Court deals first blow to Trump’s coal rescue campaign - POLITICO

“DOE needs to stay in its lane and use its emergency powers only in actual emergencies,” Lenoff said in a statement following the ruling.

 “Preventing the market-driven retirements of coal plants to advance a coal-friendly agenda is not a proper use of emergency powers,” he said. “We will continue to challenge unlawful orders if DOE persists in issuing them.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/11/court-deals-first-blow-to-trumps-coal-rescue-campaign-01072134

The child safety trial against Meta kicks off in federal court : NPR

"Meta's business model can be summed up in four simple words: 'hook' the users, 'hold' them for as long as they can, 'harvest' their data, and then 'hide' the truth from the public when making public statements," California Deputy Attorney General Megan O'Neill said in her opening statement. 

 "It was especially bad for kids," she said…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5935458/meta-child-safety-social-media-addiction-trial-opening

 

Claims of prosecutor misconduct spread at federal courthouse

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kv-mOAE56NI

Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans - POLITICO

The three-judge panel blocked the state from reimplementing its 2023 congressional maps they found as “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/alabama-redistricting-2026-election-order-00935834

HUGE Legal Win in Arkansas!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4d_mIChI02I

 

Federal court rejects GOP bid to block new Utah congressional map, likely netting Dems a seat - POLITICO

The three-judge panel decided Monday that it was too late to redraw the state's congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/23/utah-redistricting-court-ruling-2026-midterms-00793377 

 

Trump asks federal court to hit pause on abortion pill case, citing ongoing study - POLITICO

The administration argues the lawsuit may be "unnecessary" since the FDA may impose the restrictions Louisiana wants of its own volition...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/trump-asks-federal-court-to-hit-pause-on-abortion-pill-case-citing-ongoing-study-00750658 

 

‘A win for humanity’: Trump’s asylum ban at US-Mexico border ruled unlawful | US immigration | The Guardian

A federal court has ruled that Donald Trump's proclamation of an "invasion" at the US-Mexico border is unlawful, saying that the president had exceeded his authority in suspending the right to apply for asylum at the southern border...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/trump-us-mexico-border-immigrants-asylum 

 

US federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

The other was filed by a dozen US states, led by Oregon. "This ruling reaffirms that our laws matter, and that trade decisions can't be made on the president's whim," said the Oregon attorney general, Dan Rayfield. 

The plaintiffs in the tariff lawsuit argued that the emergency powers law did not give the president the power to apply tariffs, and even if it had done, the trade deficit did not qualify as an emergency, which is defined as an "unusual and extraordinary threat". The US has run a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 49 consecutive years...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/us-court-blocks-trump-tariffs

 

Alabama ‘purposely’ diluted Black votes with congressional plan, court finds | CNN Politics

A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme Court, repeatedly rejected maps with just one such district…

 https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/alabama-congressional-plan-court-ruling

Trump dealt DREADED news by NEW federal court

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ODbZXiTzU

 

Trump makes DEVASTATING mistake in federal court

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45UNblGHLG

 

Federal Court Issues HUGE Ruling in Trump/Musk Election SCHEME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnytI41gE4k

Republicans in Congress want to pass law to help Trump’s criminal defense

"Conservatives want a floor vote on a bill that would allow current or former presidents to move any state case brought against them — such as the one in New York that resulted in Trump's conviction — to federal court, according to multiple House Republican sources."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-bill-mind-help-trumps-criminal-defense-rcna155849

Court rejects parents’ attempt to opt kids out of LGBTQ-inclusive reading assignments | The Hill

In August 2023, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman found that the parents were unlikely to succeed on the merits and denied their request to keep the policy in place while the case proceeds. She found that they failed to show that the lack of an opt-out policy would result in the "indoctrination of their children" or "coerce their children to violate or change their religious beliefs." 

"The parents still may instruct their children on their religious beliefs regarding sexuality, marriage, and gender, and each family may place contrary views in its religious context," Boardman wrote in the order last year. 

"No government action prevents the parents from freely discussing the topics raised in the storybooks with their children or teaching their children as they wish," she added...

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4667019-court-rejects-parents-attempt-to-opt-kids-out-of-lgbtq-inclusive-reading-assignments/

Alabama GOP Legislature Gets BLISTERING REBUKE in Ruling From Federal Court

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSdZePivtIs

The federal court decision affecting homeless tent encampments in America - Vox

"The government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter," the court declared…

https://www.vox.com/23748522/tent-encampments-martin-boise-homelessness-housing

Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head - The New York Times

The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/business/free-speech-social-media-lawsuit.html

How lawyers from Jones Day influenced Trump's Supreme Court picks : NPR

Jones Day was the law firm that basically ended the eviction moratorium during the pandemic that the Biden administration had imposed. And Jones Day, just reading the tea leaves and talking to their lawyers now, it's quite clear that they are plotting a wide range of attacks on the power of the federal government to oversee private businesses and private companies in a way that goes back to Don McGahn and his colleagues' hatred of the so-called administrative state. And they are now in a position to be able to much more forcefully advocate those positions and be successful in their advocacy — thanks to all of the judges that Trump, at McGahn's direction and with McConnell's support, managed to get on to virtually every federal court in the country…

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122536384/trump-lawyers-jones-day-servants-of-the-damned-david-enrich

Opinion | The federal court ruling blocking Texas’s abortion law is a marvel - The Washington Post

… Wow. What just happened here? First, Pitman's ruling makes a mockery of the Supreme Court's thin argument that the law was so "complex" that the court couldn't possibly agree to issue an injunction on an emergency basis. There is nothing complex — or constitutional — about Texas's scheme to set up bounties for those who seek abortions. 

Second, Pitman lays bare the deceitful crafting of a bill that seeks to rob people of their constitutional rights. And unlike the Supreme Court, he is not willing to play along with a ruse that would emasculate federal courts. Apparently, he has more institutional reverence for the federal judiciary than do the right-wing Supreme Court justices who allowed state lawmakers to skirt around the courts...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/federal-court-ruling-blocking-texass-abortion-law-is-marvel/