The International Bar Association (IBA) raised alarm on Friday regarding US President Donald Trump’s latest actions, including pardons issued to approximately 1,500 individuals who were either convicted or charged in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, pardons issued to 14 militia organization members, and a “blanket pardon” for many others. Trump had also followed [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court decision temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at federal agencies and business that contract with the federal government. The US District Court for the District of Maryland had blocked orders 14151 and [...]

Federal Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, for a second time blocked the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA), stating that the plaintiff, NetChoice LLC, has adequately shown a likelihood of success on its First Amendment claim. Specifically, Freeman noted that NetChoice adequately established that [...]

A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a complaint Thursday against the Trump administration for sweeping layoffs across the Education Department, saying it amounts to an illegal dismantling of an agency created by Congress. The Attorney Generals (AGs) for Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, [...]

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and seven other students of Columbia University filed a complaint on Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to block the university from releasing student or student-worker disciplinary records in relation to 11 specific incidents to the US House of Representatives Committee on Education and [...]

The administration of US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to partially lift three nationwide injunctions that have blocked the implementation of an executive order on birthright citizenship, according to court documents filed Thursday. Birthright citizenship is the legal principle that grants automatic US citizenship to nearly anyone born on US soil. Narrow [...]

US federal agencies must rehire tens of thousands of fired probationary employees after a federal judge ruled Thursday their firings were carried out unlawfully. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction, which broadened the previous temporary restraining order. Apart from reinstating the fired workers, the order also requires government agencies [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday held that President Donald Trump’s “unprecedented removal” of the chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), Susan Tsui Grundmann, was unlawful. Noting that “no President has ever removed a Member” in nearly 50 years since the FLRA’s creation, Judge Sparkle [...]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief, Lee Zeldin, on Wednesday announced 31 deregulatory actions to “Power the Great American Comeback.” In doing so, Zeldin noted the agency’s commitment to “fulfilling President Trump’s promise to…restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions.” Stating that these “historic actions” [...]

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate’s execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could cause the convict’s “pain and terror” in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The Louisiana State Penitentiary scheduled Jessie Hoffman’s execution by nitrogen gas for March 18, [...]