The Trump administration abruptly cut off legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children on Tuesday, telling government-funded attorneys across the country they should immediately stop their work. The stop-work order effectively prevents immigrant children from having legal defense, leaving them to figure out how to navigate the American judicial system on their own. Immigrant Defenders Law [...]

A US federal judge in Boston entered an order on Wednesday to dissolve a temporary restraining order that blocked US President Donald Trump’s government employee buyout offer. Judge George A. O’Toole of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts found that the labor unions who filed a complaint against the directive lacked standing. [...]

A US federal judge for the District of Columbia ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to reinstate webpages and data removed following President Trump’s executive order on gender ideology while litigation moves forward. Dr Christine Petrin, president of the board [...]

The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general. The Senate Judiciary Committee had advanced Bondi’s nomination to the full Senate vote last Wednesday. Bondi, a Florida native, spent 18 years as a prosecutor and became the first female attorney general in Florida in 2011. She chairs the Center for Litigation and co-chairs the [...]

A US federal district judge granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid on Tuesday, pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments next Monday morning. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo directing federal agencies to temporarily pause [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial. Brenda Andrew claimed prosecutors called her a “slut puppy,” holding up her underwear for the jury. In an opinion from the Supreme Court, the majority ordered the US 10th Circuit of [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Thursday, emphasizing its commitment to end the current military conflict in Sudan. OFAC sanctioned SAF commander Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, stating that the leader is “choosing war over good-faith negotiation and de-escalation.” OFAC also [...]

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) can end its longstanding federal oversight, thus approving the sustainment plan. The decision comes in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to reduce monitoring. Judge Susie Morgan in her ruling ordered [...]

US Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday the final ruling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports, which would reduce the burden of medical debt and ensure that patients are not denied access to credit due to unpaid medical bills. With the finalization of the Consumer Financial [...]

The parents of the 13-year-old who killed 10 people at a school in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2023 were convicted on Monday. The teen’s father, Vladimir Kecmanovic, was accused of committing a serious crime against public security as well as abusing and neglecting a minor. As a result of the trial, Vladimir was sentenced to 14 [...]