Chris Geidner

3 weeks ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

On Friday afternoon, heading into the weekend, the U.S. Supreme Court told the Trump administration that the non-department Department of Government Efficiency can more or less do what it wants. In a pair of orders on the shadow docket, the court’s conservatives — over the objection of the liberal justices — allowed DOGE to access individualized, sensitive Social Security data for all Americans even as they prevented Americans from being able to access information about DOGE.

3 weeks ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

On Thursday morning, the Democratic appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court each authored a majority decision for the court in one of the more significant cases of the term. These were not 5-4 decisions, however, where Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson managed to convince two of the Republican appointees to join them. To the contrary, all three decisions were authored for a unanimous court.

3 weeks ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

A federal judge has found that the Trump administration’s removal of people from the United States on March 15 under the purported authority of President Donald Trump’s invocation of a wartime power, sending them to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, violated their due process rights because they were not given the chance to challenge the action.

3 weeks ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

Dear reader, Law Dork — Chris Geidner — here!It’s been 135 days since President Donald Trump took an oath of office that he has regularly made clear is being regarded as more of a suggestion — at best. In that time, I’ve published more than 85 reports at Law Dork on the Trump administration’s actions and related litigation. Law Dork has been covering the legal consequences of the Trump administration nonstop.

3 weeks ago | lawdork.com | Chris Geidner

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the federal government to continue providing transgender people in federal prisons with hormone therapy and social accommodations like clothing that they would have been allowed before the Trump administration tried to end such policies.