Victor Qiu is a JURIST Washington, D.C. correspondent and an attorney. The views expressed in this article are his own and in his personal capacity. Last week, I attended the oral argument for Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan, at the United States Supreme Court. While [...]

Two transgender Kansas residents on Friday filed a lawsuit in state court, asking the judge to strike down the recent law that immediately invalidates the driver’s license of anyone who’s gender on their license does not match the one assigned at birth. The lawsuit challenging bill SB 244 was filed on behalf of anonymous plaintiffs [...]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Thursday to dismiss the human smuggling charges against him.  He accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) of vindictive prosecution, saying that the Trump Administration is pursuing the case because it was ordered to return him to the United States. Abrego Garcia [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding from 21 states and the District of Columbia based on their refusal to turn over personal data on SNAP applicants and recipients. Writing for the US District Court for the [...]

The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and New Jersey for not providing voter registration records. The Department had previously sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for allegedly refusing to cooperate with such record production. US Attorney General Pamela Bondi stated: [...]

A US federal district judge on Thursday ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated the Internal Revenue Code by inappropriately handing thousands of taxpayers’ confidential information over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): he IRS violated the IRC approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE through TIN Matching without confirming [...]

A US federal court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy is unlawful because it fails to provide migrants a chance to object or raise safety concerns.  The case, before the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, came out of a class action lawsuit brought by eight migrants who were [...]

US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday announced that the Trump administration will temporarily halt some Medicaid funding to Minnesota due to alleged misuse of public funds. During a conference with Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz, Vance said that “there are way too many Americans who are being defrauded by very bad actors [...]

A coalition of 14 state attorneys general and Pennsylvania’s governor jointly filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal childhood immunization schedule. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and acting Centers [...]

FedEx filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday to recover a full refund of tariffs FedEx payed to comply with the president’s several executive orders imposing high tariffs on imports in 2025. FedEx filed their suit in the US Court for International Trade. The company seeks “a full refund from Defendants of all [...]