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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...
Federal courts have produced a fractured body of law about -protection">Customs and Border Protection (CBP) activity beyond the agency’s regulatory “zone”: precedent gives CBP broad authority at the b...
The has drawn several bright and shadowed lines that determine when protected, “peaceful” ends and lawful government intervention becomes permissible: most centrally the incitement standard from (spee...
Federal appellate courts have repeatedly recognized a right to record law-enforcement officers performing their public duties, but the doctrine has been shaped by a patchwork of decisions that allow r...
-programs-and-regulations">Federal law imposes specific retention and preservation duties for many federal-election records—most prominently a 22‑month retention requirement codified in 52 U.S.C. §207...
The most consequential constraints on ’s use of administrative warrants to enter homes come from a mix of precedents that favor judicial warrants for home entry and recent lower‑court rulings that hav...
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...
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...
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...
Federal courts since 2021 have delivered a patchwork of outcomes for employees fired for refusing : many district and circuit judges upheld private and healthcare employer mandates, blocked broad work...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Since 2024, a string of high-profile rulings and appellate patterns have illustrated the durable imprint of judges appointed by : ’s conservative majority consolidated doctrinal shifts on executive po...
Federal and state courts have repeatedly split over challenges to bans on : lower courts and several circuits have constrained the ’s effort to withhold grants from , the largely upheld a state ban, s...
created a temporary, discretionary shield from deportation and work-authorization for eligible young people starting in 2012, changing how many undocumented immigrants could avoid removal without goin...