Trump secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for his White House ballroom, routing it through an office exempt from competitive bidding, the Washington Post reports.
A federal judge dismisses the Justice Department’s suit demanding New Hampshire’s full voter registration database, another court rejection of the administration’s roll-collection campaign.
The Supreme Court strikes down federal limits on coordinated spending between parties and their candidates in a 6-3 ruling, months before the midterms, in a case Vance launched as a 2022 Senate candidate.
A federal judge blocks a Trump rule that would strip student loan forgiveness from public service workers whose employers the administration deems to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, holding that children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary residents are citizens.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
A federal judge permanently bars Trump from freezing Gateway tunnel funds he cut to punish Democrats during the shutdown, after New York and New Jersey sued.
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
Arkansas Governor Sanders moves forward Wednesday with a ban on buying candy and soda with SNAP benefits, days after a federal judge struck down identical restrictions in five states.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that police need a warrant to obtain a phone’s location history, finding geofence tracking is a Fourth Amendment search.
The Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states may count absentee ballots arriving after election day if postmarked on time, upholding Mississippi’s grace period.
The Supreme Court declines to hear Trump’s appeal of the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Justice Gorsuch warns the ruling lets presidents weaponize agencies against disfavored businesses, citing the FCC chairman’s threat over Jimmy Kimmel.
The Supreme Court overturns a 90-year precedent in a 6-3 ruling, giving Trump and future presidents power to fire independent regulators at will.
Homeland Security Secretary Mullin tells migrants to return to Haiti and Syria days after the Supreme Court cleared their removal, even as the State Department warns Americans not to visit.
Trump says work on a public Washington golf course will begin September 1, defying a federal judge’s warning not to start without court approval.
A federal judge orders the Justice Department to justify dropping its fraud and bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, calling its explanation terse and conclusory.
A Virginia judge blocks the state’s assault weapons ban six days before it takes effect, citing Supreme Court gun rulings, as Attorney General Jay Jones vows to appeal.
A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with “building bridges,” its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds “no power.”
ICE agents enter a Syracuse polling place to confront a poll worker over an Instagram post naming the agent who killed protester Renee Good, demanding she delete it, but she refused.
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified notes from his memoir, a rare win in Trump’s campaign of prosecutions against critics.
A federal appeals court rejects Trump’s EPA bid to abandon a 2024 rule tightening soot limits, leaving the standard the agency says will prevent 4,500 deaths a year in place.
Washington settles with a man arrested for playing the “Imperial March” behind National Guard troops in 2025, while his claims against the Ohio guardsman proceed.
An Alaska judge restores retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan to the U.S. Senate ballot against Senator Dan S. Sullivan, finding no evidence the challenger meant to confuse voters.
A federal judge orders the Justice Department to release unredacted Epstein files by July 2 or justify every withholding, after an independent journalist sued over redactions she calls illegal.
The Supreme Court rules 7-2 that federal pesticide law bars consumers from suing Monsanto for failing to warn that Roundup may cause cancer, ending tens of thousands of state lawsuits.
The fired Stars and Stripes ombudsman sues the Pentagon, alleging she was dismissed days after a column criticizing its efforts to control the military paper’s editorial independence.
A federal judge blocks the Education Department’s rule narrowing which graduate degrees count as “professional,” restoring access to doubled federal loan limits for fields like nursing.
A Tennessee judge temporarily blocks the state from handing immigration enforcement the names of about 400 chronically ill undocumented children before a law forcing the disclosure takes effect.
A federal judge blocks the Postal Service from refusing to mail ballots in states that won’t hand the federal government their voter rolls, one day after the postmaster general defended the plan to senators.
The Supreme Court clears the way for Trump to physically block migrants at the border from setting foot on U.S. soil and seeking asylum.
The Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii’s law requiring permission before carrying firearms into stores and other businesses open to the public.
North Carolina’s attorney general reaches a $7 million settlement barring a major landlord from algorithmic rent-setting, the third such deal in a case prosecutors say inflated rents statewide.
A federal judge throws out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against four New Jersey sanctuary cities, ruling it had no standing because state law already bars the cooperation it sought to end.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to explain a tarp covering the Kennedy Center façade where Trump’s name was stripped, which a board member calls petty defiance.
Chemours will pay $450 million to settle a decade of illegal “forever chemical” discharges into three rivers, the first federal PFAS-manufacturer deal, which an affected state calls inadequate.
A federal judge permanently blocks key parts of Trump’s election order, including a proof-of-citizenship requirement to vote, ruling the president has no constitutional power over elections.
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth’s names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate cannot sue the Louisiana officials who shaved his head despite the religious-rights court order he showed them.
A federal judge throws out the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Maryland’s confidential voter database, the ninth court to reject the administration’s bid for state voter rolls.
A federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses nationwide, ruling the agency skipped required rulemaking and showed ‘a complete lack of decision-making.’
Eight activists get up to 100 years for a Texas ICE-facility attack that wounded a police officer, the first sentences under Trump’s antifa terrorism designation.
The Supreme Court refuses to let a Texas death row inmate present intellectual-disability evidence that could bar his execution, though state prosecutors backed his appeal.
A federal judge refuses to disqualify acting Attorney General Blanche and U.S. Attorney Pirro from prosecuting the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect, despite their statements that they could have been victims.
A one-year Republican ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood expires July 5 with no extension, after the Senate parliamentarian capped it at one year and the GOP concedes it lacks the votes.
Federal judge rules Trump’s national voter database illegal and orders it dismantled, finding agencies knew it violated privacy law but built it anyway.
Federal judge strikes down Agriculture Department waivers that let 22 states bar SNAP recipients from buying soda and candy, finding the agency rewrote the legal definition of food.
Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas targeting Governor Walz and other Minnesota leaders, ruling the demands were an unconstitutional effort to coerce immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after it warned Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
The Justice Department refuses a judge’s order to swear under oath that Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, calling the demand a separation-of-powers violation.
