More than 250 people from Charlotte, North Carolina, and the surrounding area have been arrested during an immigration crackdown, the US Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin lauded “Operation Charlotte’s Web” as a major win, stating: While the media and sanctuary politicians try and spread falsehoods and demean DHS law [...]

A US federal appeals court on Wednesday removed a preliminary injunction that restricted federal agents’ use of force against protestors in the Chicago area. The panel held that the lower court order was “overbroad” and impractical, writing: In no uncertain terms, the district court’s order enjoins an expansive range of defendants, including the President of [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday took up a case by eight Democratic-led states challenging the Trump administration’s termination of millions of dollars in teacher-training grants. US District Judge Angel Kelley said that the challenge to the Department of Education’s decision to cancel certain educational grants belonged both in federal district court and in the [...]

A US federal appellate court panel on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case to determine whether Congress may strip Planned Parenthood and its affiliates of its Medicaid funding. The case challenges the “Defund Provision” of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which excluded Planned Parenthood-affiliate organizations from federal funding. Before the US Court of [...]

A US federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide better conditions for detainees in a Chicago immigration facility. Judge Robert Gettleman of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois mandated that DHS comply with several hygiene-related requirements, ordering that cells be cleaned at least twice daily, clean [...]

The NAACP’s Virginia Chapter on Monday sued the Virginia Board of Elections for rejecting college students’ applications and same-day registration provisional ballots. The complaint stated that application and registration requirements are unduly cumbersome for college students, effectively hindering their right to vote: On too many college and university campuses in Virginia, however, the right to [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with firing almost every employee working within the Community Relations Service (CRS), a Department of Justice (DOJ) agency known as “America’s Peacemaker.” US District Judge Indira Talwani declined to grant the plaintiffs’ request for injunctive relief. While Judge Talwani ruled that the plaintiffs were [...]

Devastating impacts have resulted from US state laws that require healthcare providers to notify a parent when their minor child elects to have an abortion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Wednesday. In its formal report, “Whose Abortion Is It? The Harms of State-Mandated Parental Notification for Abortion and Judicial Bypass in the United States,” [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (UVA) that forbids the school from “discrimination” based on race, sex or national origin in admissions and hiring. The agreement follows months of pressure from the administration after a DOJ investigation that began in April led to officials claiming [...]

Twenty-four states on Thursday commenced a lawsuit against the Trump administration for cancelling a $7 billion solar grant which would have brought solar energy to more than 900,000 low-income families across the country. The complaint alleges that the termination of the grant program, Solar for All, contravened the contracts between the EPA and the plaintiffs, [...]