Lawsuit challenges restrictions on Head Start for kids in the US illegally
A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s restrictions.
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Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba faces uncertain future as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor
The president nominated Alina Habba for the position pending Senate confirmation, but the state’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim signaled their opposition to her appointment.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears
U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. in Nashville is expected to rule soon on whether to free Abrego Garcia while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.
Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at a pivotal hearing in its standoff with Trump
The case is before U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, who also is presiding over lawsuits brought by Harvard against the administration’s efforts to keep it from hosting international students.
Under pressure, House Republicans consider vote on Epstein file
They are putting forward a resolution that carries no legal weight but nods to the growing demand for greater transparency.
Trump’s firing of 2 Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission was unconstitutional, judge rules
One of the commissioners, Alvaro Bedoya, resigned after suing to challenge the firings. The other plaintiff, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, can now resume her duties as commissioner because Trump lacks the constitutional authority to remove her, the judge ruled Thursday.
Federal lawsuit seeks to stop ICE agents from arresting people at immigration courts
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia says the arrests of thousands of people at court have stripped them of rights afforded to them under U.S. immigration law and the Fifth Amendment.
Justice Department fires Maurene Comey, prosecutor on Epstein case and daughter of ex-FBI director
Maurene Comey was a veteran lawyer in the Southern District of New York, long considered the most elite of the Justice Department’s prosecution offices.
Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles
The move accounts for nearly half of the soldiers sent to the city to deal with protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Trump administration fires 17 immigration court judges across ten states, union says
The union said the judges were working in 10 different states across the country — California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
Immigration agents demand tenant information from landlords, stirring questions and confusion
Immigration authorities are demanding that landlords turn over leases, rental applications, forwarding addresses, identification cards and other information on their tenants, a sign that the Trump administration is targeting them to assist in its drive for mass deportations.
Trump urged supporters to see conspiracies everywhere. With Epstein, that’s coming back to haunt him
Last week, the Justice Department and the FBI abruptly walked back the notion that there’s an Epstein client list of elites who participated in the wealthy New York financier’s trafficking of underage girls.
A Senate vote this week will test the popularity of DOGE spending cuts
Senate Republicans will test the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts this week by aiming to pass President Donald Trump’s request to claw back $9.4 billion in public media and foreign aid spending.
Nursing homes struggle with Trump’s immigration crackdown
Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration.
Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration
Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.
Head Start to be cut off for immigrants without legal status, Trump administration says
The Trump administration will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday.
How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will impact Indiana’s state budget
Indiana could lose out on hundreds of millions in health care provider taxes and pay millions more to administer food programming.
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.
US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling
The immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan arrived in South Sudan on Friday after a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to relocate them.
Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ’60 Minutes’ interview
Paramount told media outlets the money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to the president himself. It said the settlement did not involve an apology.