Washington — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court decision that required six agencies to reinstate more than 16,000 federal probationary workers who were terminated. The request for emergency relief from the Justice […]
Washington — The Supreme Court is set to consider Monday whether to leave in place Louisiana’s congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts and was used in the 2024 elections. The dispute is the latest involving claims of racial gerrymandering
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Washington — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing systems at the Social Security Administration containing the sensitive information of millions of Americans, delivering another setback to President Trump’s efforts to
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Washington — A federal judge on Wednesday declined to block the White House Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to take over the U.S. Institute of Peace while a legal challenge to President Trump’s actions targeting the nonprofit organization moves forward.
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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a new Defense Department policy barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes granted a request for a preliminary injunction sought by transgender active-duty
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Details on government staff reinstatement ruling Details on judge’s ruling that some government workers must be reinstated after mass firings 03:31 Washington — More than 24,000 workers at 18 federal agencies who were fired as part of President Trump’s efforts to
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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday found that Elon Musk and the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. U.S. District Judge Theodore
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Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday defending federal judges who have issued decisions against the Trump administration, saying that “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement” with a court’s decision. “For more than two
President Trump announced that tens of thousands of pages of the JFK assassination files would be released to the public Tuesday. “People have been waiting decades for this,” the president said of the release of files related to the assassination of
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Washington — President Trump claimed late Sunday that preemptive pardons former President Joe Biden granted to members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol are “void” and “vacant” because they were
