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Supreme Court allows Trump to gut DEI-linked NIH grants

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of...

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Zach Schonfeld

California Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to halt Newsom's redistricting push

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition filed by state Republican legislators seeking to halt Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) plan to...

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Zach Schonfeld

Airlines facing lawsuits over windowless 'window seats' 

United Airlines and Delta Air Lines were hit with class-action lawsuits Tuesday accusing them of charging passengers more for “window seats” that...

20.08.2025 3

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Zach Schonfeld

Judge tosses defamation lawsuit against Nancy Mace 

A federal judge on Wednesday tossed a defamation lawsuit against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) filed after she took to the House floor to accuse a man...

20.08.2025 3

The Hill

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DOJ backs away from appointing emergency DC police commissioner  

The Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to back away from appointing a commissioner to take command of Washington, D.C., police after a federal judge...

16.08.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Appeals panel declines Louisiana’s invitation to gut Voting Rights Act 

A federal appeals court panel declined Louisiana’s invitation to gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that has required the state to...

14.08.2025 2

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Zach Schonfeld

Illinois judge denies Paxton's request to help arrest Texas Democrats

An Illinois judge on Wednesday declined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) request to hold Texas Democrats who fled there in contempt. Paxton...

14.08.2025 100

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Zach Schonfeld

Texas GOP shadow battle emerges over Dem runaways 

A chasm has emerged between two Texas Republican Senate candidates in the legal fight against Democrats who fled the state to block a redistricting...

13.08.2025 20

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Judge mandates ICE improve Manhattan holding facility conditions 

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to improve conditions for migrants it detains in a federal...

13.08.2025 20

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What’s next as Trump takes over DC police, deploys National Guard 

President Trump on Monday announced he was putting the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard in...

12.08.2025 10

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Zach Schonfeld

Appeals court scraps Boasberg’s contempt order against Trump officials

A federal appeals court panel voted 2-1 Friday to scrap a judge’s probable cause finding to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt...

08.08.2025 2

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Zach Schonfeld

Fourth ruling blocks Trump birthright citizenship order nationwide

A federal judge in Maryland blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions nationwide late Thursday, the fourth such ruling following...

08.08.2025 10

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift limits on 'roving' LA-area immigration raids 

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to lift a judge’s limits on “roving” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area. A...

08.08.2025 10

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Judge temporarily suspends Alligator Alcatraz construction 

A federal judge on Thursday suspended construction at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center in Florida for two weeks as groups pursue...

08.08.2025 20

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Zach Schonfeld

4 key questions as Bondi orders Trump-Russia grand jury probe into Obama officials

The Trump administration is pressing ahead with a probe targeting Obama-era officials and could bring charges against any number of top former...

06.08.2025 10

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Zach Schonfeld

Ghislaine Maxwell urges judge to reject Trump bid to release grand jury transcripts 

Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, urged a federal judge Tuesday to reject the Trump administration’s bid...

05.08.2025 2

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Zach Schonfeld

GOP bullish on dismantling Voting Rights Act

Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot effort to broaden the...

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Trump’s tariffs back in court 

An appeals court may soon get in the way of President Trump’s trade agenda as his Aug. 1 deadline approaches to impose so-called 'reciprocal’...

30.07.2025 10

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Zach Schonfeld

Justice Department files formal complaint against Judge Boasberg 

The Justice Department filed a formal complaint on Monday, accusing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of misconduct and demanding that he be removed...

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Ghislaine Maxwell pleads with Supreme Court, Trump to intervene in criminal case

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, urged the Supreme Court on Monday to overturn her sex trafficking conviction as her...

28.07.2025 4

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Zach Schonfeld

Trump notches winning streak in Supreme Court emergency docket deluge 

President Trump is on a winning streak at the Supreme Court with conservative-majority justices giving the green light for the president to resume his...

26.07.2025 40

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Supreme Court halts ruling that limits Voting Rights Act enforcement 

The Supreme Court on Thursday halted an appeals ruling that prevents private groups from challenging election maps under the Voting Rights Act in...

24.07.2025 3

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Zach Schonfeld

Second court blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide after Supreme Court ruling 

A second court ruled that President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship still cannot go into effect anywhere in the country following...

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Supreme Court lets Trump fire federal product safety commissioners, liberal justices dissent

The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for President Trump to fire three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) — the second...

