The FBI searches a voting-rights group’s Cleveland offices and seizes staff devices statewide without saying what crime it suspects, five months before the midterm elections.
Trump picks his own hush-money appeal lawyer James McDonald to run the powerful Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office.
The Kennedy Center removes Trump’s name from its façade after losing two court bids to keep it past Saturday’s deadline.
Fourteen Republican attorneys general ask the EPA to regulate the abortion pill mifepristone as a water contaminant, a claim environmental scientists say has no evidence.
A federal judge clears the UFC’s fight card to proceed on the White House South Lawn Sunday, rejecting a corruption suit over the 154-foot arena built on parkland.
A federal judge dismisses the University of Florida College Republicans’ free speech lawsuit over a deactivation that followed a member’s Nazi salute photo.
A federal judge permanently blocks Trump’s $1.78 billion fund to pay January 6 rioters, saying she does not trust officials who refused to disavow it under oath.
The Trump administration agrees to resume asylum processing for 39 countries after a judge ruled there was no excuse for defying his earlier order.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery and climate it stripped from national parks, ruling the removals unlawful censorship.
The Washington National Opera sues the Kennedy Center for $17 million, saying it refused to return donor gifts after the opera ended their partnership.
Alabama seeks to execute death row inmate Jeffery Lee by lethal injection a day after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his nitrogen gas execution.
Crews begin prying Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center after two courts reject the board’s last-ditch bid to keep it past a judge’s deadline.
Federal magistrate acquits former New York City comptroller Brad Lander of obstruction from his arrest while trying to inspect ICE holding rooms, finding his testimony credible.
Planned Parenthood sues to overturn Alaska’s ban on telehealth abortion services, arguing it violates state constitutional privacy rights in a state where many live off the road system.
Federal judge rules the EPA illegally killed a $2.8 billion environmental justice grant program but declines to order its restart.
Federal judge blocks Texas Attorney General Paxton from pursuing his ActBlue lawsuit, ruling it retaliation for fundraising that benefits his Senate opponent.
Federal judge tells Trump officials there is no excuse for ignoring his order to restart asylum processing frozen for 39 countries, demanding a compliance report within 24 hours.
New Mexico judge throws out a Republican lawsuit against Governor Lujan Grisham’s universal childcare program, ruling the legislature already endorsed it.
Supreme Court refuses to let Alabama execute Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas, ending the state’s push to proceed days after lower courts called the method unconstitutional.
Trump appeals one day before a court deadline to remove his name from the Kennedy Center, after his board directed the move.
Judge warns Justice Department not to play possum over the $1.8 billion fund Trump’s administration created to settle Trump’s own lawsuit.
Appeals court upholds ruling that Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions are unconstitutional, but the state says Thursday’s execution is proceeding anyway.
Florida’s Supreme Court lets Republicans use newly gerrymandered House districts in the midterms, potentially handing the GOP four more seats.
Federal judge rules Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions cruel and unusual two days before a scheduled execution, finding the inmate’s firing squad alternative feasible.
Georgia Republicans seek to impeach Judge Eleanor Ross as the Justice Department pushes to remove her from its voter roll case against the state.
Federal appeals court calls Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution method intolerably cruel but lets Thursday’s execution proceed.
Salt Lake City and county sue to stop ICE from turning an 830,000-square-foot warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center.
Lawyer who defended Ken Paxton in his impeachment and fraud cases endorses Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race.
Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, ruling he imposed a tax without congressional authorization.
Kennedy Center scrubs Trump’s name from its website but leaves it on the building façade until a June 12 court deadline.
Lawsuit seeks to block the UFC fight Trump scheduled on the White House South Lawn for his June 14 birthday.
Judge dismisses the Trump Kennedy Center’s lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd, ruling it retaliation for his objection to Trump’s name.
Justice Department tells a federal court it won’t proceed with Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund while urging the judge not to block it.
Judge John McConnell blocks Trump’s freeze on immigration benefits for 39 travel-ban countries, finding national security claims masked anti-immigrant animus.
Known donors to Trump’s White House ballroom won more than $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months, a watchdog finds, while the full donor list stays secret.
Senate rejects Schumer’s motion to permanently kill Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate January 6 rioters, 49 to 50, as three Republicans cross over.
Federal planning commission keeps Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington Cemetery alive despite 1,700 mostly opposed comments, requesting more detail on height and air-traffic safety.
Kennedy Center orders staff to strip Trump’s name from its signage, website, and official materials by June 12, complying with a ruling that the renaming was illegal.
Tyco agrees to a $10 million settlement with Wisconsin over decades of PFAS contamination in Marinette, far less than residents sought.
A Colorado appeals court overturns the criminally negligent homicide convictions of two paramedics who sedated Elijah McClain, ordering new trials seven years after his death.
Trump’s former national security adviser Bolton agrees to plead guilty to retaining national security information, six years after Trump called for his prosecution.
Environmental groups sue after federal agencies shrink protected grizzly habitat in Montana from 2,500 acres to one acre, clearing the way for logging.
DHS Secretary Mullin appears to undercut his agency’s year-long fight to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, telling senators the US would be “happy to send him” to Costa Rica instead.
Chicago US Attorney Boutros admits he personally addressed a grand jury before it indicted immigration protesters on a third attempt.
St. Paul declines to charge anti-ICE church protesters for lack of evidence, even as the Justice Department prosecutes 39 of them under the FACE Act.
Trump tells the Supreme Court he will appeal the $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she said he sexually assaulted her in 1996.
New Jersey sues GEO Group in state court after inspectors were allowed into only the food service areas of the Newark migrant jail where detainees report tuberculosis and untreated illness.
Seven states sue to block the administration’s $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
U.S. proposes new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries over forced labor, reviving Trump’s nation-by-nation levies under a different law after the Supreme Court struck down the originals.
Acting Attorney General Blanche says the administration is permanently killing its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund but keeping the order that shields Trump’s family from tax audits.
