Author: Jack Birle

  • Trump census proposal faces legal headwinds

    President Donald Trump has called for a ‘new’ and ‘highly accurate’ census, but he will likely have to wait for a new nationwide survey to be lawfully conducted. The Census occurs every 10 years to reapportion congressional districts and count the U.S. population, with the most recent tally occurring in 2020. Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday that…


  • Friction with courts slowing key Trump policies

    The Trump administration has faced renewed friction with courts as it seeks to implement its agenda, causing headaches for the Justice Department and the rest of the administration. While President Donald Trump‘s administration has faced slowdowns and setbacks in the federal courts since returning to office in January, a recent string of orders and actions…


  • Supreme Court will examine racial redistricting law as other states consider new maps

    The Supreme Court will rehear arguments about the Louisiana congressional map, which could have wider ramifications for other states’ maps as mid-decade redistricting is thrust into the spotlight. The high court on Friday requested briefs from the parties in Louisiana v. Callais, a case about whether the state’s “intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional…


  • Trump’s tariff face major test before federal appeals court

    President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs will be at the heart of a legal drama on Thursday when a federal appeals court weighs his authority to levy them via executive action. The full panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a May…


  • Supreme Court’s emergency docket orders frustrate liberal justices

    The Supreme Court typically takes its time when deciding cases, but the Left’s flurry of lawsuits against the Trump administration has filled up the high court’s emergency docket and forced the justices to issue consequential emergency orders, frustrating some of the liberal justices. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have expressed increasing…


  • Courts still finding ways to issue sweeping injunctions month after Supreme Court ruling

    The Supreme Court issued its ruling limiting nationwide injunctions in a case about President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order a month ago, but courts are still finding ways to issue sweeping injunctions. As lower courts continue to navigate the various lawsuits regarding Trump’s birthright citizenship order, which is poised to return to the Supreme Court…


  • Supreme Court allows Trump to fire three Dem-appointed CPSC members

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to fire three Democratic-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission as litigation continues in lower courts, months after the justices allowed Trump’s firing of two other independent agency heads to proceed. The order, decided by a 6-3 majority, stayed a lower court’s order, which ruled…


  • Trump faces continued legal fights over firing independent agency heads

    President Donald Trump‘s bids to replace a litany of independent agency heads have prompted legal challenges from the Left, which could end up with the Supreme Court revisiting a 90-year-old precedent related to the president’s firing power. Since Trump returned to the White House in January, the president and his administration have aggressively worked to…


  • Democratic states sue Trump administration over axed disaster prevention funds

    The Trump administration faces another legal challenge from Democrat-led states over cutting federal grants. Several states filed a lawsuit Wednesday over the cancellation of disaster prevention funds. A coalition of 19 state attorneys general, all Democrats, and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeking…


  • Supreme Court to hear challenges to bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports

    The Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear a pair of cases over the constitutionality of state laws banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. The high court will hear arguments in Little v. Hecox and B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education in the upcoming term, with the justices wading into whether…


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