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Showing posts with label federal judge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal judge. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Federal judge halts Big Bend border wall construction in blow to Trump agenda
Plan to install barriers through popular national park sparked outrage from advocates and politicians alike…
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Federal court rejects Trump administration order keeping Michigan coal plant open | PBS News
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year...
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Judge again rejects Trump’s bid to move criminal hush money case to federal court - POLITICO
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein is a blow to Trump’s attempt to effectively erase the prosecution altogether by suggesting it wrongly wrongly punished him for official acts he took as president during his first term. But Hellerstein concluded that Trump’s payments, routed through attorney Michael Cohen to Daniels, were entirely “private” conduct, not related to his presidency...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/28/trump-new-york-hush-money-case-ruling
Federal judge again halts Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting in midterms
Talwani wrote in her ruling: “Plaintiff states have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms.”…
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Federal Judges Criticize Trump’s Justice Department for “Unethical” Conduct — ProPublica
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word…
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Mystery Freedom Fuel stations that sold discounted gasoline tied to NFL coach and commodities trader - POLITICO
A federal judge entered judgment in February in favor of a fuel distributor that alleged in a civil lawsuit that Kazmi’s company had taken roughly $667,000 worth of fuel over 10 days in August 2021 without fully paying for it. Kazmi denied the allegations, but the court entered a default judgment after what the judge described as the defendants and their lawyers’ “serial flouting of Court orders and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure” during the case.
In a separate federal case, a judge ruled in January that Kazmi’s company had failed to pay more than $700,000 in rent at 17 stations it operated in Florida and that the franchisor lawfully terminated franchise agreements. Kazmi argued that his company had been unable to pay the rent because the franchisor withheld credit-card proceeds during a contract dispute…
Federal judge asks Michigan high court to weigh in on limiting state civil rights law
The lawsuit was filed by the anti-abortion rights organization Right to Life of Michigan. The legal action claims the recently adopted provision of Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act places the organization in an impossible position. The provision forbids discrimination in hiring or promotion based on exercising the right to have an abortion...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Judge accuses Trump of manipulating courts to justify Anti-Weaponization Fund - POLITICO
“This lawsuit was not brought to vindicate rights; it was brought to manipulate the judicial process,” U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams wrote in a blistering 56-page ruling. “This was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/13/trump-irs-lawsuit-judge-00994874
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Federal judge strikes down HUD’s homelessness policy shift - POLITICO
U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy for the District of Rhode Island, a Trump appointee, wrote in her decision that “the administrative record demonstrates HUD’s failure to consider the harm caused by the funding gaps it created when attempting to eliminate the Housing First approach on an accelerated timeline” and that HUD’s issuance of the policy changes constitutes “arbitrary and capricious action.”…
McElroy said in her decision that the actions HUD took to “hastily” eliminate the housing first approach in its fiscal 2025 program funding “serve as the hallmark of unreasoned decision making.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/hud-homelessness-policy-ruling-00981804
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Doge slashing of humanities grants in 2025 ruled biased and unconstitutional
US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/doge-humanities-grants-unconstitutional
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking personal details about Rhode Island voters | PBS News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit demanding detailed voter data from Rhode Island, a decision that follows similar rulings in a handful of other states.
U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy sided with Rhode Island's top election officials and civil rights advocates, writing that federal law does not permit the U.S. Department of Justice "to conduct the kind of fishing expedition it seeks here."…
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Federal judge rules DHS illegally stripped immigration status from thousands who entered through CBP One : NPR
A federal judge in Boston Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration violated the law when it ended the immigration status of nearly 900,000 migrants who came to the U.S. through a Biden-era parole program called CBP One.
The program allowed migrants waiting in Mexico to schedule an interview to report to a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. After being vetted, they then were allowed into the country while waiting for their asylum claims to be heard in court...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Federal judge orders Trump pause construction on White House ballroom - POLITICO
The judge said work on the $400 million project must halt pending congressional authorization...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/trump-white-house-ballroom-lawsuit-order-00852455
Monday, February 2, 2026
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Federal judges allow California congressional map to stand - POLITICO
The victory for Democrats seemed likely after the Supreme Court earlier in the month upheld Texas' gerrymandered map…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/federal-judges-california-congressional-map-00729765
Monday, January 12, 2026
Federal judge blocks White House freeze of childcare subsidies in Democratic states
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot block federal money for childcare subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now...
Thursday, December 18, 2025
A Federal Judge Nominee Said Disabled People Shouldn’t Be Wed. In Fact, Many Can’t. – Mother Jones
On Wednesday, Justin Olson, a judicial nominee for the federal bench in the Southern District of Indiana, admitted that in a 2015 sermon, he had said marriage should not be for "our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we're called to."…
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
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