Author: Ashley Oliver

The Trump administration told a court on Monday it does not have the ability to retrieve a man it mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran prison, capping off a three-day string of defiant court filings in an intensifying case about Kilmar Abrego Gacia’s removal. The administration’s submission to the court came in response to an order…

Department of Justice attorneys told a judge in Virginia on Wednesday evening that they wanted to drop a case they brought against the alleged MS-13 leader of the East Coast, rather than move forward with prosecuting him. The move came after top DOJ officials held a large press conference last month alongside Gov. Glenn Youngkin…

Two federal judges granted nearly simultaneous orders Wednesday that temporarily blocked Alien Enemies Act deportations in parts of Texas and New York, rulings that come days after the Supreme Court weighed in on the Trump administration’s use of the law. Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, halted deportations in two counties in south Texas…

The Department of Justice announced Monday it planned to withdraw a lawsuit it brought during the Biden administration challenging Georgia’s sweeping election reform bill, marking the strongest shift yet away from the Biden DOJ’s election-related legal activity. The DOJ’s move to end the litigation in Georgia came after it also terminated election lawsuits in Virginia,…

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court this week to intervene in a case brought by eight blue states over federal funding, marking one of the latest moves by the White House to defend in court its efforts to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion. President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice told the high court a…

MANASSAS, Virginia — Top Department of Justice officials revealed Thursday they arrested the alleged East Coast leader of the MS-13 gang, a transnational criminal group notorious for engaging in violence and drug trafficking. “Early this morning, one of the top leaders of MS-13 was apprehended,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the FBI field office…

President Donald Trump has seen little success with district court judges as he faces dozens of lawsuits, but higher courts have, on a few occasions, tempered the controversial restraining orders and injunctions weighing down the White House. Trump’s deluge of executive actions, aiming to shrink the executive branch at warp speed, has been met with…

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is working to fend off possible contempt in a case involving alleged Venezuelan gang members, a heated fight happening parallel to a broader court battle over whether the president has authority to deport them under a wartime law. The possibility that Judge James Boasberg could hold Trump administration officials in contempt arose from the DOJ…

Rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s top aides and allies toward unfriendly judges has reached a peak, but the Department of Justice has so far maintained deference toward the courts in its filings and hearings. The DOJ issued its most aggressive legal pushback yet on Wednesday when it argued in a motion that Judge James Boasberg’s…

The Trump administration is invoking rarely used authorities to remove some noncitizens from the United States, laying the groundwork for the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the controversial actions are legal. President Donald Trump has framed his actions as efforts to root out noncitizens who support terrorists and banish members of notoriously violent gangs, but outside groups and lawyers…