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Supreme Court stiffs Trump, punts on firing whistleblower agency head 

The Supreme Court stiffed President Trump in his administration’s first high court appeal by punting Friday on a request to greenlight the firing...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

NYC sues Trump after FEMA claws back $80 million migrant housing grant

New York City sued President Trump on Friday after his administration clawed back $80 million sent to the city for housing migrants. Citing concerns...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Eric Adams's trial adjourned indefinitely as judge weighs dropping charges

The federal judge overseeing New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) criminal case indefinitely delayed his April trial as he considers a...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge rules Trump administration can move ahead on mass government layoffs

A federal judge Thursday refused a group of government employee unions’ request to block the Trump administration from moving ahead with plans to...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Unions sue over Trump admin efforts to fire probationary federal employees 

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Appeals court won’t immediately revive Trump’s birthright citizenship order 

A federal appeals court Wednesday evening declined the Trump administration’s request to partially revive the president’s executive order...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Catholic bishops sue over freeze in refugee resettlement funding 

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Tuesday sued to challenge the Trump administration's moves to block funding for refugee...

19.02.2025 50

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge sets hearing for Adams, DOJ to explain dismissal of charges 

The federal judge overseeing New York City Mayor Eric Adams's (D) criminal case set a Wednesday hearing to discuss the Justice Department’s effort...

18.02.2025 8

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Groups file lawsuit challenging DOGE access at IRS 

A coalition of unions, tax and small business groups sued late Monday to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing personal...

18.02.2025 7

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge refuses to block DOGE’s access to student borrower data 

A federal judge Monday evening declined to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from gaining access to Education Department...

18.02.2025 80

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to greenlight whistleblower office firing

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to greenlight President Trump’s firing of the head of a federal whistleblower protection office,...

17.02.2025 100

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge blocks Trump’s gender-affirming care executive orders nationwide

BALTIMORE — A federal judge Thursday blocked parts of two executive orders issued by President Trump that collectively seek to restrict...

14.02.2025 100

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Unions sue over Trump’s DOGE order that plans 'large-scale' government layoffs 

A coalition of unions representing federal employees sued Wednesday over President Trump’s executive order that lays the groundwork for mass layoffs...

13.02.2025 20

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge orders health agencies to restore data scrubbed by Trump administration 

A judge ordered federal health agencies Tuesday to restore online datasets taken down after President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting the...

11.02.2025 3

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

DOJ asks court to lift Treasury order that limits DOGE access

President Trump’s Justice Department moved Sunday evening to lift a judge’s expansive ruling that prevents non-civil servants from accessing the...

10.02.2025 30

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge blocks Musk, DOGE from accessing Treasury payment systems  

A federal judge in an overnight ruling Saturday blocked Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury...

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The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge won’t block DOGE from accessing Labor Department systems 

A federal judge Friday evening refused to block the Labor Department from giving Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to...

08.02.2025 50

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump's DOJ drops challenge to gender-affirming care bans but urges Supreme Court to issue decision

President Trump’s Justice Department on Friday abandoned the Biden administration’s Supreme Court challenge to gender-affirming care bans for...

08.02.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Public Citizen steps up fight against DOGE access with Education Department lawsuit 

The University of California student government sued Friday to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from gaining access to...

07.02.2025 3

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Second lawsuit filed challenging Trump’s transgender troops ban 

A second group of transgender service members sued President Trump on Thursday over his executive order barring transgender people from serving...

07.02.2025 20

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge rails against Trump in blocking birthright executive order for second time

A second federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship, harshly condemning the...

06.02.2025 2

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Government unions sue over DOGE access to Labor Department 

The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions sued Wednesday over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency...

06.02.2025 70

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge blocks Trump’s order forcing incarcerated transgender women to live in male facilities 

A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male...

05.02.2025 80

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge extends block on Trump’s federal funding freeze 

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., extended a block on President Trump’s widespread federal funding pause amid concerns the administration was...

04.02.2025 50

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

18 House GOP lawmakers back Trump’s birthright citizenship order in court 

A contingent of House Judiciary Committee Republicans backed President Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship, filing a brief Monday in a...

04.02.2025 40

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Second judge prepares to block Trump’s federal grant freeze 

A second federal judge signaled she will block the Trump administration from implementing an across-the-board pause on federal grants later Monday. ...

