A coalition of 26 states and the District of Columbia has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of Management and Budget, claiming the agencies unlawfully suspended Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments for November despite having the funds to maintain them. Filed October 28... Read More »
A federal judge in California has indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown, converting an earlier temporary order into a broader preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued the decision Tuesday in San Francisco, finding that the administration’s plan to eliminate thousands... Read More »
A Washington, D.C. resident has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his constitutional rights were violated after he was detained for peacefully protesting the National Guard’s deployment in the city. The complaint, filed on October 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was brought by Sam O’Hara... Read More »
The State of Arizona and Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva have sued the U.S. House of Representatives and Speaker Mike Johnson, claiming that the Speaker has no constitutional authority to delay swearing in a duly elected member whose qualifications are not in question. The lawsuit, filed on October 21 in the U.S.... Read More »
A federal judge in California has ordered TikTok to turn over a limited set of internal records connected to a content creator on its platform. The order is part of the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability multidistrict litigation, which combines hundreds of lawsuits against some of the largest... Read More »
A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs of federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown, in what is the first judicial order to restrain the White House’s effort to downsize the federal workforce during a funding lapse. U.S. District Judge Susan... Read More »
Former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges accusing him of unlawfully sharing and storing classified national defense information. The indictment claims Bolton used personal email accounts to send top secret material to family members and kept sensitive government... Read More »
President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Representative George Santos, releasing the New York Republican three months after he began serving time for federal fraud and identity theft convictions. The announcement, made on Friday on Trump’s Truth Social account, brought an abrupt end to Santos’s seven-year term... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Infowars founder and media personality Alex Jones, who sought to overturn a $1.4 billion defamation judgment over his claim that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. The Court’s order, issued on October 14, 2025, came without written... Read More »
A lawsuit filed by federal employee unions to stop the Trump administration from using a government shutdown to fire thousands of workers has escalated into an emergency legal battle after the White House confirmed that layoffs have begun. The American Federation of Government Employees, two of its California locals, and... Read More »
A former Wyoming library director who opposed efforts to restrict access to books with sexual and LGBTQ+ themes will receive $700,000 in a settlement with county officials, ending a two-year legal dispute over her firing. Terri Lesley led the Campbell County Public Library System in Gillette until 2023, when she... Read More »
A federal judge in Rhode Island has barred the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development from enforcing new federal grant conditions that restrict funding for programs connected to diversity, equity, inclusion, gender identity, or abortion-related services. In a decision issued on October 10, 2025,... Read More »
A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on bank fraud and false statement charges linked to a 2020 real estate purchase, a case she and her attorneys claim was advanced under political pressure from the White House. The indictment, filed October 9 in... Read More »
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has overturned a Department of Health and Human Services policy that placed new limits on federally funded teen pregnancy prevention programs, finding that the agency acted unlawfully. In a 65-page decision issued on October 7, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that HHS... Read More »
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, a case testing whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment. The law bars licensed therapists from attempting to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, and the justices are weighing whether that restriction... Read More »
