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  • Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities

    Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities

    Litigation Reports 04/22/2025

    A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, saying that portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders were unc...

  • HK defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry

    HK defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry

    Litigation Reports 04/13/2025

    Hong Kong’s government on Monday defended its immigration procedures after a British member of parliament was denied entry to the Chinese city last week, an incident that has prompted concerns among U.K. officials.Wera Hobhouse, a member of the...

  • Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal

    Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal

    Litigation Reports 04/08/2025

    A former Conservative lawmaker and 14 others have been charged with cheating when placing bets on the timing of Britain’s general election last year, the Gambling Commission said Monday.Craig Williams was one of several people who had been inve...

  • Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

    Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

    Litigation Reports 03/07/2025

    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.By a 5-4 vote, the court’s co...

  • Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come

    Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come

    Litigation Reports 02/23/2025

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists President Donald Trump ’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is op...

  • Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

    Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

    Litigation Reports 02/20/2025

    Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, sparking confusion across key agencies as billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the size of federal ...

  • Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Litigation Reports 02/13/2025

    Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”Spared from jail as part of a plea...

  • A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    Litigation Reports 01/27/2025

    A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first h...

  • Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

    Litigation Reports 01/18/2025

    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...

  • Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds

    Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds

    Litigation Reports 01/14/2025

    At a time of heightened political division, Americans’ confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record low of 35% this year, according to a new Gallup poll.The United States saw a sharp drop of 24 percentage p...

  • Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case

    Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case

    Litigation Reports 01/05/2025

    President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone ...

  • Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on US-Mexico border

    Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on US-Mexico border

    Litigation Reports 11/28/2024

    A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass, which has become the center of the state’s aggressive measures to curb migrant cro...