. April 5, 2025 View Details North Carolina court gives 65,000 voters 15 days to prove eligibility or have their ballots thrown out, boosting GOP candidate’s bid. April 5, 2025 View Details Supreme Court, in narrow vote, lets Trump freeze $65M in teacher-training grants tied to diversity efforts. April 5, 2025 View Details Judge says Columbia must give 30 days’ notice before handing student records to Congress in antisemitism probe. April 5, 2025 View Details Judge gives Trump administration until Monday to return man they mistakenly deported to Salvadoran prison; press secretary Leavitt and adviser Miller mock the ruling. April 5, 2025 View Details Judge Boasberg considers contempt charges against administration at hearing over Trump deportations under 1798 law. April 4, 2025 View Details Trump administration continues blocking court-ordered funding to Radio Free Europe, forcing layoffs. April 4, 2025 View Details Judge says she’ll temporarily block Trump’s $11B public health cuts, with full injunction hearing still ahead. April 4, 2025 View Details Rally and court hearing Friday for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison as White House refuses to repatriate him. April 4, 2025 View Details Nineteen states sue to block Trump’s voting order requiring proof of citizenship, calling it unconstitutional voter suppression. April 4, 2025 View Details Judge finally dismisses NYC Mayor corruption case with prejudice, after DOJ resignations and backlash over Trump-aligned immigration deal. April 3, 2025 View Details Judge slams EPA and Citibank over $20 billion green grant freeze, questions legality of Trump-aligned shutdown targeting nonprofits. April 3, 2025 View Details Judge allows Musk-led DOGE to seize $500 million U.S. Institute of Peace building. April 2, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump firings in 19 states and D.C. on technicality — but lets rest stand. April 2, 2025 View Details Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after arrest at Boston Municipal Court derails minor case against immigrant defendant. April 2, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump admin’s bid to move student activist’s detention case to Louisiana, keeps it in New Jersey. April 2, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to restore legal aid for 26,000 unaccompanied migrant children after March cutoff. April 2, 2025 View Details Crawford defeats Trump- and Musk-backed Schimel in most expensive judicial race in U.S. history. April 2, 2025 View Details Judge blocks CIA and ODNI from firing DEI officers under Trump order without review or appeal. April 1, 2025 View Details Trump jails 17 Venezuelan and Salvadoran nationals in El Salvador outside court-blocked wartime authority. April 1, 2025 View Details Musk gives $1 million checks to Wisconsin voters after state Supreme Court refuses to block him. March 31, 2025 View Details Appeals court panel rejects AG Kaul’s bid to block Musk from offering million-dollar checks tied to Wisconsin election petition. March 30, 2025 View Details Appeals court halts reinstatement of fired NLRB and MSPB officials, backing Trump. March 29, 2025 View Details Federal judges block Trump orders against Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, calling them political retaliation. March 29, 2025 View Details Wisconsin AG Seeks Restraining Order Against Musk Days Before the Election March 29, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate 1798 wartime powers as gang deportation fight escalates March 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from deporting migrants to third countries without giving them a chance to seek protection in U.S. court. March 29, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump appointees from defunding Voice of America, ruling Kari Lake’s move “usurps Congress’s power of the purse.” March 29, 2025 View Details Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after firings and shutdown order. March 29, 2025 View Details Second federal judge blocks Trump’s transgender military ban, slams it as discriminatory and unsupported by evidence. March 28, 2025 View Details Judge Boasberg orders Trump officials to preserve Signal messages as Trump continues attacking him over the 1798 wartime law. March 28, 2025 View Details A federal judge extended the pause on Trump’s mass firing of probationary federal workers as states argue they face harm from sudden job losses. March 27, 2025 View Details A viral video shows masked federal agents arresting a Tufts graduate student with a valid visa and flying her from MA to LA in defiance of a judge’s order, citing alleged Hamas ties but without filing charges. March 27, 2025 View Details The administration filed an emergency petition at the Supreme Court to cancel teacher training grants it claims promote DEI, critical race theory, and anti-racism. March 27, 2025 View Details Appeals court upheld Judge Boasberg’s order blocking Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants without due process, ruling he can’t invoke wartime powers when the U.S. isn’t at war. March 27, 2025 View Details Judge Howell rejected Trump’s recusal motion in a case targeting law firm Perkins Coie and warned that DOJ attacks on her threaten the rule of law. March 27, 2025 View Details House Speaker Mike Johnson claims Congress can eliminate courts, backs bill to block judges from halting Trump policies. March 26, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump from defunding Radio Free Europe after he shut down Voice of America two weeks ago. March 26, 2025 View Details Trump punishes fourth law firm, 110-year-old firm employing former Mueller prosecutor, by revoking security clearances and reviewing federal contracts. March 26, 2025 View Details Unsealed records show Trump’s DOJ forced prosecutors to drop corruption case against NYC mayor to protect his role in immigration crackdown. March 26, 2025 View Details Judge indefinitely blocks Musk’s DOGE from accessing Education Department data on union members, student borrowers, and veterans, calling the mass data sharing likely illegal. March 25, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to block lower court order to reinstate 16,000 fired federal workers after judge ruled the mass terminations were illegal. March 25, 2025 View Details Jordan briefs Trump on House Judiciary hearing