Federal judge rules DHS broke the law with its plan to halve FEMA’s 23,000-person workforce over FEMA’s own objections, calling the cut “pulled from thin air.”
Planned Parenthood sues to strike Wisconsin’s 24-hour abortion waiting period and physician-only rule as the state Supreme Court opens term with a 5-2 liberal majority.
Federal judge tosses Nashville Spanish-language reporter’s claim ICE arrested her in retaliation for covering raids, ruling on procedure and leaving the First Amendment question unanswered.
Justice Department sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC over in-state tuition for undocumented students, completing suits against every state with such laws, 25 total.
Federal judge halts “favorite Trump initiative” essay question on federal job applications after 16 months, finding it likely violates applicants’ First Amendment rights.
Justice Department appeals ruling that dismissed Trump’s IRS suit as collusive, 40 days after Attorney General Blanche killed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to win confirmation.
Justice Department deports Afghan permanent resident in first case ever decided by secret terrorism court dormant since 1996, on classified evidence her lawyers never saw.
Texas judge rules TikTok misled users about its child safety mode, finding it flagged rule-breaking posts “hard to find” instead of removing them.
Federal judge keeps Phoenix-area sheriff’s office under court monitoring in Arpaio-era racial profiling case, rejecting Justice Department-backed bid to end it over 46 unmet reforms.
Federal appeals court strikes down Energy Department’s emergency order keeping 64-year-old Michigan coal plant open 15 months past retirement, finding no specific shortage justified it.
Denver and three civil rights groups sue to bar armed ICE agents from polling places and ballot drop boxes in November, citing a Civil War-era law.
Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s Trump-encouraged congressional map for November as the state’s high court holds its election chief in contempt for telling counties to use it.
Federal appeals court in Richmond becomes the ninth to reject Trump’s no-bond detention policy, ruling immigrants already living in the US are entitled to bond hearings.
Nearly 2 dozen states sue to void 3 Trump rules weakening the Endangered Species Act, including one that stops counting habitat destruction as harm.
4 federal unions sue to halt the Agriculture Department’s relocation of 2,600 Washington-area employees as a disguised layoff after 1 in 3 reassigned workers decline.
Indiana prosecutor won’t charge a woman whose false abuse report took former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg’s 4-year-old twins from home for 24 hours, citing her mental illness.
Federal judge permanently bars West Point from making professors seek approval to publish or speak, a rule adopted a month after Trump’s “un-American” ideas order.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the second time in 3 days to unblock a Social Security-linked voter database a judge ruled “trampled” citizens’ privacy.
Justice Department subpoenas witnesses before a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district, escalating its year-long effort to prove the intelligence community conspired against Trump.
Trump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
Judge Tanya Chutkan orders 48 hours notice before any work beyond artifact surveys at the site of Trump’s 250-foot arch, a day after Interior Secretary Burgum said excavation starts within 2 weeks.
Prosecutors admit in court they have no evidence Olympian Davey Hearn damaged the Reflecting Pool yet fight a permanent dismissal, as Trump keeps claiming vandalism.
Federal magistrate orders Justice Department to name who conceived its scrapped $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” for people claiming unfair prosecution, rejecting weeks of resistance.
ICE agent Christian Castro pleads not guilty to 6 counts of lying about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis and goes free on $75,000 bond.
Federal judge lets Pentagon fire 3 Stars and Stripes journalists for telling CBS their reporting should be free of government influence, finding no clear First Amendment violation.
Supreme Court lets party committees buy midterm ads at discounted rates long limited to candidates, after Republican committees vowed hundreds of millions to “obliterate” Democrats.
Federal judge extends block on Trump’s Postal Service mail-voting order, ruling states can’t “pivot this late,” the same day North Carolina mails its first ballots.
Federal appeals court refuses to rehear Philadelphia’s fight to restore President’s House panels on 9 people Washington enslaved, leaving the city only a Supreme Court petition.
Federal appeals court blocks a ruling that let one Idaho doctor perform abortions to protect a mother’s health or prevent self-harm, restoring the state’s near-total ban.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Interior Secretary Burgum says excavation for Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington Cemetery starts within 2 weeks, while veterans and preservationists sue to stop it as unauthorized by Congress.
Fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer sues Justice Department, saying it ousted her in 2025 for refusing to fake an “independent review” restoring domestic-violence convict Mel Gibson’s gun rights.
Maryland Supreme Court lets voters decide 5-2 a constitutional amendment easing congressional redistricting, Democrats’ bid for all 8 House seats in answer to Trump’s Texas map push.
Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocks the Trump-backed congressional map for November, ruling it “has never been the law” until voters decide a 305,000-signature referendum.
Billionaire Leon Black sues House Oversight to block Epstein subpoenas and skips his deposition, leaving Chairman Comer an empty chair and Democrats calling for contempt.
Justice Department charges ICE agent Christian Castro with lying about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one day after ProPublica reported it blocked civil rights charges against him.
Captured Venezuelan leader Maduro asks a Manhattan judge to toss his drug indictment on head-of-state immunity, arguing no US court has ever tried a sitting foreign leader.
Immigrant rights group CHIRLA sues Homeland Security to halt voter roll matching that claims 190,000 noncitizens registered in California, a figure it calls “almost certainly widely incorrect.”
Federal judge blocks Trump’s second birthright citizenship order as “almost certainly unconstitutional,” citing the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against the first 2 months earlier.
Justice Department sides with OpenAI against The New York Times, arguing a copyright win for news publishers would “threaten national security” and subsidize “old mainstream media.”
Federal judge rejects Justice Department’s bid to break up Google’s ad tech business, ordering behavior changes instead, 16 months after ruling it an illegal monopoly.
ICE frees a Washington state roofer in Louisiana without his passport, 2,000 miles from home, after a judge ruled his pending trafficking visa barred his detention.
Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students’ transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Postal Service whistleblower tells House Democrats the agency is secretly building a voter screening system, tested for 4 days, despite last week’s court block.
Pentagon gives 3 million personnel ChatGPT and Musk’s Grok for unclassified work, days after a judge ruled it unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic for refusing surveillance and weapons uses.
Federal judge pauses Florida and Texas’s bid to revoke the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide until after the midterms, at the FDA’s request during its safety review.
FTC and over 20 states sue Amazon, alleging it secretly bid in its own ad auctions since 2018 to overcharge sellers more than $20 billion.
38 Minnesota church protesters including ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon seek dismissal, saying Homeland Security used over 90 customs summonses to gather phone and travel records without judicial approval.
Supreme Court lets White House ballroom construction continue 5-4, Chief Justice Roberts dissenting, as the 65% complete project could finish before courts decide its legality.
Trump administration appeals the June order barring it from freezing NY-NJ rail tunnel funds it withheld to punish Democrats, after 4 court losses.
