Recent Updates
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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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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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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 to hear appeal from Chevron in landmark Louisiana coastal damage lawsuits
U.S. Court Watch 06/23/2025The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear an appeal from Chevron, Exxon and other oil and gas companies that lawsuits seeking compensation for coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana should be heard in federal court.The com...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans
U.S. Court Watch 05/19/2025The Supreme Court on Friday barred the Trump administration from quickly resuming deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law enacted when the nation was just a few years old.Over two dissenting votes, the justices acted on an emerg...
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The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate
U.S. Court Watch 04/20/2025For Democrats, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is about fundamental American ideals — due process, following court orders, preventing government overreach. For the Trump administration and Republicans, it’s about foreigners and gang threats...
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to delay the start of the TikTok ban
U.S. Court Watch 12/28/2024President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a "political resolution" to the issue.After President Biden signed a law banning TikTok unless...
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Judge blocks Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms
U.S. Court Watch 11/23/2024Louisiana’s plan to make all of the state’s public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a s...
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High court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race
U.S. Court Watch 11/19/2024Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, ordering counties not to count mail-in ballots that...
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Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump’s election case after his presidential win
U.S. Court Watch 11/08/2024The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines Friday while prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the Republican’s presidential vi...
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Republicans take Senate majority and eye unified power with Trump
U.S. Court Watch 11/07/2024Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate and are fighting to keep their majority in the U.S. House, which would produce a full sweep of GOP power in Congress alongside President-elect Donald Trump in the White House.A unified Republican grip...
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Biden unveils a proposal to establish term limits for the Supreme Court
U.S. Court Watch 07/30/2024President Joe Biden has unveiled a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He’s also pressing lawmakers to rat...