Secretary of State Rubio orders a Colombian asylum-seeker detained for criticizing a Trump-endorsed candidate in Colombia’s election, calling his advocacy a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
A Trump-appointed judge orders the Milwaukee mosque president freed from ICE detention, finding his arrest may have been retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.
The Interior Department argues a 1910 law capping Washington building heights does not apply to federal projects, clearing Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington.
The Kennedy Center refuses to book any performances despite a court order to stay open, telling the judge it will decide on closing at a mid-July board vote.
Judge blocks the Justice Department from releasing Biden’s recorded interviews with his biographer for three weeks while he appeals.
Federal immigration authorities held an 8-year-old U.S. citizen in a Brooklyn shelter for nearly seven months, ignoring his birth certificate and releasing him only after a lawsuit and a judge’s ruling.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore climate change and Wabanaki Nations signs removed from Acadia and other national parks, ruling the removals rewrote history “with a white-out pen.”
A Missouri judge strikes down most of the state’s abortion restrictions and restores medication abortion for the first time since 2018, enforcing the reproductive-rights amendment voters passed in 2024.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Paul Johnson, a Minnesota protester allegedly beaten unconscious and shackled to a hospital bed for five days, the 20th of 36 ICE-surge cases abandoned.
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration’s appeal to strip Philadelphia’s President’s House slavery exhibits, undoing a February order that had forced their restoration.
A federal appeals court lets Ohio enforce its 2023 law requiring parental consent before children under 16 use social media, reversing a block in place since 2024.
The Supreme Court bars prosecuting a Texas marijuana user under the federal law banning illegal-drug users from owning guns, calling it a Second Amendment violation.
ICE signs a $10 million contract to buy immigrants’ taxpayer ID data from a private broker months after courts blocked the IRS from sharing it.
Trump settles his $100 million lawsuit against niece Mary Trump over her leak of his tax records to the New York Times.
Connecticut Governor Lamont nominates Appellate Chief Judge Melanie Cradle to become the state’s first Black woman on its Supreme Court.
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
Virginia defends its July 1 bans on masked federal agents and local ICE cooperation as the Justice Department sues to overturn them.
Wyoming Governor Gordon sues the tax board he appointed to force certification of home values it withheld over a 2024 cap creating unequal assessments.
The Justice Department joins a conservative legal group’s suit to dismantle Evanston’s first-in-the-nation reparations program, calling race-based eligibility unconstitutional.
New Mexico orders JPMorgan, Google, and two dozen companies to preserve Epstein records, going around a Justice Department it says withholds unredacted files.
A federal judge recuses herself from the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Georgia’s voter rolls after it questioned her ties to Trump’s former prosecutor there.
A federal judge blocks most of Idaho’s law making transgender bathroom use a crime, two weeks before it would have taken effect.
Preservation groups sue to block Trump’s planned 250-statue National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park, citing a congressional ban on new monuments in the Mall’s core.
The Supreme Court declines to revive Carter Page’s lawsuit against former FBI director Comey over the 2016 Russia-probe surveillance, after the administration paid Page $1.25 million in April.
The FBI searches a voting-rights group’s Cleveland offices and seizes staff devices statewide without saying what crime it suspects, five months before the midterm elections.
Trump picks his own hush-money appeal lawyer James McDonald to run the powerful Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office.
The Kennedy Center removes Trump’s name from its façade after losing two court bids to keep it past Saturday’s deadline.
Fourteen Republican attorneys general ask the EPA to regulate the abortion pill mifepristone as a water contaminant, a claim environmental scientists say has no evidence.
A federal judge clears the UFC’s fight card to proceed on the White House South Lawn Sunday, rejecting a corruption suit over the 154-foot arena built on parkland.
A federal judge dismisses the University of Florida College Republicans’ free speech lawsuit over a deactivation that followed a member’s Nazi salute photo.
A federal judge permanently blocks Trump’s $1.78 billion fund to pay January 6 rioters, saying she does not trust officials who refused to disavow it under oath.
The Trump administration agrees to resume asylum processing for 39 countries after a judge ruled there was no excuse for defying his earlier order.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery and climate it stripped from national parks, ruling the removals unlawful censorship.
The Washington National Opera sues the Kennedy Center for $17 million, saying it refused to return donor gifts after the opera ended their partnership.
Alabama seeks to execute death row inmate Jeffery Lee by lethal injection a day after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his nitrogen gas execution.
Crews begin prying Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center after two courts reject the board’s last-ditch bid to keep it past a judge’s deadline.
Federal magistrate acquits former New York City comptroller Brad Lander of obstruction from his arrest while trying to inspect ICE holding rooms, finding his testimony credible.
Planned Parenthood sues to overturn Alaska’s ban on telehealth abortion services, arguing it violates state constitutional privacy rights in a state where many live off the road system.
Federal judge rules the EPA illegally killed a $2.8 billion environmental justice grant program but declines to order its restart.
Federal judge blocks Texas Attorney General Paxton from pursuing his ActBlue lawsuit, ruling it retaliation for fundraising that benefits his Senate opponent.
Federal judge tells Trump officials there is no excuse for ignoring his order to restart asylum processing frozen for 39 countries, demanding a compliance report within 24 hours.
New Mexico judge throws out a Republican lawsuit against Governor Lujan Grisham’s universal childcare program, ruling the legislature already endorsed it.
Supreme Court refuses to let Alabama execute Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas, ending the state’s push to proceed days after lower courts called the method unconstitutional.
Trump appeals one day before a court deadline to remove his name from the Kennedy Center, after his board directed the move.
Judge warns Justice Department not to play possum over the $1.8 billion fund Trump’s administration created to settle Trump’s own lawsuit.
Appeals court upholds ruling that Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions are unconstitutional, but the state says Thursday’s execution is proceeding anyway.
Florida’s Supreme Court lets Republicans use newly gerrymandered House districts in the midterms, potentially handing the GOP four more seats.
Federal judge rules Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions cruel and unusual two days before a scheduled execution, finding the inmate’s firing squad alternative feasible.
Georgia Republicans seek to impeach Judge Eleanor Ross as the Justice Department pushes to remove her from its voter roll case against the state.
Federal appeals court calls Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution method intolerably cruel but lets Thursday’s execution proceed.
