Court defiance, separation of powers, elections, clemency and challenges to constitutional limits.
Nine fired FBI employees, including agents and analysts with counterintelligence experience, sued FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Todd Blanche, the FBI and the Justice Department on Oct. 15. The suit says they...
The League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) sued DHS on Oct. 15 in federal court in Washington, alleging the department ran a...
US District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan granted a preliminary injunction on Oct. 13 blocking the Trump administration from penalizing two advocacy groups, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and the Taxpayer...
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt a $20 million DHS-funded ad campaign on Oct. 11, 2026, after a coalition led by Common Cause sued. The order took effect at 6:46...
U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon issued a temporary restraining order the night of Oct. 11, 2026, ordering the Trump administration to cancel remaining taxpayer-funded TV ads and barring officials from entering...
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled on October 9, 2026, that the Justice Department acted unlawfully when it demanded unredacted voter rolls from nearly all 50 states and cross-checked them against the SAVE...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will make public the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. The...
Attorneys for former Olympic canoeist David Hearn sent a 21-page letter on October 6, 2026 asking Justice and Interior Department inspectors general to investigate his prosecution over damage to the Lincoln Memorial...
U.S. District Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in the Eastern District of New York, ruled October 5, 2026, that ICE agents falsified records to cover up the wrongful May 6 arrest of Angel Jesus Almonte in the Bronx...
U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden in New Jersey ruled October 2, 2026, that a Justice Department lawsuit accusing pro-Palestinian protesters of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act did not...