Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian rights advocate, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court alleging a coordinated conspiracy between senior administration officials and three private organizations to target and deport him for his advocacy. Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student who became the public face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism. [...]

A coalition of 22 Democratic state attorneys general filed a comment letter Monday opposing the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs of up to 12.5 percent on 59 countries and the EU, arguing they are unlawful and amount to a pretext to reimpose broad tariffs previously struck down by the courts. The coalition, co-led by California Attorney [...]

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states may bar transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, upholding bans in West Virginia and Idaho, and holding that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause requires schools to allow participation based on gender identity rather than biological sex. The court issued a 6-3 [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens under the 14th Amendment, holding unconstitutional an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office in January 2025 that sought to deny them that status. In Trump v. [...]

A Virginia judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that bars the Virginia State Police from enforcing a newly passed assault weapons ban, halting the law six days before it was set to take effect. Lancaster County Circuit Court Judge John Martin ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ motion for an injunction on the law in [...]

A forensic scientist whose manipulation of DNA evidence has thrown more than 1,000 Colorado criminal cases into doubt pleaded guilty Tuesday to four felonies, closing a prosecution that has forced courts across the state to re-examine convictions based on her work. Yvonne “Missy” Woods was charged with 102 felonies in January 2025 and pleaded not [...]