Author: Kaelan Deese

President Donald Trump has once again floated the possibility of returning to the White House for a third term, and legal scholars are debating whether a constitutional loophole could make it possible. “A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday when asked about running again. “I’m not…

On Monday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to halt a sweeping lower court order requiring six federal agencies to reinstate over 16,000 recently terminated probationary employees immediately. “DOJ just took to the Supreme Court a single district judge’s order forcing the reinstatement of 16,000 probationary employees,” Chad Mizelle, chief of staff to the Justice Department,…

As President Donald Trump faces setbacks dealt by federal courts in his efforts to reassert executive power, he has seen some early success in at least one area: his ability to remove the heads of independent agencies. Trump scored a critical legal victory in his campaign to reshape independent federal agencies when the U.S. Court…

President Donald Trump has had enough of federal district court judges issuing sweeping blockades against his second-term agenda. Legal battles over the Trump administration‘s executive actions have repeatedly played out in strategically chosen courts, where judges have issued nationwide injunctions against several of his key policies. The Trump Department of Justice took precise aim against nationwide injunctions on…

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump lacked the authority to remove a Democratic member from the Federal Labor Relations Authority, ordering that Susan Tsui Grundmann be reinstated to her post. The decision by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., is a blow to Trump’s broader efforts to assert control…

The country’s leading federal judicial policymaking body urged Congress on Tuesday to approve 71 new lower court judgeships to ease mounting caseloads, which renewed a bipartisan push for additional seats after former President Joe Biden vetoed a similar effort last year. The Judicial Conference of the United States, which develops policy for the federal courts, recommended that…

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected New York City’s request to temporarily prevent the Trump administration from reclaiming over $80 million in federal reimbursement funds originally allocated for migrant shelter and services. The city’s Law Department, under Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, asked for a preliminary injunction ordering the federal government to hand over funds and…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in a landmark case brought by the government of Mexico against Smith & Wesson and other United States-based gun manufacturers, seeking to hold them liable for cartel violence south of the border. Mexico argues that U.S. gunmakers knowingly aid and abet the illegal trafficking of firearms…

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Indiana University’s use of a “bias response team,” prompting a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas, who argued the case was an important opportunity to resolve a split among federal courts over whether such programs infringe on student free speech rights. Bias response teams, which…