Federal Judge Extends Block on DOGE’s Access to Social Security Data
A federal judge Thursday extended restrictions on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing Americans’ personal data held by the Social Security Administration.
Trump Accountability
Federal Judges Continue to Denounce Trump For Wrongfully Removed Maryland Man
A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again unanimously rejected a Trump administration request to overturn a lower-court order requiring it to secure the freedom of a Maryland man it erroneously sent to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
Key Federal Elections Agency Moving Forward With Trump’s Anti-Voting Order
An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections.
Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Admin In Contempt Over Alien Enemies Act Removals
A federal judge Wednesday said he’d found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for showing “a willful disregard” toward his March 15 orders requiring it return to the U.S. the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th century wartime law.
Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Trump Admin Refuses to Return Man It Wrongly Sent to Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration said Monday the U.S. government will not return a Maryland resident it erroneously sent to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
SCOTUS Orders Trump Administration to “Facilitate” Return of Wrongly Deported Man
The Trump administration is ordered to lay out steps for bringing Kilmer Abrego García back to the U.S.
Supreme Court Halts Court Order Reinstating Federal Board Members Fired By Trump
Chief Justice John Roberts Wednesday stayed an appeals court’s order requiring President Donald Trump to reinstate two members of independent federal agencies who were wrongfully dismissed earlier this year.
Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump to Fire Over 25K Probationary Employees
A federal appeals court panel cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire over 25,000 probationary federal workers who were targeted in mass firings earlier this year.
Supreme Court Pauses Order Requiring Trump to Reinstate Thousands of Federal Workers
The Supreme Court Tuesday paused a lower-court court order that reinstated thousands of probationary federal workers fired by the Trump administration earlier this year.
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime Law
The Supreme Court in a 5–4 vote Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to vacate a lower-court ruling preventing it from deporting people using an 18th century wartime law.