Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in a case in which a lower court blocked the Department of Homeland Security from stripping some Venezuelan immigrants of their temporary protected status. Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in an application to the high court that the decision to cancel immigrants’ temporary protected status, known as TPS, involved “particularly…

Hunter Biden moved on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit he brought in 2023 against the IRS as part of his broader decision to abandon the legal fights he waged while his father was president. In a brief one-page dismissal notice, former President Joe Biden’s son alerted the federal court in Washington, D.C., that he was dropping…

A federal judge in Maryland set new deadlines on Wednesday for the Trump administration to meet as part of the court’s effort to understand what the government has done to attempt to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from detention in El Salvador. Judge Paula Xinis said in an order that the government must provide by Monday…

President Donald Trump put his trust in Harmeet Dhillon to enforce his culture agenda, a mission that involves lurching the Department of Justice’s historic civil rights office in a new direction — and losing a majority of the office’s workforce along the way. Dhillon’s sharp pivot toward curbing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and combating antisemitism and anti-Christian sentiments…

Two immigration incidents that sparked controversy over the weekend have left at least one judge to examine whether the Trump administration properly deported mothers who exited the country with their young children in tow. The cases, including one brought in federal court in Louisiana, involve deportations of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter and another…

A judge appeared skeptical at a hearing on Monday of the Trump administration’s decision to target a top law firm’s employees with an executive order that suspended their security clearances and limited their access to federal buildings. Judge John Bates told a Department of Justice attorney his interpretation of the security clearance provision was “strange”…

President Donald Trump is fighting to withhold funding from cities and states to force them to adopt his agenda on immigration, transgender policies, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Democrats are arguing that the president is doing so unlawfully, but court cases on the matter have in recent years seen mixed results. Past administrations have found…

The Department of Homeland Security argued to a federal judge in Massachusetts that it did not violate his order, which modified the process of deporting certain migrants, because a different federal department carried out the removals. The DHS told Judge Brian Murphy that because his order applied only to the named defendants in the case…

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to pause a lower court’s order that blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing a ban on service members who have gender dysphoria. Solicitor General John Sauer argued on behalf of President Donald Trump, Hegseth, and other military leaders that a lower court’s injunction in Washington…

A judge on Wednesday put a weeklong pause on collecting information in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation case after the Trump administration asked her to, but the details behind the judge’s decision remain under seal. The surprise move came one day after Judge Paula Xinis admonished the Department of Justice for refusing to provide information to Abrego Garcia’s legal team…