Two groups of FBI employees sued (see here and here) the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to protect agents who were involved in the investigation of persons suspected of being involved in the attack on the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, and of the unlawful removal of classified documents by Donald Trump to [...]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the arrival of 10 migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Wednesday, after they took off the day before on the first US military plane headed there for the new mission. The DOD’s statement said: “These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities.” [...]

The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general. The Senate Judiciary Committee had advanced Bondi’s nomination to the full Senate vote last Wednesday. Bondi, a Florida native, spent 18 years as a prosecutor and became the first female attorney general in Florida in 2011. She chairs the Center for Litigation and co-chairs the [...]

Multiple plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a federal court in Maryland to block President Donald Trump’s executive order to discontinue all federal funding for gender-affirming care in individuals under the age of 19. The lawsuit asked for a preliminary and permanent injunction based on several grounds. Plaintiffs alleged that the order violated the [...]

The city of Baltimore and three civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to overturn two executive orders issued in recent weeks by the administration of US President Donald Trump aimed at ending federal diversity programs. The lawsuit argues the orders violate constitutional protections and undermine efforts to promote equal opportunities. The lawsuit [...]

Human Rights Watch warned Monday that transgender youths may face difficulty in accessing gender-affirming care on Monday. Of particular concern to them was an executive order signed by President Trump on January 28 that would prohibit children from being “mutilated” and withdraw federal funding and support for other essential gender-affirming care. Human Rights Watch has [...]

US research and information center Media Matters for America charged Tuesday that President Donald Trump is trying to “throttle the free press,” arguing that large companies and news sources are going along with it. These new sources include Paramount Global, Meta, and ABC News. President Trump has already settled claims with both Meta and ABC [...]

A group of immigration advocacy groups initiated a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration over its executive order barring migrants the right to make asylum claims at the US-Mexico border. First, the plaintiffs maintained that the order violates administrative procedure laws because the administration failed to provide adequate reasoning for the implementation. Section 706 of [...]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and demanding a review of US involvement in the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As of the time of writing, the Trump administration had yet [...]

The ACLU filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the University of Michigan (UM) on Monday claiming that the university’s trespass ban on students’ peaceful pro-Palestine protests on campus violated their right to free speech. UM issued trespass warnings against several students involved in the lawsuit for [...]