A federal judge blocks the Postal Service from refusing to mail ballots in states that won’t hand the federal government their voter rolls, one day after the postmaster general defended the plan to senators.
The Supreme Court clears the way for Trump to physically block migrants at the border from setting foot on U.S. soil and seeking asylum.
The Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii’s law requiring permission before carrying firearms into stores and other businesses open to the public.
North Carolina’s attorney general reaches a $7 million settlement barring a major landlord from algorithmic rent-setting, the third such deal in a case prosecutors say inflated rents statewide.
A federal judge throws out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against four New Jersey sanctuary cities, ruling it had no standing because state law already bars the cooperation it sought to end.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to explain a tarp covering the Kennedy Center façade where Trump’s name was stripped, which a board member calls petty defiance.
Chemours will pay $450 million to settle a decade of illegal “forever chemical” discharges into three rivers, the first federal PFAS-manufacturer deal, which an affected state calls inadequate.
A federal judge permanently blocks key parts of Trump’s election order, including a proof-of-citizenship requirement to vote, ruling the president has no constitutional power over elections.
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth’s names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that a Rastafarian inmate cannot sue the Louisiana officials who shaved his head despite the religious-rights court order he showed them.
A federal judge throws out the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Maryland’s confidential voter database, the ninth court to reject the administration’s bid for state voter rolls.
A federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses nationwide, ruling the agency skipped required rulemaking and showed ‘a complete lack of decision-making.’
Eight activists get up to 100 years for a Texas ICE-facility attack that wounded a police officer, the first sentences under Trump’s antifa terrorism designation.
The Supreme Court refuses to let a Texas death row inmate present intellectual-disability evidence that could bar his execution, though state prosecutors backed his appeal.
A federal judge refuses to disqualify acting Attorney General Blanche and U.S. Attorney Pirro from prosecuting the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect, despite their statements that they could have been victims.
A one-year Republican ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood expires July 5 with no extension, after the Senate parliamentarian capped it at one year and the GOP concedes it lacks the votes.
Federal judge rules Trump’s national voter database illegal and orders it dismantled, finding agencies knew it violated privacy law but built it anyway.
Federal judge strikes down Agriculture Department waivers that let 22 states bar SNAP recipients from buying soda and candy, finding the agency rewrote the legal definition of food.
Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas targeting Governor Walz and other Minnesota leaders, ruling the demands were an unconstitutional effort to coerce immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after it warned Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
The Justice Department refuses a judge’s order to swear under oath that Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, calling the demand a separation-of-powers violation.
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.
