Ella Lee

3 days ago | thehill.com | Zach Schonfeld |Ella Lee

President Trump’s efforts to upend the conventional understanding of birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court this week, the first time in his second term that the justices will consider a major administrative action from the bench. The justices won’t be directly addressing the constitutionality of Trump’s order blocking automatic citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to noncitizens, for now.

6 days ago | thehill.com | Ella Lee

The Trump administration may not, for now, impose new conditions furthering the president’s agenda on certain mass transit and homelessness services grants, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Senior U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein, an appointee of former President Carter, temporarily blocked the administration from placing the constraints on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants for the local governments that challenged them, from the Seattle area to New York City.

1 week ago | thehill.com | Ella Lee |Zach Schonfeld

Forget 911. When the Trump administration has an emergency, it just calls nine — justices, that is. At the Supreme Court, a staggering number of emergency appeals are pending, most brought by the administration and ranging from birthright citizenship to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to independent agency leader firings. There are nine emergency applications now before the justices. And yet, as they pile up, the court is taking its time.

1 week ago | thehill.com | Brooke Migdon |Ella Lee

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s administration to begin enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military, undermining two lower court decisions and handing a victory to an administration that has broadly sought to restrict transgender rights.

1 week ago | thehill.com | Ella Lee

The Justice Department said Friday that a “settlement in principle” has been reached with rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family to resolve a lawsuit they filed over her death during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. At an emergency hearing Friday afternoon, DOJ lawyer Joseph Gonzalez and Robert Sticht, a lawyer for Babbitt’s husband, Aaron, acknowledged the settlement agreement but said that nothing has been signed.