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 [...]

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday to return a gay Guatemalan man to the US after immigration authorities unlawfully deported him to Mexico, despite a court order granting him protection from removal to Guatemala. US District Judge Brian E. Murphy found that the man, identified as OCG, had [...]

The US Supreme Court split evenly Thursday over a challenge to the attempted establishment of the country’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court that found the proposed Catholic charter school unconstitutional. The US Supreme Court’s opinion did not explain its ruling. Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself [...]