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A federal judge on Monday blocked a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications imposed by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin...
A majority on a three-judge appeals court panel appeared sympathetic to a challenge to President Trump’s White House ballroom project at oral...
The Trump administration on Friday is set to make its case before a federal appeals court on why it believes it has authority to build the White House...
The Supreme Court rejected Verizon and AT&T’s constitutional challenge to massive fines imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an...
Pressure is growing on a federal judge after an investigation discovered she lied about being in an extramarital affair with a high-ranking police...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Alabama Republicans to remove the state’s second majority-Black congressional district for the...
An appeals court threw out a lawsuit brought by 22 young people that challenged President Trump’s executive orders setting federal energy policy,...
A divided federal appeals court panel ruled Monday that the Trump administration is unconstitutionally expelling troops actively serving because they...
A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Park Service (NPS) on Monday from revoking a permit for a 24/7 anti-Trump protest in the nation’s...
A federal judge on Friday blocked the rebranding of Kennedy Center to include President Trump’s name and ruled that officials improperly voted to...
A federal judge temporarily blocked the government from doling out money from President Trump’s new “anti-weaponization” fund on Friday. U.S....
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the victim of a swatting call Wednesday night at her Virginia home, according to local police. Police...
Alabama asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to clear the way for its congressional map that would remove the state’s second majority-Black district...
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Trump-era restrictions that prevent faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (USMA) from speaking to...
The American Bar Association (ABA) is moving closer to rolling back a key diversity initiative in an effort to hang on as the nation’s law school...
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away the NFL's bid to stop a coach’s racial discrimination lawsuit from proceeding in open court, a battle that...
A three-judge panel blocked Alabama Republicans’ congressional map on Tuesday that would’ve given the party a potential pickup opportunity in the...
A federal judge on Friday dismissed Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, launched after she threatened to sue the author for...
A court showdown will unfold Friday to determine the fate of Alabama’s congressional map for the midterms. Alabama Republicans want to restore a map...
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided 8-1 against four major cruise lines in their bid to stave off a $440 million judgment for using docks at the Port...
The Trump administration sued Minnesota on Tuesday over its new prediction market ban, contending it’s preempted by federal law. Minnesota Gov. Tim...
The Supreme Court refused Virginia Democratic leaders’ emergency plea to reinstate theircongressional map on Friday in what would’ve been one of...
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum...
Abortion pills can remain available through the mail for the immediate future after the Supreme Court on Thursday paused a lower court ruling that...
A federal appeals court this week agreed President Trump can continue holding off paying writer E. Jean Carroll her $83.3 million defamation judgment...
The wine importer who helped defeat President Trump’s tariffs at the Supreme Court has received a six-figure refund, his lawyers said Wednesday, as...
Supreme Court decision season is here. President Trump’s firings of officials long considered independent. His birthright citizenship restrictions....
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously rejected challenges to a Republican-friendly congressional map on Tuesday that is expected to hand the party an...
The Supreme Court on Monday wiped out a decision blocking Alabama Republicans’ congressional map, potentially allowing it to be used for the...
A group sued over President Trump’s Reflecting Pool project on Monday, arguing the renovation at the National Mall violates environmental and...
Alabama urged the Supreme Court on Friday for an emergency order clearing the way for its redrawn congressional map that could boost Republicans'...
A federal judge on Friday set a July 15 trial date for former FBI Director James Comey on his new criminal charges of threatening President Trump....
The Virginia Supreme Court threw out Democrats’ redistricting referendum on Friday, ruling 4-3 that it didn’t follow the proper procedures. The...
A Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission member sued President Trump on Thursday for firing him, claiming it was illegal in the latest...
The Supreme Court on Monday immediately put into effect its ruling invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map, leaving conservative Justice Samuel...
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday briefly halted a ruling that would prevent mifepristone, the common abortion pill, from being prescribed without an...
A federal judge declined to immediately block the Trump administration from closing East Potomac Golf Links, saying recent reports about renovation...
The Supreme Court’s invalidation of Louisiana’s congressional map has triggered a swirling debate about just how fundamentally the justices...
The federal government is expecting to issue the first refunds of President Trump’s invalidated tariffs on or about May 11, according to new court...
The Supreme Court’s liberal justices called their colleagues’ decision clawing back race-based redistricting on Wednesday a “now-completed...
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines struck down Louisiana’s congressional map on Wednesday that added a second...
The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a group of faith-based pregnancy centers on Wednesday in their fight with New Jersey’s Democratic attorney...
The upheaval of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by a would-be assassin has committed the Justice Department to two goals:...
The Supreme Court will weigh the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens on...
The Justice Department (DOJ) asked a federal judge to dissolve his block on the White House ballroom following the weekend shooting at the Washington...
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up if the Labor secretary needs to go to federal court to impose massive fines against employers for...
Importers are inching closer to receiving tariff refunds this week as companies begin to work through the government’s newly launched system. It...
A federal appeals court has halted a California law that requires visible identification for law enforcement, including immigration agents, agreeing...
After concessions from the government about its limits, the Supreme Court appeared open to backing the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC)...