Environmental groups sue Interior Department over approval of BP’s ultra-deepwater Gulf drilling project on 16th anniversary of Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court strikes down state Medicaid abortion coverage ban as sex-based discrimination under state Equal Rights Amendment.
Justice Department and Maryland separately sue DC Water over February Potomac sewage spill, alleging neglected maintenance of aging sewer line.
CBP opens $166 billion importer refund portal two months after Supreme Court loss as administration studies reducing payouts.
U.S. Customs opens portal Monday for $166 billion in tariff refunds, two months after Supreme Court struck down Trump tariffs.
D.C. Circuit clears Trump White House ballroom construction through June, pausing Judge Leon’s halt on security grounds.
Federal judge blocks Nexstar’s $6.2 billion takeover of Tegna until antitrust trial, despite FCC and DOJ approval Trump personally endorsed in February.
Trump and IRS open talks to settle his $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records against the agency he now oversees.
Fine Arts Commission, stacked with Trump appointees, approves 250-foot triumphal arch that will dwarf Lincoln Memorial and obstruct Arlington Cemetery views.
House defies Trump, votes 224-204 to extend Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats.
Trump administration releases $3.4 billion in Second Avenue subway funding minutes before MTA lawsuit hearing, after seven-month DEI standoff.
Federal judge reaffirms halt on above-ground White House ballroom construction, calling Trump’s claim it implicates presidential safety “disingenuous.”
Justice Department adds terrorism charge against Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. five years after DNC and RNC plantings.
Trump threatens to fire Fed Chair Powell if he doesn’t step down May 15, as Warsh confirmation remains blocked.
California Supreme Court disbars former Trump attorney Eastman over 2020 election scheme, five years after Jan. 6.
Kentucky’s Republican supermajority overrides most of Gov. Beshear’s vetoes, including a judicial budget that courts say would force drug and mental health courts to close.
Customs agency will begin issuing refunds April 20 from $166 billion in tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as unlawful in February.
Prosecutors from D.C. U.S. Attorney Pirro’s office show up unannounced at Federal Reserve headquarters demanding a tour of renovations a judge already ruled were investigative pretext.
Federal judge rules 61 fired Fannie Mae workers of Indian descent cannot sue housing director Pulte after he accused them of fraud on television without evidence.
Justice Department asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of 12 Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders who organized the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Man shot seven times by ICE agents during a traffic stop appears in court in a wheelchair and is charged with assaulting a federal officer.
Appeals court blocks Judge Boasberg for a second time from investigating whether Trump officials committed contempt over Venezuela deportation flights.
IBM pays $17 million to settle Trump administration’s first Civil Rights Fraud Initiative case while denying it ever engaged in the DEI practices it agreed to end.
Federal judge dismisses Trump’s defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over a sexually suggestive letter gifted to Jeffrey Epstein but gives him two weeks to refile.
Trump administration settles lawsuit and agrees to permanently restore the Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument two months after ordering its removal.
Trump administration fires two immigration judges who blocked deportations of pro-Palestinian students Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi.
Appeals court allows White House ballroom construction to continue until Thursday, ordering lower court to examine Trump’s national security claims.
Appeals court restores DOGE access to Social Security data despite government admitting its associates may have improperly accessed and shared sensitive records.
Federal grand jury subpoenas Reddit to unmask anonymous user who criticized ICE online after the agency’s earlier court attempt to identify them failed.
DOJ urges judge to overturn ruling barring it from directly searching Washington Post reporter’s phone and laptops seized in January raid.
Trump administration files renderings for 250-foot arch near Arlington Cemetery as veterans’ lawsuit and Judge Chutkan’s construction notice requirement remain in effect.
Federal judge rules Pentagon violated court order restoring press access, calling escort policy “viewpoint discrimination, full stop.”
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit demanding Massachusetts hand over voter names, birth dates, and partial Social Security numbers.
Immigration appeals board denies Mahmoud Khalil’s bid to dismiss deportation case, moving the former Columbia protest leader closer to re-arrest.
National Trust tells appeals court that halting Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom poses no national security emergency.
Judge rules Harvard scientist’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she spent a year in immigration detention over biological samples from her cancer research.
California Supreme Court unanimously orders Riverside County sheriff to pause investigation and stop reviewing 500,000 seized election ballots.
Minnesota school districts ask federal judge to restore immigration enforcement limits near schools after ICE operations drove attendance down 40%.
Appeals court lets Pentagon keep its ban on Claude AI for military use, but a separate ruling lets other federal agencies keep using it.
Environmental groups ask appeals court to reinstate order closing an immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades after state received $608 million in federal funding.
Trump administration tells judge it still plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia despite a new agreement with Costa Rica, because the U.S. spent “political capital” negotiating with the West African nation.
After a judge blocked his hand-picked vaccine advisors for lacking expertise, Kennedy rewrites the CDC panel’s charter to give himself broader appointment power.
Supreme Court sends Bannon’s contempt conviction back to lower court after Trump’s DOJ moves to dismiss its own case.
Appeals court reinstates $656 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority over attacks that killed or wounded Americans in Israel.
Federal judge blocks Trump order requiring colleges in 17 states to hand over seven years of race-based admissions data, calling the process “rushed and chaotic.”
Family says 3-year-old immigrant girl suffered sexual abuse in government foster care during five months of detention her father spent trying to get her released.
Trump administration files emergency appeal to continue $400 million White House ballroom, calling federal judge’s halt “shocking” and citing national security.
Florida AG Uthmeier declares he won’t enforce the state constitution’s ban on public funding for religious institutions, arguing Christianity is central to national identity.
Federal judge rules Trump’s mandatory detention policy violates federal law, allowing up to 60 immigration detainees per week in Nevada to seek bond.
Justice Alito was hospitalized for dehydration after a Federalist Society dinner in March, an incident the court did not disclose for two weeks.
