ICE writes state law “shall not apply” into detention contracts for four states one day after a judge ruled a contract cannot override state oversight.
DOJ seeks its first-ever deportation through a secret-evidence terrorism court dormant since 1996, targeting an Afghan mother tied to a convicted Election Day plotter.
Musk’s X.AI sues to overturn Minnesota’s ban on AI nudification apps as free speech, a law the legislature passed with one dissenting vote.
Federal judge permanently dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Jersey voters’ private data, the 17th district court to reject the administration’s requests.
Arbitrator rules HHS illegally fired 5,000 probationary employees, finding the mass terminations a reduction in force masquerading as performance dismissals.
DOJ brings first known charges against a citizen for giving border agents a duress passcode that wiped his phone during a warrantless airport search.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to void E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation award, arguing presidential immunity covers his denials of sexually abusing her.
Florida executes two men hours apart, its first same-day executions since 1964, putting to death an 80-year-old and a former police officer.
New federal rule cancels asylum interviews for up to 444,000 cases, sending applicants who entered legally straight to deportation proceedings.
Appeals panel declines to block Trump’s mail voting order on procedural grounds one day after he asked the Supreme Court to revive it in a separate blocked case.
Ex-FBI Director Comey moves to dismiss the felony case over his seashell photo, arguing 86 means eject in every dictionary and the prosecution itself punishes speech.
Trump-appointed judge upholds the makeup of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission after interfaith groups sued over its exclusion of non-Judeo-Christian faiths.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to revive his blocked mail-voting restrictions two days after an appeals court warned of mass disenfranchisement.
Judge orders ICE to free a witness to its fatal Houston shooting, ruling his detention without a hearing violates due process.
Appeals court blocks Trump’s order directing the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to voters missing from federal citizenship lists, keeping it out of November’s elections.
Energy Department admits in court it canceled $7.5 billion in clean energy grants based solely on whether states voted Democratic, contradicting sworn testimony denying politics.
Paramount agrees to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger for months after 12 states suing to block it won a restraining order.
Biden drops his lawsuit blocking release of his private ghostwriter recordings, clearing DOJ to hand them to House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation.
Appeals court blocks the end of TPS for Haitians through Monday, a four-day reprieve for 350,000 people whose work permits were set to expire Friday.
DOJ withdraws subpoenas of three New York Times reporters and their family members after a judge threatens sanctions, though it vows to keep hunting their sources.
Federal judges let Tennessee’s map splitting majority-Black Memphis into three districts stand for August, ruling partisan motive explains the dilution without proof of racial intent.
Trump imposes 10% to 12.5% tariffs on 60 economies under a forced labor rationale, his third scheme since the Supreme Court struck his tariffs in February.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth’s new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Special prosecutor drops all 16 charges against Louisiana Attorney General Murrill after the New Orleans officials she allegedly threatened ask to end the case.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
The Merit Systems Protection Board stops calling itself independent, scrubbing the word from its website after the Supreme Court expanded presidential firing power.
Judge orders Trump to open financial records of 400-plus family trust companies to the BBC in his own defamation suit over Jan. 6 editing.
Appeals court rules 2-1 that DOJ can release Biden’s private ghostwriter recordings to the Heritage Foundation, pausing until Aug. 3 for appeal.
Fired U.S. Attorney Rogoff sues Trump, arguing his removal 54 minutes after judges unanimously appointed him to a Seattle vacancy was illegal.
Appeals court unanimously upholds Trump adviser Navarro’s contempt of Congress conviction, ruling he invented an executive privilege claim Trump never actually made.
Federal judge blocks ICE from deporting a witness to agents’ fatal shooting of a Houston man whose family disputes the government’s account.
Federal judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuits against Minnesota, its two largest cities, and Hennepin County over sanctuary policies, ruling preemption claims failed.
Trump orders debarment officials to review a judicial science manual over its climate chapter, which the judiciary already withdrew under Republican pressure.
Federal judge pauses Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. takeover for 14 days after 12 states sue, one month after Trump’s Justice Department approved it.
Justice Department activates a secret 1996 terrorist deportation court for the first time, filing a sealed, classified case its own judge called insufficiently thought through.
New York Mayor Mamdani reviews whether the city can arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on his ICC war crimes warrant during a September UN visit.
Full federal appeals court strikes down New Jersey’s 36-year-old assault weapons ban and magazine limits, splitting with every other circuit.
Federal judge rules the administration illegally used an OMB budget clause to cancel billions in grants Congress already approved for states.
Federal judge scolds Justice Department lawyers for citing an apparently AI-fabricated case while opposing an ICE detainee’s release petition.
Louisville jury orders ghost gun sellers to pay $104 million to the mother of a teen who killed himself with a kit shipped without a background check.
Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep requiring government escorts for journalists, overturning a judge who found the restrictions defied his prior order.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Mexico voter rolls with Social Security numbers, one of 14 such lawsuits yet to yield any data.
Federal judge blocks State Department from revoking visas and green cards of researchers targeted solely for working in content moderation and disinformation fields.
National Park Service installs panels overnight at Philadelphia’s President’s House saying Washington’s enslaved staff enjoyed autonomy and theater tickets, replacing exhibits on slavery’s brutality.
New York Times moves to quash grand jury subpoenas FBI agents served at three reporters’ homes demanding they name confidential sources.
Trump fires the U.S. attorney federal judges appointed in Seattle less than an hour after his swearing-in, without responding to two weeks of outreach.
Justice Department subpoenas 13 top law firms for their communications with Trump’s personal lawyer while asking a judge to shield the White House’s own records.
E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6 million from Trump three years after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse, and two weeks after the Supreme Court declined his appeal.
Twelve states sue to block the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger the Justice Department approved over its own staff lawyers’ objections.
