Judges have blocked plans to add a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form and cut federal funding for public schools with DEI programs.
The new details emerged in lawsuits filed by some of the students who suddenly had their status canceled in recent weeks with little explanation.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also tucked a lesson on the three branches of government inside his ruling, cautioning that the American system of checks and balances must remain intact if the nation is going to continue to thrive.
Since taking office for his second term, Trump has targeted National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two broadcasters that receive a portion of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as appropriated by Congress.
More than 1,200 students nationwide previously had lost their legal status or had visas revoked, leaving them at risk for deportation.
On leave from Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, Tom Wheeler is part of the Trump administration’s inter-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is in a battle with Harvard University.
The administrations asks tht the court should allow the ban to take effect nationwide, except for the seven service members and one aspiring member of the military who sued.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The seven-day pause ordered by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Wednesday is the first sign of a possible change, either in tone or position, in the contentious legal fight that already has been to the Supreme Court.
Two major law firms are expected to ask separate judges on Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were designed to punish them and hurt their business operations.
| A Bloomington-based immigration attorney said his office has been flooded with calls from international students worried they will have to abandon their studies and leave the country. |
It’s been challenging to keep up with the 129 executive orders President Donald Trump has signed since he took office in January.
The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.
The Supreme Court acted “literally in the middle of the night” and without sufficient explanation in blocking the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a sharp dissent that castigated the seven-member majority.
First the nation’s top law firms. Then its premier universities. Now, President Donald Trump is leaning on the advocacy groups that underpin U.S. civil society.
The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday.
AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps informed volunteers Tuesday that they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances beyond your control.”
Legal challenges to executive orders aimed at transgender people are likely and on Wednesday, the Trump administration sued Maine for not complying with the government’s policies.
The policy comes after a judge ruled the White House had violated the AP’s free speech by banning it because the Trump administration disagreed with the outlet’s decision not to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
The federal judge said Trump administration officials had defied a “clear” Supreme Court order.