Florida’s transportation department orders license plate cameras off state roads within 30 days citing “surveillance schemes,” as 7 cities and counties halt Flock networks.
Smithsonian puts the National Museum of the American Latino in a building it already owns, bypassing congressional approval after Trump’s budget stripped the museum’s funding.
River outfitters and Lipan Apache members win a court order halting all Homeland Security border barrier construction in Big Bend National Park until at least September 15.
Stars and Stripes’ editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
New Mexico sues the US and border wall contractors over unauthorized wells in protected water basins, demanding double repayment for stolen groundwater.
Judge blocks Ohio’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration rule before the October 5 midterm deadline, won by 2 civic groups who sued the state.
400 volunteers put 29,000 shielded immigration court records online, exposing arrest patterns a 2007 rule kept locked in courthouse kiosks.
Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s court-records search documents 152 DHS employees charged with sex crimes or violence against women and children, up from 59.
Appeals court rules Indiana cannot punish Planned Parenthood for telling minors where abortion is legal, calling referrals protected First Amendment speech.
Disney sues the FCC and Chair Carr to halt the early license review of all eight ABC stations, calling it retaliation for speech Trump dislikes.
Judge permanently blocks the FBI headquarters move within Washington, ruling the administration illegally diverted over $1 billion Congress appropriated for the Greenbelt, Maryland site.
22 states sue to block DHS from seizing 17 million commercial drivers’ records after the administration threatened $10 million in grant funding.
Judge expands to all 50 states her block on the Postal Service carrying out Trump’s mail voting limits, noting DOJ never defended the order’s constitutionality.
Federal judge orders CBP to free a Montana father of three detained without warrant in a case of mistaken identity and driven across four towns in 30 hours.
New Jersey subpoenas GEO Group in a civil rights investigation of Delaney Hall days after a third detainee death at the Newark immigration jail.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey signs a law barring ICE from schools, hospitals, and courthouses as ICE detains a second-term monthly record 46,000 people in July.
New Mexico sues DOJ and acting AG Blanche for withholding unredacted Epstein files that reference Zorro Ranch more than 13,000 times.
Kansas judge strikes down decades of abortion restrictions as “not even a close call,” hours before being sworn onto the state Supreme Court.
25 states sue to block Trump’s third round of worldwide tariffs, calling forced-labor claims a pretext to revive taxes the Supreme Court struck down.
More than 1,000 march against ICE in Fishers, Indiana, countering a secret-location rally keynoted by former Border Patrol commander Bovino.
Ninth Circuit becomes the fifth appeals court to strike Trump’s no-bail detention of immigrants arrested away from the border.
Federal judge permanently dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Jersey voters’ private data, the 17th district court to reject the administration’s requests.
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill refuses DOJ’s demand for personal data on 6,600 mistakenly registered noncitizens the administration has threatened to deport.
Judge orders ICE to free a witness to its fatal Houston shooting, ruling his detention without a hearing violates due process.
Appeals court blocks Trump’s order directing the Postal Service to refuse mail ballots to voters missing from federal citizenship lists, keeping it out of November’s elections.
Paramount agrees to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger for months after 12 states suing to block it won a restraining order.
DOJ withdraws subpoenas of three New York Times reporters and their family members after a judge threatens sanctions, though it vows to keep hunting their sources.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
Federal judge blocks ICE from deporting a witness to agents’ fatal shooting of a Houston man whose family disputes the government’s account.
Federal judge pauses Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. takeover for 14 days after 12 states sue, one month after Trump’s Justice Department approved it.
Milwaukee’s city attorney defies a DOJ ultimatum, vowing to prosecute masked federal agents under the city’s law enforcement identification ordinance.
Citizens Bank ends lending to ICE detention contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic after months of protests and $300 million in withdrawals.
Treasury forces out its top tax official after he warned a White House request would break the law barring presidents from directing IRS audits.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Mexico voter rolls with Social Security numbers, one of 14 such lawsuits yet to yield any data.
Hundreds rally at ICE’s Scarborough, Maine facility a day after agents killed Johan Sebastián Guerrero, with the state Senate president telling ICE to leave her state
Twelve states sue to block the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger the Justice Department approved over its own staff lawyers’ objections.
Hundreds march in Houston demanding ICE release footage of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing and free the 3 witnesses held in immigration detention.
Arizona organizers train 250 election observers to respond if National Guard troops or ICE agents show up at polling places during the midterms.
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.
Federal judge orders GEO Group to let Washington inspectors inside its Tacoma ICE facility after years of refusal and 3,500 uninvestigated complaints.
Faculty groups sue Texas Tech over classroom limits on race and gender they say ban teaching Plato, Dred Scott facts, and Holocaust history.
Judge quashes DOJ subpoena for personal data on thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers, calling it an arbitrary fishing expedition of staggering breadth.
Rochester man sues DHS alleging agents violated the First Amendment by tracking him to a hotel over an angry email criticizing ICE’s former director.
Federal judge blocks USPS rule refusing to deliver mail ballots in states that withhold voter lists, ruling it violates a 2021 NAACP settlement.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
