Federal appeals court keeps South Dakota from enforcing a law that can jail people for advertising abortion pills while a free speech suit proceeds.
Family of Renee Good, killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, sues the US, the agent and Trump officials, alleging a civil-rights conspiracy.
Federal judge orders Bureau of Prisons to restore its union contract covering 30,000 prison workers, a year after its director called bargaining a “roadblock.”
Federal judge voids Justice Department conditions tying domestic violence and sexual assault grants to Trump’s immigration, DEI and gender identity policies.
Federal judge voids FEMA rule withholding 20% of states’ counterterrorism funds unless they plan a switch to hand-marked paper ballots and verify voters’ citizenship.
Federal appeals court keeps blocking Tennessee law making it a crime to tell minors about legal out-of-state abortions, ruling it violates the First Amendment.
California Supreme Court orders Riverside County Sheriff Bianco, a former Republican candidate for governor, to return 650,000 ballots he illegally seized.
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN’s place.
Federal judge orders EPA to reinstate $7 billion in Solar for All grants for 900,000 lower-income households, ruling Trump’s budget law cannot cancel existing grants.
US Institute of Peace and its ousted board ask appeals court to block Trump from carving his name into their building, a contractor already chosen.
Federal judge finds ICE likely violated the First Amendment when agents tracked a Rochester man to three locations over a scathing email calling its director a Nazi.
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump’s mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Federal judge rules DHS broke the law with its plan to halve FEMA’s 23,000-person workforce over FEMA’s own objections, calling the cut “pulled from thin air.”
Federal judge halts “favorite Trump initiative” essay question on federal job applications after 16 months, finding it likely violates applicants’ First Amendment rights.
Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s Trump-encouraged congressional map for November as the state’s high court holds its election chief in contempt for telling counties to use it.
Nearly 2 dozen states sue to void 3 Trump rules weakening the Endangered Species Act, including one that stops counting habitat destruction as harm.
Federal judge permanently bars West Point from making professors seek approval to publish or speak, a rule adopted a month after Trump’s “un-American” ideas order.
New York Mayor Mamdani creates an Office of Worker Power and orders city agencies to hunt labor violations without waiting for complaints, citing weakened federal enforcement.
Delaware Gov. Meyer signs 3 bills barring civil immigration arrests at state courthouses and blocking state and local police from helping ICE at schools, churches and hospitals.
Judge Tanya Chutkan orders 48 hours notice before any work beyond artifact surveys at the site of Trump’s 250-foot arch, a day after Interior Secretary Burgum said excavation starts within 2 weeks.
Arlington, Virginia, police open an investigation of ICE agents accused of a beating that left a man with a brain hemorrhage, as Homeland Security calls it “necessary force.”
Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocks the Trump-backed congressional map for November, ruling it “has never been the law” until voters decide a 305,000-signature referendum.
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee votes 19-0 to subpoena Oracle’s Larry Ellison after the VA nearly tripled Oracle’s $10 billion health records contract it once vowed to finish without overruns.
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.
