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The US Supreme Court has issued several major rulings affecting presidential executive actions from the Trump era, upholding some high-profile orders while narrowing or pausing others; recent decision...
Barnes v. Felix is a 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decision that rejected the Fifth Circuit’s narrow “moment-of-threat” rule and reaffirmed that Fourth Amendment excessive-force claims must be judged by the...
Federal immigration agents can sometimes be held civilly liable for shootings, but liability is constrained by complicated immunities, statutory pathways such as the Federal Tort Claims Act, and split...
DEI’s measurable beneficiaries vary by metric: corporate research and consulting pieces link improved financial performance and innovation to greater ethnic and gender diversity—McKinsey-style finding...
The available records do not produce a definitive count of “how many times” the Biden administration violated the First Amendment; instead they document a series of episodes, investigations, and court...
Lawsuits against President Obama’s expedited deportation and deferred-action policies included multi-state challenges that produced a nationwide injunction blocking major deferred-action expansions (D...
Courts and extensive reporting concluded that Biden administration officials engaged in coordinated efforts to influence social‑media moderation during the COVID pandemic, and federal judges enjoined ...
Courts reviewed several of President Barack Obama’s high-profile executive actions and produced mixed outcomes: most notably, federal courts blocked or limited his 2014–2015 immigration directives (DA...
Illegal (undocumented) noncitizens are generally prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law, but recent court decisions have produced conflicting results and legal debate about Second Amend...
The Texas Legislature’s 2025 congressional maps drew at least nine separate lawsuits alleging , and those challenges produced a complex, shifting litigation posture through 2025 and into 2026 with no ...
Multiple Biden administration policies have been litigated as unconstitutional, from immigration parole and asylum rules to COVID-era mandates, student loan relief, surveillance practices, and propose...
George Webb (investigative/citizen journalist) has attracted accusations of misinformation, on-air rebuttals from mainstream outlets, and claims of harassment and legal entanglements tied to his repor...
The U.S. military and federal courts rejected Calley’s "just following orders" defense: Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. was court-martialed, convicted in 1971 of premeditated murder for killing 22 ci...
Federal courts in 2022 and 2024 did not impose sweeping remedial redrawings of Texas maps; instead judges limited relief by denying or dismissing certain preliminary injunctions and claims, resolving ...
Federal and state court rulings between 2012 and 2024 repeatedly altered or attempted to alter Texas redistricting plans, producing a patchwork of decisions that affected congressional, state legislat...
Federal court challenges to Texas’s 2025 congressional map center on accusations that Republican-drawn lines , with plaintiffs saying the map breaks up majority-minority and “coalition” districts and ...
DACA provides temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to eligible people who arrived in the U.S. as children, thereby with employment, education, and some public benefits but . Re...
Since the most potent, court-tested defenses in federal denaturalization litigation have been the Supreme Court’s materiality/causation requirement announced in Maslenjak, the “qualification-for-citiz...
Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...
The Fifth Circuit’s handling of City of El Cenizo v. Texas clarified that a state may mandate local cooperation with ICE detainer requests in some circumstances, upholding much of Texas’s SB4 and stay...