Recent Updates
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Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections
National Legal News 08/22/2025The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting...
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Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
Legal Compliance 08/21/2025A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...
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New lawsuit challenges Trump’s federal takeover of DC police department
U.S. Court Watch 08/17/2025The nation’s capital challenged President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration stepped up its crackdown on policing by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of t...
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Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
Law Journals 08/12/2025The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public profile.But like so much in President Donald Trum...
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Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants
National Legal News 08/10/2025An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make th...
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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s detention center
National Legal News 08/08/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates e...
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Mike Lindell celebrates victory after appeals court voids $5M award
U.S. Court Watch 07/29/2025A federal appeals court handed a victory Wednesday to Mike Lindell, ruling that the MyPillow founder doesn’t have to pay a $5 million award to a software engineer who disputed data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the 2020 U....
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Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back
Law Review 07/26/2025Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...
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Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions in third ruling
U.S. Court Watch 07/25/2025A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally, issuing the third court ruling blocking the birthright order nationwide since a key Supreme Court...
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Court hears arguments in Trump’s bid to erase hush money conviction
National Legal News 07/20/2025As President Donald Trump focuses on global trade deals and dispatching troops to aid his immigration crackdown, his lawyers are fighting to erase the hush money criminal conviction that punctuated his reelection campaign last year and made him the f...
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House Republicans grasp for response to demands for transparency in Epstein case
Law Review 07/17/2025House Republicans were grasping late Thursday to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, ultimately putting forward a resolution that carries no legal weight but nodded...
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Georgia appeals court upholds ruling saying election officials must certify results
Legal Compliance 07/08/2025A Georgia appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that said county election officials in the state must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had ruled in October that &ldqu...