A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday declined to commit to lifting part of a preliminary injunction requiring President Donald Trump's administration to release funding for foreign aid work done before Feb. 13, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision does not change the analysis of his ruling.
A 20-state coalition hit the Trump administration with lawsuits Tuesday in Rhode Island federal court asking the court to stop the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation from conditioning billions of state grant dollars on enforcing the president's immigration agenda.
A Wisconsin federal grand jury on Tuesday returned a two-count indictment against the state judge arrested for allegedly helping an unauthorized immigrant evade arrest by federal immigration officers.
A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump can use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, but said notice currently being provided to individuals subject to removal was "constitutionally deficient."
One of New Jersey's most high-powered criminal defense attorneys is among a trio of litigators defending Newark Mayor Ras Baraka against charges related to his arrest last week at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the city.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
A Georgia federal judge has accepted a magistrate judge's recommendation that wiretap evidence be allowed into the prosecution of an alleged $200 million international forced labor scheme.
If the Internal Revenue Service revokes Harvard's tax-exempt status for violating established public policy — a position unsupported by currently available information — the precedent set by surviving the inevitable court challenge could undercut the autonomy and distinctiveness of the charitable sector, says Johnny Rex Buckles at Houston Law Center.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is terminating temporary protections for Afghan nationals, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Monday, saying that conditions in the country do not meet the requirements for a temporary protected status designation.
A D.C. federal judge rejected Monday a trio of immigration advocacy groups' request to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.