Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to rein in transgender policies in educational institutions by launching Title IX investigations and lawsuits across the country during his first few months in office. From Maine to Washington State, the Education and Justice departments’ recent actions against states and schools are setting the stage for an intensifying…

An appellate court handed the Trump administration a small victory Thursday evening by temporarily blocking a lower court’s order that required the government to take steps to return a Venezuelan national it deported to El Salvador. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit gave no explanation for its decision but granted the administration…

Maine’s attorney general denied on Thursday that his state was in violation of Title IX after the Trump administration sued it last month over its policy on transgender athletes. In a response to the federal court in Maine, the state attorney general’s office said the Department of Justice’s lawsuit had no constitutional basis. The lawsuit…

FBI Director Kash Patel faced pointed questions from Senate appropriators on Thursday during a hearing after he took the unusual position one day prior that he needed a bigger budget than what President Donald Trump had proposed in order to carry out the bureau’s mission. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Patel’s request in the…

FBI Director Kash Patel made the case to House lawmakers during a hearing on Wednesday that the bureau needed an operating budget that is roughly a billion dollars more than what President Donald Trump has proposed. Patel was pressed on the discrepancy by House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT). The Democratic lawmaker repeatedly…

President Donald Trump has been carrying out his deportation plans forcefully and rapidly, pleasing his base while alarming some advocates who say the administration is ignoring due process rights of deportees. Recent high-profile deportation cases that have attracted the legal services of well-funded liberal immigration groups have put a spotlight on due process and how…

A judge told the Trump administration on Tuesday that she is standing behind an order she gave last month requiring the government to take steps to retrieve a second man from a prison in El Salvador after deporting him there under the Alien Enemies Act. Judge Stephanie Gallagher of Maryland said she would pause the…

The Department of Justice argued to an appellate court on Monday that the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to data stored within a trio of federal agencies should not be scrutinized by the courts. DOJ attorney Jack Starcher told a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should toss out…

The State of Maine dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday after reaching a settlement agreement, which comes as the two parties have been feuding over transgender policies. Maine agreed to withdraw its lawsuit in exchange for the Department of Agriculture vowing not to freeze the millions of dollars it directs to the…

The Trump administration told a Washington, D.C., court on Thursday that the president was the sole person who could decide whether the conditions of the Alien Enemies Act had been met. The argument comes as the government has faced a string of legal setbacks over its decision to invoke the powerful deportation law. Attorneys for the…