23 entries in the ledger
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 Noel Wise ruled on Aug. 28, 2026 that the administration's use of the Immigration and Nationality Act to revoke international students' visas over pro-Palestinian activism violated the First and Fifth...
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 Myong Joun in Boston blocked HUD on Aug. 26 from restructuring the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, ruling the agency failed to give a reasoned explanation for sweeping changes to a grant program...
In an Aug. 25 court filing, Brantley Mayers, a senior official in the Justice Department's Civil Division, argued that the Kennedy Center faces a "death spiral" without Trump's renovation push and would "deteriorate...
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...
Three former officials told The Washington Post that the White House already contains a subterranean secure facility of the kind the administration says the East Wing project is needed to provide. Two said it can...