Kyle Cheney

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Josh Gerstein |Kyle Cheney

A federal judge has dismissed a Democratic Party lawsuit claiming an executive order issued by President Donald Trump was intruding on the independence of the Federal Election Commission. In a ruling Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the Democratic Party groups’ case was simply too speculative to justify emergency intervention from the court.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Josh Gerstein |Kyle Cheney

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue providing gender-affirming care to hundreds of transgender prison inmates, ruling that an abrupt decision to curtail their medical care was not based on any “reasoned” analysis, as the law requires.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Madison Fernandez |Ry Rivard |Kyle Cheney |Josh Gerstein

The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city is suing the Trump administration for “malicious prosecution,” after federal prosecutors dropped a criminal charge against him for allegedly trespassing at an immigrant detention facility. Attorneys for Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who is one of the six Democratic candidates running for governor, say interim U.S. attorney Alina Habba “directed and ratified the unlawful arrest” of Baraka.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kyle Cheney

The Trump administration has admitted that it improperly deported another immigrant in violation of a court order — the fourth known case in which the administration deported someone erroneously or in breach of specific legal requirements. Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, had been in immigration detention since 2022 while deportation proceedings against him were pending.

1 week ago | politico.com | Kyle Cheney

Both court rulings are on hold for now while the administration appeals. But they point to a broader strategy Trump has used in his effort to swiftly enact his second-term agenda: He repurposes old or obscure statutes, especially those that give presidents special powers during times of war or other national crises. Beyond the realm of tariffs, he’s used the same playbook to try to supercharge his deportation program and to try to kneecap public-employee labor unions.