Maryland attorney general sues to block ICE from converting a $102 million warehouse into a 1,500 person detention facility in a town of 2,000 without environmental review or public input.
FedEx becomes first major company to sue for refund of Trump’s tariffs after Supreme Court ruled them illegal, joining Costco and others with pending claims.
Federal judges reject Republican effort to restore a congressional map that split Salt Lake County four ways after voters created an independent redistricting commission.
Trump settles copyright lawsuit with Isaac Hayes estate over unauthorized use of “Hold On, I’m Coming” at least 133 times at campaign rallies.
Judge Cannon blocks public release of Jack Smith’s classified documents report, citing her own 2024 ruling that his appointment was unconstitutional.
EU demands United States honor July trade agreement after Trump raises global tariff from 10% to 15% in response to Supreme Court ruling blocking his emergency tariffs.
Federal judge seizes control of Arizona’s entire prison health care system after 14 years of litigation, two contempt findings and 131 of 154 court-ordered health standards violated, covering at least 25,000 incarcerated people.
JPMorgan admits for the first time that it closed Trump’s bank accounts after the Jan. 6 attack, as his $5 billion lawsuit alleges the bank also placed him on a reputational blacklist shared across the industry.
Maxwell challenges Epstein transparency law as unconstitutional to block 90,000 pages of depositions and private records from Giuffre’s civil defamation lawsuit against her.
Trump raises global tariffs to 15%, the maximum allowed under a separate trade law, one day after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariff powers 6-3.
Federal judge rebukes Justice Department for concealing a press freedom law when seeking a warrant to raid Washington Post reporter’s home, seizing her phone, computers and records.
Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously strikes down the state’s charter school law, ruling it violates the constitutional requirement for a common school system overseen by elected boards.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to halt reinstallation of Philadelphia slavery exhibit one day after panels honoring nine people enslaved by George Washington were restored.
Deputy AG Blanche fires court-appointed U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia hours after federal judges unanimously selected him, the third such firing in seven months.
Gov. Spanberger signs Virginia Democrats’ proposed congressional map favoring 10 of 11 seats, sending it to an April referendum still blocked by a state court judge.
Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional.
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariff authority 6-3, ruling the law he used to impose duties on nearly every country does not authorize tariffs; Trump announces new 10% global tariff hours later.
Federal judge accuses Trump administration of “terror” against immigrants and violence against its own citizens, finding DHS violated her order to end mandatory detention nationwide.
Federal judge holds government attorney in civil contempt with $500 daily fines after ICE released detained Minnesota man in Texas without his identification documents.
Justice Department admits to violating more than 50 court orders in New Jersey immigration cases, including 17 transfers of detainees after judges ruled they could not be moved.
Trump administration appeals order to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibits as judge sets Friday deadline and invokes Orwell’s 1984 in ruling.
Seventeen health and environmental groups sue EPA over repeal of the endangerment finding, the 2009 scientific framework that allowed regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
Governor Moore signs law banning Maryland police from participating in ICE’s 287(g) program after finding the majority of those arrested by ICE in the state were never convicted of a crime.
Federal judge bars ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Ábrego García, ruling his detention was unconstitutional and dismissing administration threats to deport him to Africa as “empty.”
Six conservation groups sue Interior Secretary Burgum over removal of hundreds of exhibits on slavery, climate change, and Indigenous history from national parks.
NAACP and civil rights groups sue to prevent Trump administration from using Fulton County voter data seized by FBI to purge rolls or intimidate voters.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House in Philadelphia, quoting Orwell and comparing government to “Ministry of Truth.”
Trump administration secretly deports nine people to Cameroon despite most having court protections against removal, none of them from that country, shackled on a DHS flight from Louisiana.
Congressman Raskin confirms a whistleblower’s account of inhumane conditions at a Baltimore ICE facility after a surprise inspection found 55 detainees packed into a single room.
Federal judge orders ICE to allow Catholic priests into a Chicago-area detention facility for Ash Wednesday, ruling the agency violated religious freedom law by ending a decade of weekly visits.
Trump administration releases $30 million of $205 million in frozen funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project after two states sued and an appeals court upheld the order to pay.
ICE agents followed Minnesota protesters to their homes, shouted their addresses, aimed rifles at them and mocked the death of Renee Good, according to nearly 100 sworn statements filed in federal court.
Virginia Supreme Court allows Democrats to hold an April 21 special election on a proposed 10D-1R congressional map while a legal challenge to the redistricting effort continues.
ICE places two agents on administrative leave for lying under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one week after an agent killed Renee Good in the same city.
Two Washington golfers sue to block Trump’s overhaul of a century-old public golf course where crews are dumping White House demolition debris on historic parkland.
Affordable housing residents ask federal judge to restrict DHS chemical munitions near Portland ICE facility, saying tear gas seeping into units caused heart failure and breathing problems.
Don Lemon, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, and three activists plead not guilty to federal charges for protesting ICE enforcement at a St. Paul church.
Federal judge orders the government to fly deported Venezuelans back to the U.S. for court hearings, ruling the 137 men were denied due process before being sent to an El Salvador prison.
Columbia protest detainee Leqaa Kordia says she was chained to a hospital bed for 72 hours after a seizure, nearly a year into detention without criminal charges.
Federal judge orders ICE to stop blocking thousands of Minnesota detainees from contacting attorneys, calling the agency’s claim it provided access “threadbare” and unsupported by evidence.
Federal judge blocks $600 million in public health funding cuts targeting four Democratic states, finding the grants were likely rescinded to retaliate against immigration enforcement opposition.
Federal judge rules Defense Secretary Hegseth violated the First Amendment by censuring Senator Mark Kelly over a video telling troops they can refuse illegal orders.
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro sues her hometown of Rye, New York, and Con Edison for $250,000 after tripping over a wooden block in the street.
Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells.
Federal judge blocks Trump from transferring Biden-commuted death row inmates to supermax prison, ruling the transfer process “cannot be a sham.”
DOJ fires a U.S. attorney hours after federal judges appointed him in Albany, with Deputy AG Blanche announcing on X: “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.”
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota sue to block $600 million in CDC public health funding cuts the states say are driven by political retaliation over immigration enforcement disagreements.
IRS improperly shared confidential tax data of thousands of immigrants with DHS, breaching legal protections courts had already ruled violated taxpayers’ rights.
Federal Judicial Center removes 90-page climate science chapter from official reference manual for U.S. judges after Republican attorneys general call it biased.
Trump administration agrees not to withhold K-12 school funding over DEI programs after 19 state attorneys general sue.
