The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it will no longer defend the independent status of three key consumer and worker protection agencies. The announcement came in a letter by Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris and addressed to Sen. Dick Durbin (III.). The agencies affected are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), [...]

The US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, resigned Thursday in response to an order by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop a case against New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon spearheaded a corruption case against Adams, alleging a “straw donor scheme” where individuals connected to Adams donated to [...]

Two transgender girls in New Hampshire brought the first legal action challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports on Wednesday. The amended complaint is an expansion of a lawsuit filed last August, after a state bill prohibiting transgender girls from participating in female sports was signed into law. Last September, [...]

The organization Equal Rights Center (ERC) filed a lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday alleging that it unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately advertising for-profit colleges and universities to Black users, while marketing public colleges and universities to white users. ERC argued in its complaint that Meta’s discriminatory marketing practices were unlawful [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants flown to Guantánamo Bay. The ACLU claims that holding migrants without access to lawyers or a means to communicate with relatives violates their habeas corpus rights, First Amendment rights, due [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Tuesday denied an emergency motion by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reinstate federal aid funding freezes. The panel of three judges unanimously stated that the existing Temporary Restraining Order issued by a district court on February 1 was lawful. In the short decision, [...]

Twnety-seven religious groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), among various government officials, challenging a new immigration enforcement policy near places of worship. The plaintiffs, faith-based groups  in the Jewish and Christian traditions, brought the lawsuit after a “Recession Memo” was released [...]

A US federal judge for the District of Columbia ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to reinstate webpages and data removed following President Trump’s executive order on gender ideology while litigation moves forward. Dr Christine Petrin, president of the board [...]

Steve Bannon, a White House adviser to US President Donald Trump during his first term, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors in a fundraising campaign that claimed to support the construction of a wall along the southern US border. The plea deal allows Bannon to avoid prison time under a three-year conditional release, compared [...]

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) suspended its US-funded humanitarian work due to President Donald Trump’s executive order to “re-evaluate” foreign aid on Tuesday. Providing essential aid to over 20 countries, the NRC said that this suspension is the first in its history, and expresses regret at the significant impact that this will have on the [...]