to rein in federal judges after deportation rulings, eyes cuts and court restrictions. March 25, 2025 View Details Trump attacked Judge Boasberg online early Monday after calling for his impeachment this weekend, as threats and intimidation against federal judges intensify. March 25, 2025 View Details Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege to block judge’s order on Venezuelan deportations under 1798 law, then appeals to lift it. March 25, 2025 View Details The Trump administration quietly added new charges against jailed Columbia Univ. activist Mahmoud Khalil after targeting him over pro-Palestinian speech. March 24, 2025 View Details Defense Secretary Hegseth mocks judge who blocked transgender troop ban, joining Trump officials attacking courts. March 23, 2025 View Details Trump backs WI Supreme Court candidate funded by Musk ahead of election that could decide 2026 voting rules. March 23, 2025 View Details Trump directs DOJ and Homeland Security to crack down on lawyers who’ve sued his administration, escalating threats against legal opposition. March 23, 2025 View Details Judge rejects WH claim that brand-new USAID leader isn’t covered by his order, says excluding him would’ve undermined it, and explicitly bars him from acting. March 22, 2025 View Details Judge vows to investigate if Trump defied deportation order using 1798 war powers: ‘I will get to the bottom of who ordered this,’ with Tuesday deadline for answers. March 22, 2025 View Details Acting Social Security administrator threatens to shut down agency over court order denying Musk’s DOGE access to records, then reverses himself hours later. March 22, 2025 View Details Voice of America staff sue Trump over shutdown, citing First Amendment violations and 1,450 job cuts. March 21, 2025 View Details Musk’s PAC again offers $100 to voters—this time in WI special election—to back petition attacking ‘activist judges’ and help get Trump-aligned court pick elected. March 21, 2025 View Details Judge bars Musk’s DOGE team from Social Security data, citing ‘so-called experts’ and disregard for Americans’ private information. March 21, 2025 View Details Judge blocks deportation of Georgetown scholar with valid visa and American spouse. March 21, 2025 View Details Judge slams administration’s ‘woefully insufficient’ deportation response, orders state secrets explanation by Friday, decision by March 25. March 21, 2025 View Details ICC president warns Trump’s sanctions are crippling court: staff quitting, payments blocked, and war crimes cases at risk. March 20, 2025 View Details Musk donates legal max to GOP lawmakers backing Trump’s push to impeach judges blocking his agenda. March 20, 2025 View Details Judge warns of “consequences” as Trump administration resists disclosing deportation flight details, while AG Bondi attacks court’s authority. March 20, 2025 View Details Chief Justice Roberts rebukes calls for judge’s impeachment; Trump claims statement wasn’t directed at him March 19, 2025 View Details Judge rules Musk’s USAID purge violated Constitution, restores computer access but agency remains gutted March 19, 2025 View Details Second Judge Blocks Trump’s Transgender Military Ban, Final Order Expected Friday March 19, 2025 View Details Federal agencies put fired probationary employees on paid leave after court orders reinstatement. March 18, 2025 View Details Judge Defied, Skeptical as Trump Admin Defends Deportation of Brown University Doctor; Hearing Set for Thursday March 18, 2025 View Details Judge Gives Trump Admin Until Noon Tuesday to Explain Deportations That Defied His Court Order March 18, 2025 View Details U.S. deports Brown University kidney specialist despite valid visa, defying a second judge’s order. March 17, 2025 View Details Trump admin defies court order, sends 200+ migrants to El Salvador—pays $6M for their detention. March 17, 2025 View Details Trump invokes 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations; judge orders two planes mid-flight to turn back. March 16, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled Friday against immigration advocates trying to block Trump’s Guantanamo Bay migrant transfers. March 15, 2025 View Details A three-judge appeals panel lifted the block on Trump’s orders to end government support for DEI programs. March 15, 2025 View Details Two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of workers fired Feb. 13-14. One also demanded a full employee list and reinstatement status of each in 7 days. March 14, 2025 View Details The WH filed an emergency Supreme Court request to begin denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented parents born after Feb. 19. March 14, 2025 View Details A federal judge rebuked the Defense Dept. for misrepresenting studies on transgender people during a hearing on whether the military can discharge transgender service members. March 13, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled that Trump unlawfully fired Federal Labor Relations Authority Chair Susan Grundmann and ordered her reinstatement. March 13, 2025 View Details Jailed activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in custody into next week, but his lawyers have gained their first chance to speak with him privately since his arrest. March 13, 2025 View Details A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order punishing law firm Perkins Coie, ruling it likely violates First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. March 13, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocked the White House from cutting hundreds of millions in teacher training funds after eight states sued. March 12, 2025 View Details The Trump administration told a federal judge that restarting refugee admissions could take months. March 12, 2025 View Details Federal Judge Amir Ali ordered the White House to provide a status report by Friday on unpaid invoices to relief groups for work done before Feb. 13. March 12, 2025 View Details A USAID employees union petitioned a federal judge after the agency ordered staff to destroy classified records. March 12, 2025 View Details Perkins Coie, the elite law firm barred from federal buildings and employees by Trump has hired another firm to sue the government. March 11, 2025 View Details A judge ruled that Elon Musk’s DOGE unit is likely subject to FOIA laws and ordered DOGE and OMB to turn