Chief Judge John McConnell for the US District Court of Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the Department of Transportation (DOT) cannot require states to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in order to receive federal transportation funding. The case was brought by 20 Democratic state attorneys general in May, claiming that the DOT and other federal [...]

US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration Monday over its new rule that would exclude from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program employers that the Department of Education found to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts by 22 states, alleged that the [...]

Twenty-six states sued the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts for the department’s suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the current government shutdown. The USDA sent a letter to the states on October 24, 2025, suspending the allotment of SNAP benefits [...]

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to overrule an injunction set by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia preventing the administration from firing Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office. The administration filed its appeal to the Supreme Court alleging it [...]

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the US House of Representatives Tuesday for not administering the oath of office to representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election to the House on September 23. The complaint follows a letter from Mayes to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that Grijalva be sworn in. Mayes now asks [...]

The University of Arizona (UA) and Vanderbilt University became the latest institutions not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” UA specifically stated that it has not agreed to the compact. Vanderbilt provided an update saying it was looking forward to “continuing the conversation” but that it was only asked to [...]

US District Judge William E. Smith of the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the court’s previous order requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove certain conditions for states to accept Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants. Following the court’s September order mandating [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law Monday that requires social media companies to display a warning to users under 18 years old about the health risks of social media platforms. Introduced by state Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, AB 56 mandates that covered social media platforms display the following: The Surgeon General has warned that while [...]

Justice Heather Perkins-McVey of the Ontario Court of Justice on Tuesday sentenced Tamara Lich and Chris Barber for their roles in the “Freedom Convoy” protest that blocked the streets of Ottawa in 2022. Justice Perkins-McVey sentenced both to an 18-month conditional sentence, consisting of 12 months of house arrest followed by six months under curfew. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a press release on Friday that a grand jury indicted three people for doxxing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in August. The individuals are charged with conspiracy and publicly disclosing the personal information of a federal agent. The DOJ alleges the three defendants—Cynthia Raygoza, Ashleigh [...]