Sacramento DACA recipient deported after attending a routine immigration appointment returns home after federal judge rules her removal unlawful and orders her status restored.
Federal judge rules Trump’s executive order defunding NPR and PBS is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, though Congress already eliminated $1.1 billion in public broadcasting support.
Supreme Court rules 8-1 that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment, calling it viewpoint discrimination subject to strict scrutiny.
Federal judge orders University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to the EEOC for its antisemitism investigation.
Trump signs executive order directing DHS and Social Security to compile national voter lists by citizenship status, with DOJ ordered to prosecute noncompliant election officials.
Federal judge halts Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, ruling the project built on the demolished East Wing site requires congressional approval.
DOJ sues Minnesota over policies allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports, threatening nearly $3 billion in federal education funding.
Riverside County Sheriff Bianco pauses seizure of hundreds of thousands of ballots after California AG and voting rights groups petition courts to halt probe.
VA re-terminates labor contract covering 300,000 employees despite court order to restore it, and DOJ attorney tells judge the defiance makes her ruling “moot.”
Kansas legislature overrides governor’s veto to exempt crisis pregnancy centers from rules governing what medical information they provide to patients.
Jazz musician Chuck Redd asks judge to dismiss Kennedy Center lawsuit over his canceled Christmas Eve performance, saying he never signed a contract and there were no damages.
Federal judge orders Florida immigration detention facility to publish attorney visit policies and provide confidential legal phone calls to detainees.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against Minnesota’s in-state tuition policies for undocumented students, ruling the state’s benefits are not based solely on residency.
Judge weighs allowing Venezuela to pay Maduro’s legal fees after prosecutors argue U.S. sanctions block the funding and suggest a public defender.
California sheriff seizes a second batch of ballot materials from 2025 election as state attorney general sues to halt his investigation.
Appeals court allows federal tear gas near Portland ICE building again, two days before No Kings protest, as apartment residents stock gas masks.
Justice Department sues SeaWorld’s parent company over ban on wheeled walkers at its parks, alleging disability discrimination under the ADA.
Federal judge extends order requiring ICE give Minnesota detainees access to lawyers within one hour and blocks out-of-state transfers for 72 hours.
Federal judge temporarily blocks Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation of Anthropic, calling it an “Orwellian” punishment for disagreeing with the government.
Trump housing official Pulte issues two more criminal referrals against New York AG Letitia James over alleged insurance fraud, citing posts on X as evidence.
FEMA resumes $1 billion disaster mitigation program it canceled last year after a federal judge twice ordered the agency to restore funding won by 22 states.
Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent for failing to warn users of addiction dangers in first social media “Big Tobacco” bellwether trial.
Federal judge says the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic looks like “an attempt to cripple” the company for refusing to allow unrestricted military use of its AI.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to return a deported DACA recipient to the U.S. within seven days, calling her removal a flagrant violation of her protections.
Army judge orders prosecutors to search for any U.S. government evidence linking Iran to the 2000 USS Cole bombing after Trump claimed Tehran was “probably involved.”
Wisconsin jury convicts Harry Wait on felony identity theft and two misdemeanor election fraud counts for requesting absentee ballots in the names of the Assembly Speaker and Racine’s mayor.
California sues Trump for using the Defense Production Act to force restart of an offshore oil pipeline shut down after the 2015 Refugio Beach spill.
Newly unsealed transcript reveals DOJ prosecutor told a judge his office had no evidence of crimes by Fed Chair Powell, calling a $1.2 billion cost overrun enough reason to investigate.
New Mexico jury orders Meta to pay $375 million for harming children’s mental health and misleading parents about safety on Instagram and Facebook.
Minnesota sues the federal government for evidence in three ICE shootings during Operation Metro Surge, calling the categorical withholding of evidence unprecedented in American history.
Trump administration accepts a federal judge’s pick for New Jersey U.S. attorney after four of its own appointees were ruled unlawfully installed over eight months.
Eight architecture and preservation groups with over one million members sue Trump and the Kennedy Center board to block renovations that lack congressional approval or public plans.
Pentagon closes its press corridor and banishes reporters to an outside annex after a federal judge ruled its media crackdown violates the First Amendment.
Islamic private schools excluded from Texas’ $1 billion voucher program for months are accepted one day after a federal judge orders the state to let them apply.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Minnesota woman they accused of joining church protest after she proves she was never there, arrested through cellphone tower dragnet.
Federal judge orders ICE to grant clergy access to Minneapolis detainees, rejecting the government’s blanket security defense as “the land of Oz.”
New Jersey and Roxbury sue to block ICE from converting a 470,000-square-foot warehouse into a 1,500-bed detention center that could open within three months.
Rep. Swalwell drops his lawsuit against Trump housing official Bill Pulte, who ordered a mortgage fraud investigation into the congressman as apparent political retaliation.
House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Arlington prosecutor who limited an FBI-backed warrant in a case involving Stephen Miller’s wife.
Chicago Transit Authority sues the federal government over withholding $2 billion for the Red Line extension to the Far South Side, warns both projects may stop.
Justice Department sues Harvard to recoup federal grants and cut off future funding, alleging the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment.
Federal judge blocks Pentagon press restrictions that drove mainstream journalists from the building during the Iran war.
Protestant and Catholic clergy ask a federal judge to order pastoral access to immigrants held at the Minneapolis ICE facility that was the center of Operation Metro Surge.
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA’s endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Epstein’s longtime lawyer tells House panel he had “no knowledge whatsoever” of crimes, as Democrats press for details on a settlement with a woman who accused Trump.
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.’s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach “break it and see.”
Fired member of the board that hears federal workers’ appeals asks the Supreme Court to rule the president cannot remove officials whose only job is deciding cases.
Bronx high school student jailed by ICE at a court hearing last May is released after nearly 10 months in a Pennsylvania prison, with his attorneys saying he was in the country legally.
Fed holds rates steady for the second straight meeting as Powell says the war’s economic impact is “too soon to know,” while signaling he will stay on the board until the DOJ investigation against him is resolved.
Bondi appoints Brad Schimel as First Assistant U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee after federal judges decline to make him permanent, bypassing Senate confirmation in the latest clash over who controls prosecutor appointments.
