Court defiance, separation of powers, elections, clemency and challenges to constitutional limits.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida issued a grand jury subpoena requiring Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor and longtime adviser to former FBI Director James...
The California Legislature passed a bill on Aug. 31 barring law enforcement from using electric-shock gloves through 2030, weeks after reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to spend up to $20 million...
The Supreme Court on Aug. 31, 2026 granted the Trump administration's emergency request and blocked lower-court orders that had paused aboveground construction of the president's new White House ballroom. The unsigned...
The administration filed a notice of appeal Friday challenging U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's decision blocking implementation of Trump's mail-voting executive order for two weeks. The order would let the Postal...
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Aug. 28, 2026 denied President Trump's latest bid to move his New York criminal conviction out of state court, the third time he has rejected the request. "The grounds for a...
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland declined on Aug. 28 to issue a temporary restraining order against Trump's Aug. 6 executive order narrowing birthright citizenship, saying she could not block...
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco on Aug. 27 permanently barred the administration from enforcing the measures cutting Anthropic off from the federal government. In a 59-page opinion she voided Defense...
At an Aug. 27 hearing on Rep. Joyce Beatty's emergency motion, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper pressed Justice Department lawyer Brantley Mayers on why the Kennedy Center board had to act by Sept. 8, asking "What...
A federal judge on Aug. 26 lifted the injunction that had blocked the most contested piece of Trump's March 2026 mail-voting executive order - using the Postal Service as the primary enforcer of mail-voter eligibility -...
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled Tuesday that the administration violated her nationwide preliminary injunction when the Postal Service finalized its mail-ballot rule. In a five-page order she wrote that...