Your fact-checks will appear here
Federal appellate court
Federal courts have put temporary or permanent blocks on multiple Trump administration executive actions in 2025 — including injunctions or stays against a passport sex-entry policy, parts of an elect...
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...
An IP address tied to a phone can be an important investigative lead but—according to multiple legal analyses and defense-oriented writings—it is rarely sufficient on its own to secure a criminal conv...
Noncitizens on U.S. soil are entitled to protections under the Fifth Amendment: courts and advocates say the Due Process Clause applies to “persons,” not citizens only, and that enforcement practices ...
Federal appellate courts have largely recognized a First Amendment right to observe and record law enforcement in public, but they also draw lines where recording becomes criminal obstruction—principa...
Since January 2025, federal courts have produced a mixed but consequential body of rulings on and related detention policies: initially blocked categorical terminations and ordered class protections a...
The federal circuits are sharply divided over whether and when border agents may conduct warrantless forensic searches of travelers’ electronic devices: some courts treat device searches as routine at...
A string of federal rulings has both checked and allowed parts of the ’s effort to rework funding: a federal district court found unlawful and ordered reinstatements, the temporarily allowed the admin...
The Supreme Court issued a temporary administrative stay that paused a lower-court order requiring full November SNAP payments, granting the Trump administration short-term relief while an appeals cou...
Federal law makes : undocumented immigrants and many nonimmigrant visa holders are barred from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), while lawful permanent residents and some other aliens can ...
Multiple federal district courts issued preliminary injunctions in 2025 in cases styled challenging , and at least one of those injunctions was appealed to , which affirmed in part, vacated in part as...
Federal courts since 2010 have repeatedly constrained the practical power of , finding that detainers are non‑mandatory requests, that holding someone beyond their release can constitute a new, warran...
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...
“Jane Doe v. Trump” is not a single case but a label used in multiple distinct lawsuits against Donald J. Trump and his administration across years; the record through 2025 therefore contains several ...
Federal appellate courts are split: several circuits have held that a single, egregious utterance of the N‑word can be enough to send a Title VII claim to a jury, while others treat a lone slur as a n...
Federal trial courts in multiple jurisdictions — including , and — enjoined enforcement of ’s birthright citizenship executive order, finding it likely violated the and related statutes; a federal app...
Discovery in (anti‑SLAPP) litigation is the fault line between competing texts: many state anti‑SLAPP statutes pause or limit discovery to let courts resolve threshold motions quickly, but federal cou...
There is no single “” court that can be named for November 2025 because multiple distinct lawsuits captioned v. Trump have been filed in different federal and state courts over the years; each active ...
litigation strategy on large-capacity magazine ban in 2024–2026 was shaped decisively by other circuits’ rulings and by the en banc Ninth’s own shift toward a more flexible analogical review; advocate...
Federal courts since 2017 have produced a fractured body of decisions about conditioning federal grants on compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1373: multiple district courts struck down the Administration’s co...