24.07.2025 30

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Zach Schonfeld

Judges pave way for Abrego Garcia's return to Maryland

The Trump administration must release Kilmar Abrego Garcia on his criminal charges in Tennessee, and immigration authorities must allow him to return...

23.07.2025 3

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Zach Schonfeld

Trade group asks Supreme Court to limit Mississippi’s social media law 

An internet trade group asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block Mississippi from enforcing its age-verification law against nine major social media...

23.07.2025 3

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Zach Schonfeld

Appeals court hands Mike Lindell win in fight over $5M election fraud contest

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Wednesday in his bid to avoid paying $5 million to a software developer, who...

23.07.2025 3

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Todd Blanche takes the helm of Ghislane Maxwell talks

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is phoning a friend as the administration deals with fallout over the Epstein files. President Trump’s former...

23.07.2025 30

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Judge reinstates credit union agency members fired by Trump 

A federal judge reinstated two Democratic appointees at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on Tuesday whom President Trump purported to...

23.07.2025 10

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Trump’s long-stalled suit against Bob Woodward dismissed 

A federal judge on Friday dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit against famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward for publishing audio tapes of...

19.07.2025 60

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Trump sues after Wall Street Journal’s Epstein story 

President Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for defamation on Friday after the newspaper published a story detailing an alleged letter Trump sent...

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court allows Trump to resume Education Department layoffs

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to resume efforts to dismantle the Department of Education in an apparent 6-3 vote along...

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ICE official says no plan yet on Abrego Garcia deportation  

A senior Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Thursday testified under oath that the agency has not yet decided where Kilmar Abrego...

11.07.2025 6

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Nearly 200 Democrats file legal brief challenging Trump’s emergency tariff powers

Nearly 200 Democratic lawmakers have filed a legal brief supporting a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers to impose...

10.07.2025 50

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court greenlights layoffs: What it means for federal employees

Federal agencies can resume implementing President Trump’s mass layoff directive following Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling, greenlighting agencies...

10.07.2025 50

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court allows Trump to resume mass layoffs; Jackson dissents from 'senseless' decision

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy,...

09.07.2025 60

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Judge temporarily blocks Planned Parenthood ‘defunding’ in Trump megabill

A federal judge on Monday granted Planned Parenthood’s request to temporarily halt Medicaid funding cuts to the group’s health centers under a...

08.07.2025 40

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Zach Schonfeld

Judge demands DOJ explain Abrego Garcia plans: 'It’s like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall’

A federal judge on Monday scrutinized the Trump administration’s plan for Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from criminal custody as soon...

07.07.2025 4

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court takes up transgender school athlete bans

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s school sports teams. ...

03.07.2025 30

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These Founders Just Opened a Brick-and-Mortar Front in the Streaming Wars

03.07.2025 4

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Judge blocks Trump’s asylum ban at southern border

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s asylum ban at the southern border, determining it ran afoul of immigration laws protecting...

02.07.2025 3

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Zach Schonfeld

Judge blocks Trump effort to dismantle African development agency

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump’s appointment of a new head of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), indefinitely...

02.07.2025 20

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Amy Coney Barrett lands back in MAGA’s good graces 

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is regaining her footing with the MAGA movement after falling from its graces. The most junior conservative...

01.07.2025 20

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court to hear Vance, GOP effort to strike down campaign finance provision 

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Vice President Vance and GOP committees’ bid to strike down federal limits on political parties’...

30.06.2025 40

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court refuses American Airlines’ bid to validate JetBlue alliance 

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away American Airlines’ bid to reverse a lower court ruling invalidating the carrier’s alliance with JetBlue in...

30.06.2025 9

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court declines fired teacher’s free speech challenge over anti-transgender TikToks

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Massachusetts teacher’s First Amendment challenge concerning her termination for making and reposting...

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Zach Schonfeld

Kavanaugh objects as Supreme Court turns away California pig welfare law challenge

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a second bite at the apple to review California’s law requiring pork sold in the state to come from pigs...

30.06.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Roberts rebuffs some criticism of Supreme Court decisions as 'venting' 

Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday said some public criticism of the Supreme Court’s work is “not terribly helpful,” dismissing it as...

28.06.2025 7

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Zach Schonfeld

Birthright citizenship plaintiffs make new push to block Trump’s order nationwide 

A group of plaintiffs challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions quickly made a new push to block it nationwide, following...

27.06.2025 7

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court allows Trump to partially enforce birthright citizenship order 

The Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines allowed President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to...

27.06.2025 200

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