"The Department of Justice is dropping its appeals of cases that struck down President Donald Trump's executive orders punishing law firms, per multiple reports, officially marking a defeat of the president's vindictive campaign to cow law firms into obedience."…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-firm-executive-order_n_69a5f8fae4b033a045361eef
Group of activists, who range in age from seven to 25, include plaintiffs who won landmark climate case in Montana two years ago…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/young-climate-activists-lawsuit-trump-fossil-fuels
States argued US transportation secretary lacks authority to impose conditions on funding appropriated by Congress…
President Trump wants to reframe how the country's stories are told. But historians are pushing back, saying the administration's actions amount to an attack on core institutions — and on history itself...
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5389638/trump-executive-actions-american-history-culture
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/obama-harris-rebuke-trump/index.html
"The President has no power to do any of this," the state attorneys general wrote in court documents. "The Elections EO is unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American."…
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/states-sue-block-trumps-election-order-violation/
The US president is testing the limits of executive authority, sidelining Congress and enriching allies while destabilising the global economy…
President Donald Trump has declared an all-out war on congressional power. And his allies on Capitol Hill aren't doing much to fend off the invasion...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/trump-gop-leaders-congress-power-assault-00002129
Jeffries and his leadership team are calling on all rank-and-file Democrats to stage "a day of action" this week, while the House is in recess. And lawmakers said they're already taking that message to heart, staging town halls with voters and Zoom calls with advocacy groups to warn against what they see as a dire threat to America's democratic traditions.
In blue districts, that might mean preaching largely to the choir. But Huffman, for one, said he's planning to step into more hostile territory to deliver the message.
"I had a jam-packed town hall last night — I'm going to be doing more of them," he said. "But I am looking at going into the Republican parts of my district to show what a wrecking ball this federal spending freeze is for the very people in communities who think Trump cares about them."…
"This order hijacks federal money used to level the playing field for poor and disadvantaged kids and hands it directly to unaccountable private operators," she said in a statement...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/29/trump-education-orders-indoctrination-school-choice-antisemitism/
Experts say 'everything is basically in chaos' and warn of disruption to sectors such as health, infrastructure and tax …
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/us-government-trump-orders
