A US federal judge on Friday ordered the release of Turkish national and PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk. Öztürk was detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in March after her student F-1 visa was revoked, and has remained in custody for several weeks. In April, US District Judge William Sessions in Burlington ordered her [...]

The attorneys general for 15 US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday over the president’s executive order declaring that the US is in a national energy emergency. Executive Order No. 14,156, titled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,” was signed by Trump on his first day in office. The order directed agencies to utilize [...]

A panel of three US federal judges struck down a 2023 Alabama congressional map on Thursday, stating that the map was in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The permanent injunction comes after a long process of appeals beginning back in 2021, when the plaintiffs, a [...]

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was previously removed to El Salvador in March in defiance of a federal court order, has been returned to the US and is now facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee indicted Abrego Garcia [...]

A US federal court in Rhode Island on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against a presidential executive order issued in March that cuts funding for several federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This comes in response to an injunction filed by 21 state attorneys general last month.  Executive Order 14238, [...]

Two US federal court judges issued separate rulings Tuesday, both blocking President Donald Trump’s attempts to deport individuals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA). The rulings temporarily enjoin the US government from invoking the AEA to deport the petitioners and members of their class in Colorado and New York. Colorado District Court Judge [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans living in the US. The ruling follows a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individual beneficiaries, sponsors of humanitarian parole processes, [...]

A coalition of attorneys general from 17 US states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the implementation of President Donald Trump’s January 20 executive order stopping wind project approvals (Wind Directive). The lawsuit seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions stopping all federal agencies from implementing the Wind Directive for being arbitrary and [...]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday dropped the prosecution of seven individuals charged with trespassing and resisting and/or obstructing a police officer for their conduct related to the police clearing of an encampment at the University of Michigan in May 2024. The seven defendants were Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14230, which had targeted the law firm Perkins Coie LLP with sweeping federal penalties. In a 102-page opinion, Judge Beryl Howell condemned the order as a flagrant abuse of executive power and an unconstitutional [...]