A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey held Wednesday that the law used to deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil may be unconstitutionally vague. However, the court also found that the vagueness of the law as applied does not entitle Khalil to a preliminary injunction. The judge believes Khalil [...]

The US Supreme Court granted an application for stay made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, allowing for the revocation of status for around 500,000 migrants who came through the parole program for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan nationals. Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented on several grounds, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to continue imposing sweeping tariffs on Thursday, granting an emergency motion to stay a lower court decision. The US Court of International Trade had granted a motion to block the Trump administration’s global tariffs on Wednesday. The trade court held that [...]

Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that his tenure as a US special government employee at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is over, according to a post on X (formerly Twitter). Musk stated in his post: “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday warned that the abrupt suspension of US foreign aid has put human rights and millions of lives at risk globally by halting critical programs such as the provision of essential health care, food security and humanitarian support for people in extremely vulnerable situations globally, including women, girls, survivors of sexual violence, [...]

The US Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari from nonprofit Apache Stronghold on Tuesday, which sought an injunction on a federal government land transfer of an Apache holy site to a copper mining company. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, more commonly known as Oak Flat, is a 6.7 square-mile site east of Superior, Arizona. The petition for [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to stay an injunction, which could allow for DHS to continue the deportations of migrants to third countries without due process. The defendants in the pending case are officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, while [...]

National Public Radio (NPR) and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit against US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday, challenging the legality of an executive order that called for a cessation of federal funding to NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” directs the Corporation [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court’s decision to return books that had been removed from the library system in Llano County, Texas. Judge Kyle Duncan, who wrote the majority opinion for the case, reasoned that the plaintiffs have a right to receive information but that this [...]

A US federal district court judge on Friday permanently enjoined President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) targeting law firm Jenner & Block LLP (Jenner), ruling that the order violated the First Amendment to the US Constitution because it engaged in viewpoint discrimination. Judge John D. Bates of the US District Court for the District of [...]