34 entries in the ledger
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...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition on Aug. 28, 2026 asking the Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit ruling that barred the Pentagon from enforcing its ban on service by people with gender dysphoria. Sauer...
The Supreme Court on Aug. 24 paused a June injunction by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani that had barred the federal government from applying key parts of Trump's March mail-voting executive order in 23 states and...
Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 21 issued an administrative stay freezing a court order that would have required work on President Trump's White House ballroom to stop at midnight. The order set no new deadline, so...
With the ballroom's fate before the Supreme Court, the administration has put 250 workers on the site 20 hours a day, seven days a week, and told the justices in a court filing that the project is now two-thirds...
The Supreme Court on Monday, Aug. 17, declined to reconsider Trump’s appeal of the $5 million jury verdict finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and later defamed her. It was the second...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency application at the Supreme Court on Aug. 14 asking the justices to let construction of the White House ballroom continue. The filing follows an Aug. 7 decision by the...
The White House has restarted its effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Dan Scavino, who heads the Office of Presidential Personnel, wrote to Cook this week that there is sufficient reason to believe she...
On Aug. 6, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order, “Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” directing every executive department and agency to refuse to issue — and to refuse to...
In a Supreme Court filing made public on July 28, 2026, President Trump requested an additional month — until Sept. 9 — to seek review of an appeals court decision upholding the dismissal of his 2022 lawsuit accusing...