Treasury moves to strip tax-exempt status from up to 18,000 schools that consider race in admissions, invoking a 1983 ruling against a college that banned interracial relationships.
Trump administration threatens to end federal artifact loans, grants and contracts to the Smithsonian “under current leadership,” escalating a year-long campaign over its slavery and diversity exhibits.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes at least 6 Army officers from a major general promotion list one day after the Army secretary quit, The Hill reports.
Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students’ transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Trump nominates acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao permanently, 4 months after Defense Secretary Hegseth fired his predecessor and one day after the Army secretary resigned.
Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to let it enforce its transgender troop ban on those already serving, calling an appeals court’s animus finding “gravely erroneous.”
EEOC votes 2-1 to propose ending federal workers’ guaranteed hearing before a judge on discrimination claims and banning class complaints, with comments due in 30 days.
Deloitte pays $21.5 million to settle DOJ claims its DEI programs defrauded the government, with an anti-affirmative action group taking $4.3 million as whistleblower.
State Department moves to sell a Kehinde Wiley painting of Dominicans it commissioned in 2013, after officials called the Obama portraitist’s work “woke.”
Trump administration bans Medicaid and CHIP from covering hormone treatment for transgender youth, effective immediately for some care despite doctors’ recommendations.
Florida AG Uthmeier threatens to charge WNBA players with assault after a flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham, though no WNBA team plays in Florida.
Federal judge holds DHS in contempt for slow-walking her order to turn over 800 immigration agents’ cellphone records from the Los Angeles raids.
Transgender federal workers sue OPM over canceled insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, arguing the same treatments remain covered for other employees.
Scouting America cuts jamboree spaces for gay youth, girls and scouts of color after Hegseth threatens its century-old Pentagon partnership.
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.
Education Department bars civil rights investigators from citing racial disparities in school discipline, advanced classes, or admissions as evidence of discrimination, skipping public comment.
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth’s new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
House votes to officially rename the Defense Department the Department of War, a change the Congressional Budget Office says could cost $125 million.
Justice Department investigates whether Chinese-funded Harvard scholarships restricted to foreign students illegally discriminate against Americans, its latest front against the university.
New York Times countersues the EEOC, saying the agency sued over a white editor’s promotion 8 days after Times reporting exposed its pro-Trump case targeting.
Faculty groups sue Texas Tech over classroom limits on race and gender they say ban teaching Plato, Dred Scott facts, and Holocaust history.
Disability and education groups sue the Education Department and OMB for withholding nearly $2 billion in congressionally appropriated research funds set to expire.
New Jersey lawmakers pass a bill criminalizing interference with reproductive and transgender healthcare and shielding providers from extradition, sending it to Governor Sherrill.
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 states may bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
North Carolina’s booth at Trump’s Great American State Fair pulls a Confederate version of the state flag after Governor Stein condemns it.
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.”
The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
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 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.
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.
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.
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
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.
A federal judge blocks most of Idaho’s law making transgender bathroom use a crime, two weeks before it would have taken effect.
Justice Department declares 50-year-old discrimination rules unconstitutional, making it harder for workers to sue employers whose hiring practices disproportionately harm minorities.
Defense Secretary Hegseth strikes at least seven Navy officers from a one-star promotion list chosen by senior admirals, leaving no women on the final slate.
Federal appeals court rules Hegseth’s transgender military ban unconstitutional and blocks the discharge of active-duty troops, calling it driven by animus.
Louisiana House votes 66-35 to cut majority-Black congressional districts from two to one, sending the map back to the Senate before a June 1 deadline.
Labor Department urges employees to report colleagues for past DEI work, citing a three-year window that reaches back before Trump took office.
DOJ sues UC over UCLA antisemitism response in third federal action targeting the university this year after February employee suit and January admissions complaint.
OMB orders agencies to report all federal spending on 49 nonprofits doing DEI, LGBTQ+, immigration, civil rights, environmental and humanitarian work, including funding under active litigation.
Labor Department appoints faith services director Wolfe to lead civil rights enforcement for up to 25% of U.S. workforce, an office set for elimination.
Louisiana House committee advances new congressional map eliminating second majority-Black district three weeks after Supreme Court’s Callais ruling, hiding voided ballot counts from disclosure.
House defeats Smithsonian women’s history museum bill 204-216 after Republicans add transgender exclusion and presidential site-relocation power.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs laws requiring in-person abortion pill prescriptions, parental consent for HPV vaccines, and shielding providers who deny care for religious or moral reasons.
Colorado Supreme Court orders Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for 800 minors after hospital cut access citing federal funding threats.
Trump administration raises refugee ceiling from 7,500 to 17,500 to admit more white South Africans while keeping other vulnerable populations excluded.
Tennessee’s lone Democratic congressman Steve Cohen retires after state Republicans split his majority-Black Memphis district three ways, the first such House retirement after Louisiana v. Callais.
