U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone issued a temporary injunction on October 2, 2026, halting construction of a planned 30-foot steel wall and related infrastructure through the Big Bend region, part of the...
U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali ruled on September 28, 2026, that FEMA could not condition roughly $1 billion a year in terrorism-preparedness grants on states "exploring a transition to paper ballots or verifying...
U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV blocked a DHS rule capping F-1 student and J-1 exchange visas at four years and cutting journalist I visas to 240 days, issuing a preliminary injunction the night of Sept. 14...
Twenty-two Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., plus a separate coalition of cities and counties including New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, filed lawsuits Sept. 14, 2026, in the Southern District...
On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a district court injunction blocking the IRS from sharing taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The panel found a procedure...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis ordered the Trump administration on Sept. 4, 2026, to disclose who designed the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund and how it was structured, granting part of a discovery motion in...
On September 4, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined, 2-1, to lift a lower-court order barring the government from using the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic...
On September 4, 2026, hours after Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction blocking mandatory enforcement of the Postal Service's final mail-ballot rule through the November election, the...
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction on September 4 barring the Postal Service from requiring states to comply with its new mail-ballot rule for the November 3 midterms. The rule, issued...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on X on September 3 that the administration was preparing to begin excavation work for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck over the next two-week period...