What has moved in the federal courts lately, and where I covered it. Every item links straight to the case, its docket, and the plain-English breakdown. For live Supreme Court rulings, see Opinions; for the full list, the case tracker.
About 215 Democratic members of Congress sued President Trump under the Foreign Emoluments Clause, arguing he accepted benefits from foreign governments through his businesses without asking Congress for consent. The dis…
The Trump administration began dismantling federal civil service protections in early 2025, pushing agencies to terminate probationary employees without cause and reclassifying tens of thousands of workers under executiv…
When Defense Secretary Hegseth issued directives in October 2025 to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard, Oregon went to federal court arguing the administration lacked authority to pull state Guard units into…
A coalition of nonprofit organizations and local governments sued the Trump administration in March 2025 after the Environmental Protection Agency froze and then terminated grants that Congress had funded through the Inf…
The American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump administration over President Trump's Executive Order which aims to rescind collective bargaining agreements signed under the Biden administration.
5 individuals stopped or arrested during immigration raids, represented by the ACLU, sued the Department of Homeland Security over the alleged use of race or ethnicity by U.S. Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration …
A coalition of states sued the Trump administration over the requirement that states agree to assist with federal immigration enforcement before they can access Victims of Crime Act funds, which help states provides reso…
Seventeen transgender members of the U.S. Air Force or Space Force sued the United States over the rescission of their retirement orders.
Rep. Joyce Beatty sued the Trump administration over the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to include Donald Trump's name against congressional statute.
The state of Minnesota and cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sued the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and Border Patrol over the increase in deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents from numerous agenc…
The League of Women Voters sued the Trump administration over the new executive order titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections," which purports to exert federal control over election a…
Journalist and attorney Katie Phang sued Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the DOJ's failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Public Law 119-38), which Congress passed nearly unanimously and Pres…
The American Bar Association sued the Executive Office of the President and dozens of federal agency heads in June 2025, challenging what its complaint calls the administration's "Law Firm Intimidation Policy." The compl…
The Trump administration built an ICE detention facility in Florida's Everglades, on 96% wetlands adjacent to Big Cypress National Preserve and habitat for the endangered Florida panther, without conducting any environme…
A challenge to President Trump's Executive Order 14160, which sought to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or only temporarily present. CASA, the Asylum Seeker…
A coalition of states sued the Trump administration over the delays in the approval of National Institute of Health grant applications and terminations of already-issued grants.
The government's Fourth Circuit appeal (No. 25-1404) from Judge Paula Xinis's order directing it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the government removed to El Salvador in March 2025 in violation of …
2 non citizens currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, on behalf of a proposed class, sued the Trump administration over the government's detention of civil immigrant detainees at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantánamo Ba…
A coalition of states sued the Department of Justice over the revocation of exemptions that allows undocumented individuals to access domestic violence shelters, soup kitchens, and other federal funded social services pr…
A coalition of states sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its demand that states turn over the personal information of SNAP applicants and recipients.
The government appealed Senior United States District Judge McGowan Currie's orders granting Comey and James' motions to dismiss which also found that Lindsey Halligan's appointment to serve as U.S. attorney was unlawful…
On August 18, 2026, The Walt Disney Company, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC), and ABC's eight owned-and-operated television stations sued the Federal Communications Commission and its commissioners in the U.S…
Twenty-two Republican-led states, together with coal and oil industry groups and a parallel suit brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Mining Association, and the Busines…
Government transparency nonprofit American Oversight sued the DOJ seeking a court order compelling expedited processing of two FOIA requests targeting Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's official communications about …
A putative class of U.S.-born children and their parents challenged President Trump's January 2025 Executive Order limiting birthright citizenship, arguing it violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Joseph N. Laplante (…
5 federal government employees sued OPM, acting OPM Director Ezell, the Treasury Department, and Treasury Secretary Bessent over the access granted to DOGE-affiliated employees of their personal information. Plaintiffs a…
The League of United Latin American Citizens sued the Trump administration over President Trump's elections executive order which purports to regulate federal elections by directing the Election Assistance Commission to …
The government appealed Judge Vargas's opinion granting a preliminary injunction that prevents the DOGE team from accessing the Bureau of Financial Service payment services.
Anthropic's parallel challenge in the D.C. Circuit to the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act designation. Filed same day as the N.D. Cal. case (March 9, 2026). Claims: pretextual First Amendment retaliation, F…
Yemeni nationals and TPS holders sued the Department of Homeland Security, challenging Secretary Noem's cancellation of temporary protected status for Yemen.
United States v. Navarro is the federal criminal contempt of Congress prosecution of Peter Navarro, a former White House trade adviser to President Trump, for defying a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investi…
United States v. Mangione (25-cr-00176, S.D.N.Y.) is the federal prosecution of Luigi Mangione for the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel. Mangione faces federal charges…
President Trump sued the BBC in his personal capacity over the Panorama documentary "Trump: A Second Chance," first broadcast October 28, 2024, one week before the 2024 election. The complaint alleges the BBC spliced tog…
Donald Trump's defamation suit against The New York Times, filed in the Middle District of Florida before Judge Steven D. Merryday. The suit, which seeks roughly $15 billion, challenges the paper's reporting on his finan…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's habeas case before Judge Paula Xinis in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (No. 8:25-cv-02780). After the government removed him to El Salvador in 2025 in violation of a 2019 orde…
A challenge to the Trump administration's freeze and dismantling of U.S. foreign assistance, before Judge Amir H. Ali in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 1:25-cv-00402). The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy…
17 states sued the Trump administration over the termination of Department of Education grants that Congress had authorized to address the teaching shortage across the country.
The Trump administration sued Virginia over a state law which allows undocumented immigrants residing in Virginia to qualify for reduced tuition at public colleges.
Anthropic, the maker of the AI assistant Claude, sued the Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) and other federal officials after the government moved to blacklist the company, before Judge Rita F. Lin i…
Temporary Protected Status exists because Congress recognized that deporting people to countries in active crisis undermines stability rather than resolving it -- the protection is supposed to stay until conditions impro…
