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Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to dismantle Education Department

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises. The injunction was requested […]

todayMay 22, 2025

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Judge finds cause to hold Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating deportation order

A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg warned he could refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not “purge” its contempt. Boasberg said the administration could do so by returning to U.S. custody those who were sent to the El Salvador prison in violation of his order […]

todayApril 17, 2025

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Judge says Trump must face defamation suit from Central Park Five

A federal judge declined to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by the Central Park Five against Donald Trump, handing a legal setback to the sitting U.S. president who tried to end the case. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia ruled that Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise, now known as the Exonerated Five, presented enough evidence in the case to proceed, reports Reuters. The five Black and brown men, who were convicted as minors […]

todayApril 11, 2025

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Judge dismisses corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, acquiescing to the Justice Department’s extraordinary request to set aside criminal charges so the Democrat could help with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge, though, denied prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho’s order to dismiss the case “with prejudice” spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump, or potentially risk having the Republican’s […]

todayApril 2, 2025

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Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts to the agency. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those who were placed on administrative leave. The lawsuit singled out Musk as a defendant covered by the preliminary injunction. Lawyers for USAID […]

todayMarch 19, 2025

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Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later

A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he needed to issue his order immediately because the government already was flying migrants it claimed were newly deportable under President Donald Trump’s proclamation to be incarcerated in El Salvador and Honduras. El Salvador already agreed this week to take up to […]

todayMarch 16, 2025

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‘Sham’: Judge chastises Trump administration, orders thousands of federal employees to get jobs back

In a blistering ruling on Thursday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to “immediately” offer thousands of recently fired federal employees their jobs back. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered that federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Veterans Affairs and Agriculture, rehire probationary employees who were terminated in mass, citing that it was “unlawful,” reports Politico. The lawsuit brought by federal employee unions came after the Trump administration implemented the mass firings as part of […]

todayMarch 14, 2025

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Federal judge reinstates labor board member Gwynne Wilcox fired by President Trump

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump acted illegally when he fired a member of an independent labor agency, and the judge ordered that she be allowed to remain on the job. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found Trump did not have the authority to remove Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board. “An American president is not a king — not even an ‘elected’ one — and his power to remove federal officers […]

todayMarch 7, 2025

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Judge largely blocks Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs

A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore granted a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from terminating or changing federal contracts they consider equity-related. Abelson found that the orders likely carry constitutional violations, including against free-speech rights. Trump signed an order his first day in office directing federal agencies to terminate all “equity-related” grants or contracts. He signed […]

todayFebruary 22, 2025