10 entries in the ledger
A unanimous three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit on Aug. 18, 2026 left in place a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security from applying its 2025 enforcement-location policy to the...
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026 that Sigal Chattah, the Trump administration's initial pick to run the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada, was unlawfully appointed to lead federal prosecutions there...
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the Justice Department and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in federal court in the District of Columbia on Aug. 5, 2026, seeking unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative...
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Aug. 4, 2026, granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the group. Juries...
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Aug. 4, 2026, that the Environmental Protection Agency may not terminate or claw back roughly $20 billion in unspent clean-energy grants awarded to nonprofit...
U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson on Aug. 3, 2026, temporarily blocked a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy that barred the League of Women Voters and other nonpartisan groups from registering new citizens...
On July 7, 2026, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II in Pensacola, Florida, ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore bulk-upload and Social Security number search features of the SAVE...
A federal judge ruled that the administration's mass dismissal of inspectors general in January violated statutory notice requirements that Congress had established to protect the independence of these oversight...
After the Supreme Court limited the availability of universal (nationwide) injunctions without ruling on the underlying birthright-citizenship question, a federal judge certified a class of affected children and again...
A federal judge ruled that the administration could not use the Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelan nationals under the theory the government had advanced, finding that the alleged criminal activity cited by officials...