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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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 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...
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...
Federal appellate decisions in 2024–25 have repeatedly upheld broad MDLEA jurisdiction — including over stateless vessels and actions in exclusive economic zones — and courts and commentators note tha...
The Trump administration filed emergency appeals seeking to block a federal judge’s order that it fully fund November SNAP benefits during the 2025 government shutdown; the U.S. Supreme Court temporar...
Legal fights connected to persons named Webb have had measurable effects in two different arenas: litigation outcomes have reshaped legal precedent around data-breach standing (the First Circuit’s Web...