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FILE – U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)

Appeals court panel appears divided on Trump’s deportation of immigrants under wartime law

March 24, 2025 at 3:21 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Monday questioned the impartiality of the federal judge who blocked his plans to deport Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, levelling his criticism only hours before his...

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service

March 18, 2025 at 8:09 p.m.

A federal judge blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service on Tuesday, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for his sweeping...

People rally on 14th St NW in support of fired USAID workers during a protest, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, by the USAID headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

March 18, 2025 at 4:02 p.m.

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked...

Judge blocks Trump immigration policy allowing arrests in churches for some religious groups

February 24, 2025 at 4:10 p.m.

A federal judge on Monday blocked immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations in houses of worship for Quakers and a handful of other religious groups.

Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid approved by Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Judge says he will temporarily block President Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on paid leave

February 7, 2025 at 10:00 p.m.

A federal judge says he will temporarily block the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

February 5, 2025 at 12:33 p.m.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in...

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order commuting sentences for people convicted of Jan. 6 offenses in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump issues sweeping pardon of supporters charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack

January 20, 2025 at 8:32 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he was pardoning about 1,500 of his supporters who have been charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, using his sweeping clemency...

Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media outside of Manhattan federal court in New York, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Judge holds Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for continued lies about Georgia election workers

January 10, 2025 at 3:59 p.m.

Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Friday for the second time this week — by a second federal judge — for continuing to spread lies about two former...

FILE – Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions are in limbo as a DC court awaits Donald Trump’s White House return

January 6, 2025 at 9:09 a.m.

It’s the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,...

FILE – New Orleans police and federal agents investigate a deadly New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

The French Quarter’s metal barriers were gone on New Year’s, leaving a critical security gap

January 3, 2025 at 4:35 p.m.

Steel columns known as bollards were installed to restrict vehicle access to Bourbon Street. The posts retracted to allow for deliveries to its bars and restaurants, until — gummed up...

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