18 entries in the ledger
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...
The Pentagon on Aug. 21 moved to fire Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, retiring publisher Max D. Lederer Jr. and Middle East reporter Lara Korte. Slavin said he was dismissed for insubordination after...
A deputy assistant to the president emailed officials at the Energy, Transportation, Interior and Agriculture departments and the Office of Management and Budget at about 3 a.m. on Dec. 15, 2025, calling a “brainstorm...
Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Aug. 10, 2026 that he will sue to force the administration to restore the security clearance it revoked on Aug. 7 after claiming he disclosed sensitive information about...
Will Rosenzweig, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Miami, sued the Justice Department, Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones on Aug. 7, seeking his job back plus back pay and damages...
At a July 30, 2026 summary-judgment hearing in Anthropic's lawsuit against the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin told Justice Department lawyers that the government's record 'in some ways has gotten...
The New York Times filed a countersuit on July 10, 2026 in the Southern District of New York against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the agency's discrimination suit against the paper was...
The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll committed perjury in depositions connected to her civil lawsuits against Trump, with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago handling the...
FBI Director Kash Patel terminated a group of bureau employees on February 26, 2026 who had worked on the investigation into Trump's retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, including agents who took part in the...
On January 12, 2026, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit followed Hegseth's...