Trump administration abruptly reverses termination of legal status for international students
More than 1,200 students nationwide previously had lost their legal status or had visas revoked, leaving them at risk for deportation.
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Indianapolis attorney is part of Trump push to change culture on campus
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.
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ban on transgender members of the military to take effect, for now
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.
Federal judge blocks Trump push to cut funding to public schools over diversity programs
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Federal judge temporarily halts order for details on any efforts to return Abrego Garcia to US
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.
Law firms fighting Trump to ask judges to permanently block executive orders
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.
Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
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.
Alito’s dissent in deportation case says court rushed to block Trump with middle-of-the night order
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.
Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump’s sights for punitive action
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.
Trump officials’ defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says
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.
DOGE targets AmeriCorps in its latest cost-cutting effort
AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps informed volunteers Tuesday that they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances beyond your control.”
Trump kept his promise to order a ban on transgender female athletes. Court fights have arrived
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.
White House is starting new media policy that restricts wire services’ access to the president
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.
Judge presses Trump administration on its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The federal judge said Trump administration officials had defied a “clear” Supreme Court order.
Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event
Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday.
El Salvador president says he won’t return a wrongly deported man back to the US
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said he doesn’t “have the power” to return the man to the United States.
US still won’t say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
A U.S. district court judge now is weighing whether to grant a request from the man’s legal team to compel the government to explain why it should not be held in contempt.
Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
Officials said stripping the immigrants of their Social Security numbers will cut them off from many financial services and encourage them to “self-deport.”
Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man
The court acted in the case of a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.
Supreme Court allows Trump’s firings of independent agency board members to take effect, for now
Chief Justice John Roberts signed an order pausing a ruling from the federal appeals court in Washington that had temporarily restored the two women to their jobs.