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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Zach Schonfeld |Sarah Fortinsky |Brooke Migdon |Ella Lee
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday refused the Justice Department’s effort to put itself on the hook for an $83.3 million defamation award advice columnist E. Jean Carroll won at trial from President Trump. It’s the latest setback for the president in his efforts to fight Carroll’s lawsuits at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, the 2nd Circuit upheld her earlier $5 million jury award.
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1 week ago | 
wpri.com | Zach Schonfeld |Brooke Migdon
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that stands to impact similar laws passed in roughly half the country.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbs4indy.com | Zach Schonfeld |Rebecca Beitsch
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3 weeks ago | 
ktla.com | Zach Schonfeld |Rebecca Beitsch
The Trump administration has moved to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from imprisonment in a Salvadoran facility in order to file a criminal case against him with charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. The return of Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported despite being protected from removal to his home country, comes after administration officials had fought court rulings ordering his return.
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3 weeks ago | 
wkrn.com | Ella Lee |Zach Schonfeld
The Supreme Court on Friday handed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) two major victories in its expanding legal battle over drastic efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy. In two separate emergency rulings issued simultaneously, the court lifted a block on DOGE personnel accessing sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) systems and wiped a ruling forcing DOGE to turn over discovery in a records lawsuit.
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3 weeks ago | 
qcnews.com | Zach Schonfeld |Rebecca Beitsch
The Trump administration has moved to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from imprisonment in a Salvadoran facility in order to file a criminal case against him with charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. The return of Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported despite being protected from removal to his home country, comes after administration officials had fought court rulings ordering his return.
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1 month ago | 
wytv.com | Zach Schonfeld |Lexi Lonas |Brandon Jaces
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Harvard University’s certification to enroll foreign students. Within hours of Harvard filing suit against the move, Boston-based U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs agreed to halt the revocation until she can receive further arguments. She scheduled a May 29 hearing on whether to grant a longer pause.
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1 month ago | 
cw33.com | Zach Schonfeld |Abbey Bowling
The Supreme Court split 4-4 on whether to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school on Thursday, leaving intact a lower ruling that voided the Oklahoma school’s contract. “The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided court,” the court wrote in its one-sentence, unsigned opinion. Only eight justices sat for the case since Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused.
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1 month ago | 
fox59.com | Zach Schonfeld |Rebecca Beitsch
The Justice Department accused Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) of having "slammed her forearms" into immigration officers during a scuffle outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center as officers attempted to arrest Newark's mayor. The criminal complaint, made public Tuesday, provides the most detailed picture yet of why federal prosecutors believe McIver's actions amount to the federal crime of assaulting federal law enforcement, a felony charge.
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1 month ago | 
phl17.com | Zach Schonfeld |Rebecca Beitsch |Tessa Peloso
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove Tren de Aragua members but determined the administration has provided insufficient notice before carrying out the deportations. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines’s ruling contrasts with several other federal judges who have ruled Trump illegally invoked the wartime statute.
