Federal judge denies Trump’s request for more time to fight paying E. Jean Carroll $5.8 million, days after the Supreme Court refused his appeal.
The Justice Department admits it accidentally sent Jack Smith’s sealed report to lawyers for the former prosecutor charged with leaking that same report.
The Justice Department tells a federal judge its bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani was baseless, calling charges he misled U.S. investors a foreign matter.
Iowa restores SNAP recipients’ ability to buy soda and candy after a federal court rules the food-restriction waivers violate the federal definition of food.
A New Orleans special prosecutor refuses to withdraw the arrest warrant for Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill despite a state Supreme Court stay of her 16-count indictment.
Justice Department refuses court-ordered release of more Epstein files, seeking a 60-day delay and arguing the transparency act cannot be privately enforced.
Appeals court rules the Trump administration can keep slavery, climate, and immigration materials out of national parks, reversing a June restoration order.
Federal judge blocks USPS rule refusing to deliver mail ballots in states that withhold voter lists, ruling it violates a 2021 NAACP settlement.
Federal judge demands assurances Trump won’t start East Potomac golf course renovations before the lawsuit resolves, citing his September 1 announcement and detailed Fazio plans.
Orleans Parish grand jury indicts Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill on 16 felony counts over letters threatening New Orleans officials with removal from office.
Supreme Court refuses to halt an $800 daily fine against journalist Catherine Herridge for shielding her source on FBI leaks about a scientist never charged.
Disability and education groups sue the Education Department and OMB for withholding nearly $2 billion in congressionally appropriated research funds set to expire.
Fourteen Minnesota protesters plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges as prosecutors say they need 90 extra days to process 20 terabytes of evidence.
A federal judge blocks Virginia’s ban on law enforcement masks hours before it was set to take effect, ruling states cannot regulate how federal agents operate.
Federal judges sentence seven more people for terrorism over the shooting at a Texas immigration detention center protest, a week after eight others got up to 100 years.
The Justice Department sues Virginia over its AR-15 sales ban and California over its Glock restrictions, one day after the Supreme Court took up AR-15 cases.
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor launches a review of more than 1,000 grand jury presentations after misconduct forced dismissal of charges against immigration crackdown protesters.
Former CIA Director Brennan sues the Trump administration to preserve records of its conspiracy investigation against him, saying officials branded him a criminal before charges.
A federal judge in Iowa holds an ICE officer in contempt for “astonishing” defiance of a court order, as a second judge warns the agency against treating detainees as “bargaining chips.”
The Justice Department sues Rhode Island and Massachusetts over tuition breaks for noncitizen students, bringing to twelve the states it accuses of discriminating against U.S. citizens.
A federal judge blocks Hegseth’s rule requiring press escorts inside the Pentagon, ruling the policy retaliatory and its security rationale “facially dubious,” another First Amendment loss for the Defense Department.
Trump secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for his White House ballroom, routing it through an office exempt from competitive bidding, the Washington Post reports.
A federal judge dismisses the Justice Department’s suit demanding New Hampshire’s full voter registration database, another court rejection of the administration’s roll-collection campaign.
The Supreme Court strikes down federal limits on coordinated spending between parties and their candidates in a 6-3 ruling, months before the midterms, in a case Vance launched as a 2022 Senate candidate.
A federal judge blocks a Trump rule that would strip student loan forgiveness from public service workers whose employers the administration deems to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, holding that children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary residents are citizens.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
A federal judge permanently bars Trump from freezing Gateway tunnel funds he cut to punish Democrats during the shutdown, after New York and New Jersey sued.
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
Arkansas Governor Sanders moves forward Wednesday with a ban on buying candy and soda with SNAP benefits, days after a federal judge struck down identical restrictions in five states.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that police need a warrant to obtain a phone’s location history, finding geofence tracking is a Fourth Amendment search.
The Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states may count absentee ballots arriving after election day if postmarked on time, upholding Mississippi’s grace period.
The Supreme Court declines to hear Trump’s appeal of the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Justice Gorsuch warns the ruling lets presidents weaponize agencies against disfavored businesses, citing the FCC chairman’s threat over Jimmy Kimmel.
The Supreme Court overturns a 90-year precedent in a 6-3 ruling, giving Trump and future presidents power to fire independent regulators at will.
Homeland Security Secretary Mullin tells migrants to return to Haiti and Syria days after the Supreme Court cleared their removal, even as the State Department warns Americans not to visit.
Trump says work on a public Washington golf course will begin September 1, defying a federal judge’s warning not to start without court approval.
A federal judge orders the Justice Department to justify dropping its fraud and bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, calling its explanation terse and conclusory.
A Virginia judge blocks the state’s assault weapons ban six days before it takes effect, citing Supreme Court gun rulings, as Attorney General Jay Jones vows to appeal.
A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with “building bridges,” its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds “no power.”
ICE agents enter a Syracuse polling place to confront a poll worker over an Instagram post naming the agent who killed protester Renee Good, demanding she delete it, but she refused.
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified notes from his memoir, a rare win in Trump’s campaign of prosecutions against critics.
A federal appeals court rejects Trump’s EPA bid to abandon a 2024 rule tightening soot limits, leaving the standard the agency says will prevent 4,500 deaths a year in place.
Washington settles with a man arrested for playing the “Imperial March” behind National Guard troops in 2025, while his claims against the Ohio guardsman proceed.
An Alaska judge restores retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan to the U.S. Senate ballot against Senator Dan S. Sullivan, finding no evidence the challenger meant to confuse voters.
A federal judge orders the Justice Department to release unredacted Epstein files by July 2 or justify every withholding, after an independent journalist sued over redactions she calls illegal.
The Supreme Court rules 7-2 that federal pesticide law bars consumers from suing Monsanto for failing to warn that Roundup may cause cancer, ending tens of thousands of state lawsuits.
The fired Stars and Stripes ombudsman sues the Pentagon, alleging she was dismissed days after a column criticizing its efforts to control the military paper’s editorial independence.
A federal judge blocks the Education Department’s rule narrowing which graduate degrees count as “professional,” restoring access to doubled federal loan limits for fields like nursing.
A Tennessee judge temporarily blocks the state from handing immigration enforcement the names of about 400 chronically ill undocumented children before a law forcing the disclosure takes effect.
