Justice Jackson publicly criticizes Supreme Court’s emergency rulings favoring Trump, saying the shadow docket is “not serving the court or this country well.”
Justice Department settles with Live Nation mid-trial without telling 28 state co-plaintiffs or the judge, who calls it “absolute disrespect for the court.”
Anthropic sues over a dozen federal agencies and Pentagon leaders, calling its blacklisting for refusing to allow autonomous weapons and mass surveillance unconstitutional retaliation.
Federal judge disqualifies all three leaders of New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, ruling they were installed to circumvent Senate confirmation after Habba was barred.
Federal judge orders ICE to justify arrest of Nashville journalist who covered immigration raids the day before she was detained, after attorneys call crumpled, unserved warrant unconstitutional.
Federal judge voids 1,400 layoffs at Voice of America, ruling Kari Lake unlawfully ran the agency through an unconstitutional appointment.
CBP tells judge it cannot comply with order to begin $166 billion in illegal tariff refunds to 330,000 importers, asks for 45 days to build a system.
Federal judge orders Portland ICE officers to stop using tear gas after chemicals from their facility seeped into a nearby apartment building housing seniors, veterans, and disabled tenants.
Florida Bar says it “erroneously” told a watchdog group it was investigating Trump’s former personal lawyer after two federal judges ruled her appointment as U.S. attorney unconstitutional.
Newly released footage shows a 23-year-old U.S. citizen was driving slowly with brake lights on in Texas last March before an immigration agent shot him through his car window.
DOJ lawyer tells federal judge that RFK Jr.’s vaccine authority is “unreviewable,” including the hypothetical power to recommend Americans get measles instead of a vaccine.
Minnesota U.S. Attorney Rosen faces second contempt hearing in a week after judges find ICE lost immigrants’ property and ignored release orders across dozens of cases.
SEC settles fraud case for $10 million with crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, the top buyer of Trump’s World Liberty Financial token, after alleging $31 million in fraudulent trades.
Twenty-four state attorneys general file first legal challenge to Trump’s new 10% global tariffs, arguing he is sidestepping the Supreme Court’s rejection of his earlier tariffs.
Florida Bar investigates Trump’s former personal lawyer after two federal judges ruled her appointment as U.S. attorney unconstitutional and she continued using the title in defiance of court orders.
Federal judge orders $130 billion refund on illegal tariffs to importers who already passed the costs to consumers.
Virginia Supreme Court clears way for redistricting referendum a second time, allowing early voting to begin Friday despite Republican legal challenges.
Federal judge rules Trump’s effort to kill NYC congestion pricing unlawful, calling administration’s decision-making “arbitrary and capricious” in 149-page ruling.
New Jersey federal judge orders ICE agents to acknowledge court orders in writing under penalty of perjury after finding 17 violations in three months.
DOJ revives appeals against law firms one day after dropping them, as targeted firms argue court should reject the unexplained reversal.
Georgia jury convicts father of Apalachee High School shooter who bought son an AR-style rifle after deputies warned of possible attack threats.
FBI Director Patel fired a dozen counterintelligence staffers with Iran expertise days before strikes began, retaliating for their work on the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
ProPublica sues Education Department for hiding civil rights records as open discrimination investigations nearly doubled to 24,000 under Secretary McMahon.
Trump administration abandons appeals against four law firms it targeted for opposing the president, after four separate judges ruled the executive orders unconstitutional.
Federal judge blocks DHS detention visit policy for the third time as Noem keeps rewriting the same restriction to evade prior rulings.
Supreme Court preserves New York City’s only Republican congressional district after Justice Alito calls state court’s minority voting rights remedy “unadorned racial discrimination.”
Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket.
Mistakenly deported Babson College student refuses government flight from Honduras after learning feds plan to detain and re-deport her upon arrival.
Federal judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Minnesota refugees, calls administration policy a “dystopian nightmare.”
Department of the Treasury terminates collective bargaining agreements at IRS and Bureau of Fiscal Service, cancels all ongoing negotiations and arbitrations.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end Temporary Protected Status for Syrian nationals, accusing lower courts of “persistent disregard” for the court’s prior rulings on TPS terminations.
Federal Reserve challenges Jeanine Pirro’s subpoenas in sealed court proceedings, seeking to block the criminal probe Powell calls pretext for Trump’s campaign to control interest rates.
Judge rules California must let 20,000 immigrant truck drivers keep their licenses despite Trump administration threats to revoke the state’s authority to issue commercial licenses entirely.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks judge to toss smuggling charges as vindictive after unsealed records suggest DOJ leadership directed prosecution because he won his wrongful deportation case.
Judge allows Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom construction to continue, ruling the legal challenge was insufficient while calling the private funding mechanism a “Rube Goldberg” arrangement.
Federal judge rules IRS violated the law 42,695 times by disclosing confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE through an automated system that matched names and Social Security numbers in bulk.
Chief Judge Schiltz warns Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor and ICE they face criminal contempt after review finds 97 order violations in original cases and 113 more in 77 new cases since January.
Treasury blocks Venezuela from paying Maduro’s legal fees less than three hours after approving them, lawyer says move violates Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
DOJ tells court the $608M federal reimbursement Florida counted on for its Everglades detention facility won’t cover construction costs and may not materialize at all.
Supreme Court unanimously rejects GEO Group’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit alleging its Aurora immigration detainees were forced to work for $1 a day, sending the case back for trial.
Federal judge rules Trump’s policy of deporting immigrants to countries they have no connection to is illegal, ordering notice and the chance to challenge removals before they happen.
Texas grand jury declines to indict ICE agent who fatally shot 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Martinez on South Padre Island, days after the only passenger who contradicted the government’s account died in a car crash.
Federal judiciary asks Congress to take courthouse control from GSA after DOGE cuts eliminated nearly half the agency’s staff, leaving buildings with collapsing ceilings and contaminated water.
Fifteen states sue HHS and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over revised childhood vaccine schedule that cut recommended immunizations from 17 diseases to 11 without scientific review.
Legal advocates seek court order to stop CBP from pressuring unaccompanied immigrant children to self-deport before reaching shelters where federal law guarantees them attorneys and judges.
Appeals court allows IRS to continue sharing immigrant taxpayer data with ICE, months after the agency erroneously shared thousands of records beyond the agreement’s scope.
Judge bars DOJ from reviewing seized Washington Post reporter’s data, ordering independent judicial review after prosecutors failed to disclose law protecting journalists.
Pentagon appeals ruling that blocked Hegseth from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for video calling on troops to resist unlawful orders, after grand jury declined to indict.
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that USPS cannot be sued for intentionally failing to deliver mail, sending Black landlord’s racial harassment case back to lower courts.
Trump-appointed judge holds administration in civil contempt after ICE transferred a detainee to Texas in defiance of a court order, then released him without his belongings.
