Federal judge voids the Energy Department’s policy closing older public records requests unless requesters emailed to reconfirm interest, ruling FOIA grants no such authority.
Federal judge holds DHS in contempt for slow-walking her order to turn over 800 immigration agents’ cellphone records from the Los Angeles raids.
New Mexico sues DOJ and acting AG Blanche for withholding unredacted Epstein files that reference Zorro Ranch more than 13,000 times.
Federal judge in Texas voids 90-year-old registration rules for gun suppressors and short-barreled rifles, a year after Trump’s tax bill eliminated the $200 tax underpinning them.
Federal judge refuses to delay her takeover of Arizona’s prison healthcare system, ruling harm to the state pales beside inmates’ unconstitutional suffering.
Federal judge orders ICE to release a Cambodian refugee brought to Providence as an infant in 1976, detained at a check-in to deport him.
Kansas judge strikes down decades of abortion restrictions as “not even a close call,” hours before being sworn onto the state Supreme Court.
Judge “reluctantly” grants DOJ’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 prosecution against eight Oath Keepers, writing that the epilogue “excuses criminal acts.”
Appeals court rules EPA cannot claw back $20 billion in clean energy grants terminated over a policy disagreement.
Prosecutors drop the last 3 Reflecting Pool vandalism cases, blaming the Trump administration’s own rushed contractor as Trump insists “VANDALS” caused the damage.
Transgender federal workers sue OPM over canceled insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, arguing the same treatments remain covered for other employees.
Federal judge blocks New York’s ban on masked ICE agents as unconstitutional state regulation of federal officers, while letting the state’s 287(g) prohibition stand.
Trump says Pirro “choked” in dropping Reflecting Pool charges against an Olympian, rejecting his own prosecutor’s 20-page memo finding no evidence of vandalism.
Capital One tells a court it closed more than 300 Trump Organization accounts after an anti-money laundering review, rejecting the family’s political-bias lawsuit.
25 states sue to block Trump’s third round of worldwide tariffs, calling forced-labor claims a pretext to revive taxes the Supreme Court struck down.
Trump vows to revive the $1.8 billion weaponization fund he declared dead 2 days ago, even at the cost of Blanche’s confirmation.
Trump appeals a ruling that his $10 billion IRS lawsuit was a bad-faith vehicle for taxpayer funds and audit immunity, hours after calling the fund dead.
Georgia father who gave his son the AR-15 used in the Apalachee school shooting gets 15 years on 27 counts.
New Mexico’s attorney general sues the state’s own child welfare agency for telling a teen in its custody to walk alone into Mexico.
DACA mother of 3 sues after DHS deports her despite valid status, then moves to revoke it for unauthorized travel.
Ninth Circuit becomes the fifth appeals court to strike Trump’s no-bail detention of immigrants arrested away from the border.
ICE writes state law “shall not apply” into detention contracts for four states one day after a judge ruled a contract cannot override state oversight.
DOJ seeks its first-ever deportation through a secret-evidence terrorism court dormant since 1996, targeting an Afghan mother tied to a convicted Election Day plotter.
Musk’s X.AI sues to overturn Minnesota’s ban on AI nudification apps as free speech, a law the legislature passed with one dissenting vote.
Federal judge permanently dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Jersey voters’ private data, the 17th district court to reject the administration’s requests.
Arbitrator rules HHS illegally fired 5,000 probationary employees, finding the mass terminations a reduction in force masquerading as performance dismissals.
DOJ brings first known charges against a citizen for giving border agents a duress passcode that wiped his phone during a warrantless airport search.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to void E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation award, arguing presidential immunity covers his denials of sexually abusing her.
Florida executes two men hours apart, its first same-day executions since 1964, putting to death an 80-year-old and a former police officer.
New federal rule cancels asylum interviews for up to 444,000 cases, sending applicants who entered legally straight to deportation proceedings.
Appeals panel declines to block Trump’s mail voting order on procedural grounds one day after he asked the Supreme Court to revive it in a separate blocked case.
Ex-FBI Director Comey moves to dismiss the felony case over his seashell photo, arguing 86 means eject in every dictionary and the prosecution itself punishes speech.
Trump-appointed judge upholds the makeup of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission after interfaith groups sued over its exclusion of non-Judeo-Christian faiths.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to revive his blocked mail-voting restrictions two days after an appeals court warned of mass disenfranchisement.
Judge orders ICE to free a witness to its fatal Houston shooting, ruling his detention without a hearing violates due process.
Appeals court blocks Trump’s order directing the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to voters missing from federal citizenship lists, keeping it out of November’s elections.
Energy Department admits in court it canceled $7.5 billion in clean energy grants based solely on whether states voted Democratic, contradicting sworn testimony denying politics.
Paramount agrees to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger for months after 12 states suing to block it won a restraining order.
Biden drops his lawsuit blocking release of his private ghostwriter recordings, clearing DOJ to hand them to House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation.
Appeals court blocks the end of TPS for Haitians through Monday, a four-day reprieve for 350,000 people whose work permits were set to expire Friday.
DOJ withdraws subpoenas of three New York Times reporters and their family members after a judge threatens sanctions, though it vows to keep hunting their sources.
Federal judges let Tennessee’s map splitting majority-Black Memphis into three districts stand for August, ruling partisan motive explains the dilution without proof of racial intent.
Trump imposes 10% to 12.5% tariffs on 60 economies under a forced labor rationale, his third scheme since the Supreme Court struck his tariffs in February.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth’s new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Special prosecutor drops all 16 charges against Louisiana Attorney General Murrill after the New Orleans officials she allegedly threatened ask to end the case.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
The Merit Systems Protection Board stops calling itself independent, scrubbing the word from its website after the Supreme Court expanded presidential firing power.
Judge orders Trump to open financial records of 400-plus family trust companies to the BBC in his own defamation suit over Jan. 6 editing.
Appeals court rules 2-1 that DOJ can release Biden’s private ghostwriter recordings to the Heritage Foundation, pausing until Aug. 3 for appeal.
