Trump administration abandons appeals against four law firms it targeted for opposing the president, after four separate judges ruled the executive orders unconstitutional.
Federal judge blocks DHS detention visit policy for the third time as Noem keeps rewriting the same restriction to evade prior rulings.
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.”
Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket.
Mistakenly deported Babson College student refuses government flight from Honduras after learning feds plan to detain and re-deport her upon arrival.
Federal judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Minnesota refugees, calls administration policy a “dystopian nightmare.”
Department of the Treasury terminates collective bargaining agreements at IRS and Bureau of Fiscal Service, cancels all ongoing negotiations and arbitrations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Judge bars DOJ from reviewing seized Washington Post reporter’s data, ordering independent judicial review after prosecutors failed to disclose law protecting journalists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Federal judges reject Republican effort to restore a congressional map that split Salt Lake County four ways after voters created an independent redistricting commission.
Trump settles copyright lawsuit with Isaac Hayes estate over unauthorized use of “Hold On, I’m Coming” at least 133 times at campaign rallies.
Judge Cannon blocks public release of Jack Smith’s classified documents report, citing her own 2024 ruling that his appointment was unconstitutional.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional.
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.
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.
Federal judge holds government attorney in civil contempt with $500 daily fines after ICE released detained Minnesota man in Texas without his identification documents.
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.
Trump administration appeals order to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibits as judge sets Friday deadline and invokes Orwell’s 1984 in ruling.
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.
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.