03.02.2025 1

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge formally blocks Trump’s federal aid freeze 

A federal judge blocked President Trump’s federal aid freeze Friday, finding that Democratic state attorneys general who sued are likely to prevail...

01.02.2025 80

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Appeals court rules federal handgun sale ban for 18- to 20-year-olds is unconstitutional

A federal appeals court ruled that a federal law banning firearms stores from selling handguns to adults between 18 years old and 20 years old is...

31.01.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge signals toward granting Dem challenge to OMB freeze after order rescinded 

A federal judge said Wednesday he plans to grant a group of Democratic attorneys general's request to block President Trump’s freeze on federal aid,...

30.01.2025 70

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid 

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid minutes before it was set to go into effect late Tuesday afternoon....

29.01.2025 100

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court will review FBI’s immunity in lawsuit over mistaken house raid 

The Supreme Court said Monday it will review whether the FBI should have immunity in a lawsuit brought by a family whose Atlanta home was mistakenly...

28.01.2025 6

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Doug Emhoff returns to career as private attorney

Former second gentleman Doug Emhoff is returning to his career as a private attorney after his wife, former Vice President Kamala Harris, lost the...

27.01.2025 30

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

The Movies the Oscars Are Too Scared to Celebrate

Horror features many of today’s most exciting filmmakers and exemplifies our anxious moment. Yet the Academy continues to shut it out.

25.01.2025 100

The New York Times

Zach Schonfeld

Trump's DOJ asks Supreme Court to freeze cases on student debt, environment

President Trump’s Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to freeze four pending cases implicating the environment or student debt as...

25.01.2025 100

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court takes up Oklahoma effort to create nation's first public religious charter school

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reviving an effort to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. In what is...

25.01.2025 50

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order met with blitz of litigation 

A federal judge's ruling blocking President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is just the beginning of a blitz of...

24.01.2025 40

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

ACLU sues over Trump’s push to broaden expedited deportations 

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Wednesday over President Trump’s expansion of a program that allows immigration officials to carry...

23.01.2025 5

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the app, teeing up a ban set to...

17.01.2025 100

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court decision on TikTok ban could come Friday

The Supreme Court has signaled it will release at least one opinion Friday, a hastily scheduled announcement that comes as TikTok’s divest-or-ban...

17.01.2025 20

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

TikTok ban: Here are the Supreme Court's options

All eyes are on the Supreme Court this week as the justices mull whether to step in and block a potential TikTok ban from going into effect Sunday. ...

15.01.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump asks full appeals court to review E. Jean Carroll jury verdict 

President-elect Trump on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a jury’s verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming...

14.01.2025 30

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court turns away challenge to Maryland handgun license regime 

The Supreme Court let stand Maryland’s handgun licensing regime, turning away a long-running Second Amendment challenge in a brief order issued...

13.01.2025 2

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court to hear ObamaCare no-cost preventive care dispute

The Supreme Court will hear a case determining the fate of free preventive services under the Affordable Care Act. In a brief order issued Friday,...

11.01.2025 30

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

TikTok gets frosty reception at Supreme Court in fight to stave off ban

TikTok received a frosty reception in its fight to save the platform at the Supreme Court, which during oral arguments Friday expressed sympathy with...

10.01.2025 4

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

TikTok’s future hangs in balance at Friday’s Supreme Court arguments 

TikTok’s future will hang in the balance Friday when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over a federal law that could ban the video-sharing...

10.01.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump declines to criticize Supreme Court after justices greenlight sentencing  

President-elect Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision allowing his hush money criminal case sentencing to move forward by not criticizing...

10.01.2025 10

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court refuses Trump’s request to block Friday’s criminal sentencing 

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Thursday refused President-elect Trump’s request to halt his criminal sentencing, now just hours away,...

10.01.2025 200

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump makes final stand in criminal cases as inauguration nears 

President-elect Trump is making a final stand in his criminal cases as his White House return approaches, hoping to diminish what is left of his...

09.01.2025 3

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Trump asks Supreme Court to block New York criminal sentencing 

President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing on Friday on 34 New York felony counts of falsifying business records....

08.01.2025 8

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld

Judiciary won’t refer Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson to DOJ over ethics 

The federal judiciary’s policymaking body will not refer allegations that Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson violated federal...

03.01.2025 20

The Hill

Zach Schonfeld