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.
A nonprofit relaunches the government’s deleted climate.gov, restoring 15 years of data, research, and the National Climate Assessment the Trump administration took down.
Federal judge rules Trump’s national voter database illegal and orders it dismantled, finding agencies knew it violated privacy law but built it anyway.
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 National Science Foundation reverses its dismantling of a $386 million ocean monitoring network after a bipartisan revolt and a unanimous Senate bill led by Merkley and Murkowski.
Virginia defends its July 1 bans on masked federal agents and local ICE cooperation as the Justice Department sues to overturn them.
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.
No Kings stages a First Amendment concert in New York countering Trump’s 80th-birthday UFC fight card in Washington.
The Kennedy Center removes Trump’s name from its façade after losing two court bids to keep it past Saturday’s deadline.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery and climate it stripped from national parks, ruling the removals unlawful censorship.
Federal magistrate acquits former New York City comptroller Brad Lander of obstruction from his arrest while trying to inspect ICE holding rooms, finding his testimony credible.
Federal judge rules Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions cruel and unusual two days before a scheduled execution, finding the inmate’s firing squad alternative feasible.
Salt Lake City and county sue to stop ICE from turning an 830,000-square-foot warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center.
Activists move their “Trump and Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released DOJ files, to downtown Washington for the president’s birthday.
Former Trump campaigner Rich Logis puts up a Nashville billboard advertising his LeavingMAGA.org organization for wavering Trump supporters.
ICE releases Guatemalan asylum seeker Andrea Pedro-Francisco after four months without surgery for a dangerous ovarian cyst, following a senator’s call to DHS.
House votes 215 to 208 to halt the Iran war, but the measure still needs the Senate and may not legally bind Trump.
Seven states sue to block the administration’s $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
Detainees at New Jersey’s largest ICE jail reach day 10 of a hunger strike demanding freedom, as Jeffries tours the facility and calls for it to be shut down.
Civil rights groups sue ICE over conditions at the country’s largest immigration detention camp, in Texas, where three detainees have died and inspectors logged nearly 50 violations.
Federal judge bars Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and blocks its two-year closure, ruling only Congress can rename it.
Tom Morello announces a ‘Power to the People’ protest festival on October 3 near Washington, with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, and Dave Matthews headlining.
Thirty-five former judges ask court to reopen Trump’s IRS case and investigate his settlement as fraud on the court.
South Carolina Senate kills Trump-pushed redistricting for the year as Republicans flip votes hours after early voting begins.
Federal judge dismisses human smuggling indictment against wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia as “vindictive and selective,” citing DOJ retaliation for his successful return.
Trump-appointed U.S. attorney drops Chicago immigration protest case with prejudice after judge scrutinizes prosecutor meeting with grand juror outside proceedings.
Two Jan. 6 officers sue Trump administration to block $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, citing 14th Amendment ban on paying insurrection debts.
Colorado Supreme Court orders Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for 800 minors after hospital cut access citing federal funding threats.
Hennepin County charges ICE officer Christian Castro with four felony assault counts for firing through Minneapolis home’s front door during Jan. 14 chase.
5,000 rally in Montgomery and faith leaders march Edmund Pettus Bridge against southern Republican redistricting after Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling.
Texas Supreme Court rejects Gov. Abbott’s bid to oust House Democratic leader Gene Wu and 12 others over August redistricting quorum break.
Federal judge in Rhode Island quashes DOJ subpoena demanding identities and complete medical records of every minor treated for gender dysphoria at Rhode Island Hospital since 2020.
USDA employees sue Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins over ‘escalating’ Christian religious messaging to 100,000 staff, alleging First Amendment and Administrative Procedure Act violations.
