49 h. ago US Judge temporarily halts deportations to third countries without a chance to challenge

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting people who have exhausted legal appeals to countries other than their own without first being allowed to argue that it would jeopardize their safety

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52 h. ago Biden administration offshore oil and gas lease in Gulf Coast is unlawful, federal judge says

A federal judge has ruled that more than 109,000 square miles of Gulf Coast federal were unlawfully opened up for offshore drilling leases

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53 h. ago Trump admin offers Voice of America employees buyouts as judge blocks it from being shut down

Just as a federal judge issued an order blocking the administration’s efforts to dismantle the broadcaster, U.S. Agency for Global Media staffers received an email offering them a renewed opportunity to sign up for the ‘Fork in the Road’ deferred resignation program

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55 h. ago Trump admin offers Voice of America employees buyouts as judge looks to spare network

Just as a federal judge appeared poised to issue an order blocking the administration’s efforts to dismantle the broadcaster, U.S. Agency for Global Media staffers received an email offering them a renewed opportunity to sign up for the ‘Fork in the Road’ deferred resignation program

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55 h. ago Federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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61 h. ago Another federal judge strikes down Trump’s ban on trans people in the military: ‘Plainly discriminates’

Second nationwide injunction blocks administration’s sweeping Pentagon policy backed by ‘no evidence,’ judge says

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66 h. ago Donald Trump moves to end union rights for many government agency employees – US politics live

White House signs executive order limiting numerous federal workers from unionisingTrump news at a glance: judge orders now-infamous Signal chat be retainedFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Federal judge to consider releasing immigration activist who took refuge in churches

A federal judge in Denver is set to hear arguments over whether an immigration and labor activist who took refuge in Colorado churches to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration should be freed from detention

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3 d. ago Another federal judge blocks Trump policy banning transgender troops in the military

A U.S. judge in Washington state has blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military

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3 d. ago Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

Restraining order was issued to ensure that records of Yemen attack group conversation are retainedA federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all Signal messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist.The temporary restraining order from James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, compelled defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, CIA director John Ratcliffe and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to save their texts from 11 to 15 March. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Judge says heat in Texas prisons unconstitutional as states face mounting lawsuits

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to spend billions to install air conditioning to cool them off

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3 d. ago Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis

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3 d. ago US judge calls heat in Texas prisons ‘unconstitutional’ but does not order AC

Lawsuit from advocates argues brutal heat routinely rising above 100F amounts to cruel and unusual punishmentA federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons was “plainly unconstitutional” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could cost billions.The ruling affirmed claims brought by advocates of people incarcerated in Texas, where summer heat routinely soars above 100F (38C) for weeks. But they will have to continue pressing their lawsuit later in a trial. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump administration backs down in legal fight to shutter Radio Free Europe

Kari Lake’s decision to reinstate a grant to Radio Free Europe comes after a federal judge signaled that he would side with the broadcaster in its lawsuit against the administration

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4 d. ago Extreme heat without AC in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel punishment, judge rules

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.”

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4 d. ago Judge says Justice Department attacked her character to 'impugn the integrity' of US judicial system

A federal judge accused the Justice Department of attacking her character in an effort to undermine the integrity of the judicial system, forcefully pushing back against the Trump administration’s criticism of the courts for blocking parts of the president’s agenda

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4 d. ago Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge

Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionallyA lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being halted.On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that books of “undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific value” had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel oil and gas leases in Alaska refuge, judge rules

A federal judge in Alaska has ruled that the Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel seven oil and gas leases that had been issued for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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5 d. ago Judge rules Columbia protester can’t be detained as she fights deportation

White House blocked from deporting Yunseo Chung, green card holder and student who sued Trump administrationA federal judge in Manhattan blocked immigration officials from detaining Yunseo Chung, a Columbia University student and legal permanent resident the Trump administration is trying to deport for taking part in Gaza solidarity protests.The 21-year-old green card holder, who has lived in the US since she was seven years old, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, arguing the government is “attempting to use immigration enforcement as a bludgeon to suppress speech that they dislike”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Iowa law banning school library books that depict sex acts on hold again after a new federal ruling

A federal judge says Iowa for now cannot continue to enforce part of its book ban law

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