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Massachusetts
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 73 stories to Massachusetts since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Massachusetts.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Massachusetts
10 storiesLouisiana, Arkansas and Alabama sue California, New York and Massachusetts at the Supreme Court to void shield laws protecting providers who mail abortion pills.
Separate suit names 30 providers
Trump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
Second appeal since Thursday, first withdrawn
Justice Department appeals a judge's 14-day block on Postal Service rules letting it withhold mail ballots, one day after she found compliance "practically impossible" by November.
North Carolina mails ballots September 4
24 states and DC sue to block the Postal Service mail-ballot rule 2 days after their Supreme Court loss, calling the required overhaul Herculean.
Ballot envelopes redesigned in weeks
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
80-hour monthly work mandate starts January
Justice Department sues Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington for refusing to issue undercover license plates to ICE agents.
Immigration is civil, not criminal
Federal judge accuses DHS of dangerous misconduct for hiding Dominican murder warrant and issuing inflammatory press release attacking her.
DHS press release branded judge "activist"
Education Department probes Smith College for admitting trans women, citing Title IX single-sex exception.
First admissions case beyond sports
Judge rules Harvard scientist's visa was unlawfully canceled after she spent a year in immigration detention over biological samples from her cancer research.
Stopped at Boston Logan carrying lab materials
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
Weldon Amendment used as legal basis
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesSeven 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.
Move follows repeated administration court losses
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
Federal judge rules Trump's policy of deporting immigrants to countries they have no connection to is illegal, ordering notice and the chance to challenge removals before they happen.
$40M spent deporting 300 to third countries
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