over emails in a lawsuit over federal employee firings. March 11, 2025 View Details Federal Judge Amir Ali barred the administration from “unlawfully impounding congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds.” March 11, 2025 View Details Trump defended Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she broke with conservatives to release foreign aid, calling her “smart” and “a very good woman.” March 10, 2025 View Details Unions file emergency request to block DOGE from accessing Social Security databases. March 9, 2025 View Details Justice Dept. drops lawsuit against LA petrochemical plant accused of poisoning a majority-Black neighborhood, claiming it was rolling back “radical DEI” activity. March 8, 2025 View Details DC, 19 state AGs sue Trump admin over mass firings, demanding reinstatement of workers. March 8, 2025 View Details GOP blasting Justice Barrett for voting against Trump interests, calls her DEI hire. March 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge reinstates National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox. March 8, 2025 View Details Second federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump admin’s freeze on federal grants and loans. March 8, 2025 View Details A Federal Judge backed by high court orders admin to start paying aid by Monday 6 pm. March 8, 2025 View Details Appeals court allows Trump to remove ethics head lower court reinstated. March 7, 2025 View Details Judge rules FEMA doesn’t have to immediately return $80 million to NYC. March 7, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump admin from cutting NIH funding. March 7, 2025 View Details 5-4 Supreme Court reinstates lower-court order, forcing Trump admin to release nearly $2B in frozen foreign aid. March 7, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled that Trump illegally fired Merit Systems Protection Board chair Cathy Harris and ordered her reinstated for the remainder of her term. March 6, 2025 View Details A second federal judge blocked the administration from defunding institutions that provide care for transgender youth. March 6, 2025 View Details Rep. Andy Ogles filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who blocked Trump’s freeze of USAID funds, the 2nd GOP action against a judge. March 2, 2025 View Details A federal judge in Seattle blocked the government from withholding funds from hospitals offering gender-transition treatment to minors. March 2, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled that Trump cannot fire the head of the office of Special Counsel, a decision likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court. March 2, 2025 View Details Democrats sue to block Trump’s order giving him exclusive authority over campaign finance law. March 1, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled that Trump officials must testify under oath about the secretive Department of Government Efficiency in a suit filed by unions. February 28, 2025 View Details A federal judge ruled that OPM’s directives ordering the firing of probationary employees were illegal and have no legal effect on at least six agencies. February 28, 2025 View Details Roberts issues emergency stay, USAID funds remain frozen, answers due Friday at Supreme Court. February 27, 2025 View Details The White House said Amy Gleason, not Elon Musk, leads DOGE and reports to Trump, clarifying this while she was vacationing in Mexico. February 26, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the US to resume USAID payments by Wed night. February 26, 2025 View Details Federal judge upholds WH ban on AP until a hearing in three weeks February 25, 2025 View Details Federal judge questions constitutionality of Musk’s DOGE group February 25, 2025 View Details Judge okays Trump admin to gut USAID workforce February 25, 2025 View Details DOJ accuses judge of misconduct, files complaint in transgender military ban February 25, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Musk’s Treasury takeover, calling it ‘chaotic and haphazard’ February 25, 2025 View Details The Supreme Court stalls Trump’s attempt to fire the whistleblower watchdog February 25, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump’s DEI crackdown, calls it “textbook discriminatinon” February 25, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to begin complying with his order to release foreign aid February 25, 2025 View Details A federal judge declined to block Elon Musk from ordering mass firings or accessing data at seven different agencies February 24, 2025 View Details Four NYC Deputy Mayors have resigned, Gov. Hochul considering removing Adams February 24, 2025 View Details A federal judge refused to block Musk’s employees from accessing Education Dept data February 24, 2025 View Details Election denier Ed Martin named US Attorney for DC, signals plans to investigate Democrats & DOJ officials February 24, 2025 View Details EEOC drops gender discrimination case February 24, 2025 View Details Trump admin fires 20 immigration law judges without explanation amid 3.7M case backlog February 24, 2025 View Details Judge orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to halt data deletion after whistleblower warning February 24, 2025 View Details Justice Dept move to drop NYC Mayor Adams’ case; 7 prosecutors resign in protest February 24, 2025 View Details Judge approves Trump worker buyouts, program now frozen February 24, 2025 View Details A federal judge says the Trump administration is defying his order to release billions of dollars in grants appropriated by Congress February 23, 2025 View Details JD Vance writes, “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” February 23, 2025 View Details A Trump-appointed federal judge blocked the firing of 2,200 USAID workers after Thursday’s restraining order February 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocked the federal employee buyout offer February 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge indefinitely blocked Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship February 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s order to move trans women to men’s prisons February 22, 2025 View Details A federal judge refused to block Elon Musk’s associates from accessing Education Department data late Monday. 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