Federal Courts
Federal judge says Trump can’t build White House ballroom without Congress
Since President Donald Trump announced his plan to replace the East Wing of the White House with an enormous ballroom last July, critics have raised several architectural objections. Among other things, they have complained…
Did the Supreme Court abolish nationwide injunctions?
You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court killed off the practice of nationwide injunctions, the practice where a federal judge stops a federal policy from going into effect everywhere in the country while a single…
A jury approves damages after 2 Texas cops snatched a supposedly ‘abandoned’ girl from her home
More than seven years after two Texas cops snatched a teenaged girl they erroneously claimed had been "abandoned," a federal jury has concluded that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights by unreasonably…
Minnesota considers workarounds to qualified immunity for feds
Bills moving through the Minnesota Legislature this session would create a state right to sue law enforcement officers and other government officials for constitutional violations. The legislation comes amid allegations of…
A lawsuit settlement highlights Trump’s hypocrisy on government meddling with social media
On Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) announced that it had reached a settlement in Missouri v. Biden, a First Amendment lawsuit challenging the federal government's attempts to suppress…
DOJ seeks to drop charges against officers in Breonna Taylor warrant case
Louisville, Kentucky, Detective Joshua Jaynes lied when he applied for the March 2020 warrant that resulted in Breonna Taylor's death. Then he lied about his lies. Sgt. Kyle Meany, the supervisor who approved the warrant…
ICE insists Liberia is the only place it can deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia
One year after it improperly arrested and deported a Salvadoran man, the Trump administration is in court trying to remove him again—not to his home country, this time, but to a completely separate continent. It's not…
Trump thinks judges should be independent—as long as they side with him
This week President Donald Trump rehashed his complaints about federal judges who rule against him, laying into the justices who rejected his "emergency" tariffs last month and lower courts that have hindered him in…
Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.’s arbitrary changes to childhood vaccine policy
Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Monday struck down several actions undertaken by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ruling them illegitimate…
Do noncitizens have First Amendment rights?
The First Amendment states that the government "shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme…
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