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President Trump signed an executive order commanding the Department of Education to be effectively dismantled and eventually shuttered, escalating his administration’s unprecedented assault on the federal government.
A federal judge in Maryland Thursday blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency officials from accessing sensitive data and systems at the Social Security Administration.
A federal judge denied a request from an independent nonprofit created by Congress to promote peace efforts around the world to stop an aggressive takeover by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
President Trump fired two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission in a direct challenge to a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling protecting independent agencies.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s attempted takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) likely violated the Constitution in multiple ways, a federal judge said.
Chief Justice Roberts issued a rare statement to push back against President Donald Trump and his allies using impeachment threats against federal judges.
The Trump administration for the first time acknowledged that federal agencies have reinstated almost 25,000 fired probationary employees in recent days, according to new court filings.
The Trump administration may have pushed the country closer to a constitutional crisis over the weekend by going ahead with deportations after judges had ordered that they be paused.
Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin joins Democracy Docket Founder Marc Elias to discuss the state of democracy, how Republicans are ceding their constitutional powers, and the one action every American should do to protest DOGE.
A federal judge denied the city of Baltimore’s request to temporarily halt the Trump administration’s effort to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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