Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

The Justice Department argued to a judge at a hearing on Wednesday that she should dismiss a lawsuit brought by Perkins Coie, a prominent Democratic-aligned law firm, over allegations that President Donald Trump unconstitutionally revoked its employees’ security clearances and attempted to curb its lucrative work with government contractors. Richard Lawson, a deputy associate attorney…

Elon Musk’s social media platform has provided Trump administration officials with a convenient avenue to push messages and combat unfavorable narratives, but when that activity online conflicts with the court record, judges and plaintiffs have taken notice. Federal judges and the outside groups bringing the lawsuits that are stymying President Donald Trump’s agenda have repeatedly…

A Department of Justice attorney argued to an appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to ban people with gender dysphoria from the military and that doing so would improve military preparedness. Jason Manion made his case to a three-judge panel that the policy, outlined this year in…

Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clarify what kind of legal notice their clients, alleged Tren de Aragua members, should receive before they are deported under the Alien Enemies Act. The attorneys provided what they described as a “startling list of deficiencies” in the notices they believed…

Immigration attorneys are scrambling to seek emergency relief from a federal court in Texas after learning that Venezuelan migrants detained there received notices that they are subject to President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation issued last month. Two migrants say in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union that they and others…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawsuit has put a spotlight on a handful of words and phrases that have become key points of contention in the closely watched and fast-moving dispute over his deportation. The court and the Trump administration are at odds over the definition of “facilitate,” while other buzz terms in the case of Abrego…

A judge on Wednesday found probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt, saying they violated his orders last month by not returning planes of Venezuelan migrants whom the administration rushed to deport on March 15. “The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity…

Attorney General Pam Bondi escalated the Trump administration’s dispute with Maine on Wednesday, announcing a lawsuit over the state’s decision to continue allowing boys to compete in girls sports. Bondi said during a press conference flanked by young female athletes, including activist Riley Gaines, that the legal action was a result of the state defying…

GREENBELT, Maryland — A judge said Tuesday during a court hearing in Greenbelt that she will permit the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to rapidly seek evidence of steps the government has taken to return him from El Salvador, including by deposing four Trump administration officials. Xinis said she planned to operate on a “tight…

Two members of federal government boards asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to let them keep their jobs, at least for now, after President Donald Trump fired them without cause as part of his efforts to dissolve the autonomy of independent government entities. Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris of…