Missouri judge rules citizens cannot force a referendum on the state’s gerrymandered congressional map, rejecting a petition signed by over 300,000 voters.
Kennedy Center board votes to restore Trump’s name in September and close for renovations, telling the judge who ordered both undone in court filings.
Rubio sanctions ICC President Tomoko Akane and a senior trial lawyer as the State Department pursues its declared campaign to dismantle the court.
Judge Dolly Gee orders independent monitoring of children in immigration detention after finding families denied soap, held in freezing cells, and delayed medical care.
Judge allows paint tests on the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building while weighing whether Trump illegally seized GSA authority over the project.
Ninth Circuit rules Nevada US Attorney Chattah was unlawfully appointed, ending the maneuver that kept her in office a year past her interim term.
Minnesota sues Texas Governor Abbott for refusing to extradite the ICE agent charged with shooting a man during Operation Metro Surge.
Disney sues the FCC and Chair Carr to halt the early license review of all eight ABC stations, calling it retaliation for speech Trump dislikes.
Texas families ask the Supreme Court to strike the state law requiring Ten Commandments displays in every public school classroom.
4 states seeking up to $1.4 trillion take Meta to federal trial over claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children.
Voting rights coalition sues New Hampshire to restore school-issued IDs for registering and voting, arguing the repeal deliberately targets young voters.
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s rehearing request in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case, making the $5 million verdict final and unchallengeable.
Judge permanently blocks the FBI headquarters move within Washington, ruling the administration illegally diverted over $1 billion Congress appropriated for the Greenbelt, Maryland site.
BBC tells a court Trump refused to accept subpoenas on his family’s behalf in his $10 billion defamation suit, with Secret Service blocking service.
Federal prosecutors spent a year investigating the daughter of the judge who oversaw Trump’s hush-money conviction, narrowing their sweeping subpoena to a $468 payment.
Renderings in Trump’s Supreme Court filing show gold presidential seals on the ballroom exterior, gilding absent from the plans federal commissions approved.
Trump administration formally calls the July missile threat against his plane an assassination attempt to argue the Supreme Court should allow ballroom construction.
Federal discrimination cases frozen for months suddenly restarted days after a union sued the EEOC, which calls the halt a judge’s error.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to let White House ballroom construction continue, arguing the 65% built project is nuclear-grade concrete, impossible to deconstruct.
Judge rules border security outweighs Tohono O’odham objections, refusing to block 62 miles of wall on the tribe’s Arizona reservation without its consent.
Judge Sullivan warns he will hold DOJ lawyers in contempt over Epstein files, citing the Stevens case where he did exactly that.
Washington judge orders Kalshi to stop taking bets on sports, elections, and politics, ruling the prediction platform violates state gambling law.
22 states sue to block DHS from seizing 17 million commercial drivers’ records after the administration threatened $10 million in grant funding.
Federal judge rules the 14th Amendment protects abortion when pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or health, blocking Idaho’s ban in those cases.
Massachusetts judge orders a county sheriff to release ICE detainees’ anonymized health records, ruling a federal contract cannot override state public records law.
Nevada judge dismisses forgery charges against the state’s six 2020 fake electors a second time, ruling prosecutors failed to prove fraudulent intent.
Judge dismisses the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, calling the cited incidents too isolated to show institutional civil rights violations.
Kennedy Center board votes 20-3 to add Trump’s name to the building three months after a judge ruled only Congress can rename it.
Emily Moreno sues Rep. Max Miller after 400,000 people accessed his posted Dropbox folder containing a nude photo of their 2-year-old daughter.
Pirro convenes a rare special grand jury that can issue reports on Trump critics without indictments after Trump’s rebuke over the Reflecting Pool dismissal.
The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation sue Trump over Truth API, arguing the $100,000 monthly feed sells early access to official statements.
Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn settles with the city of Marion, Kansas, for $850,000, three years to the day after police raided her newspaper.
Seven FIU students sue after the university demanded apology videos for a silent anti-ICE protest, withholding their degrees unless they comply.
Kennedy Center must pay musician Chuck Redd $250,000 in legal fees after its retaliatory suit over his canceled Christmas concert protesting Trump’s name.
Judge expands to all 50 states her block on the Postal Service carrying out Trump’s mail voting limits, noting DOJ never defended the order’s constitutionality.
Four human rights groups sue over Trump’s ICC sanctions, calling them an unconstitutional attack on justice weeks after Rubio vowed to systematically disable the court.
Judge orders VA to restore its 320,000-employee union contract after the department’s third termination attempt this year defied her standing injunction.
Judge orders DOJ to justify holding an Afghan permanent resident whose lawyers cannot see the classified evidence in the first secret deportation court case.
Trump names staff secretary Will Scharf White House counsel, elevating the personal attorney who won his Supreme Court presidential immunity case.
Federal judge orders CBP to free a Montana father of three detained without warrant in a case of mistaken identity and driven across four towns in 30 hours.
Federal judge blocks HUD from redirecting $4 billion in homelessness funding away from permanent housing, the agency’s third loss on the same overhaul.
Federal judge orders a Virginia school board to strip the Confederate names it restored in 2024, ruling the reversal violated Black students’ civil rights.
Fired federal prosecutor sues DOJ, alleging Bondi dismissed him within 3 hours of a MAGA influencer surfacing his decade-old anti-Trump blog.
Trump moves again to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud claims, giving her 21 days to respond after the Supreme Court blocked his first attempt.
Appeals court halts construction on Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, ruling 2-1 that only Congress can approve changes to the building.
A federal judge orders the Pentagon to resume wind project reviews it froze for a year, stalling 125 projects across 25 states on radar claims.
FCC votes 2-1 to eliminate the 39% TV ownership cap Congress wrote into law in 2004, claiming authority to repeal the statutory limit itself.
The union for career IRS auditors sues to block the audit immunity acting AG Blanche granted Trump’s family, calling the settlement breathtakingly corrupt.
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million to abate youth harms, finding Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance connecting predators to children.
Trump signs new orders restricting birthright citizenship 5 weeks after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 his broader denial violated the 14th Amendment.
