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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his state will sue after President Trump sent 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, according to Newsom.
President Trump authorized hundreds of National Guard troops for deployment to Chicago, the White House announced Saturday. The deployment came over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D).
Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the urging of President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice, aiming to eliminate some majority minority districts with a plan that’s now under scrutiny in federal court in El Paso.
A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty.
A Texas Democratic lawmaker told a federal court Friday that the state’s gerrymander was spurred by a U.S. Department of Justice letter urging Republicans to target districts with minority representatives.
A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.
A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, appeared skeptical of the Department of Justice’s defense of President Trump’s recent decision to send hundreds of troops to the City of Roses.
EL PASO, TEXAS — A Texas Democrat testified in federal court Thursday that Republican leadership used minority communities as pawns when they redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the request of President Donald Trump. State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) told the court the latest Texas redistricting process was a bad faith, secretive effort […]
A federal court began a hearing in a case here Wednesday to decide whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterms.
The ruling marks a departure by SCOTUS from other cases challenging Trump’s dismissal of leaders in independent agencies