Author: Ashley Oliver

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Conservatives have long had their sights set on revisiting a Supreme Court case that set a high bar for public officials to prove the media defamed them, but President Donald Trump’s return to power has put a spotlight on this key press protection. The Right’s interest in changing the New York Times v. Sullivan precedent…