WATCH: Justice Department files complaint against judges over immigration enforcement surge comments | PBS News

The complaint alleges the seven judges — nominated by Democrats and Republican presidents — violated judicial ethics by speaking to The New York Times about their experience dealing with a flood of cases during last winter's Operation Metro Surge crackdown that led to thousands of arrests in the Twin Cities…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-justice-department-files-complaint-against-judges-over-immigration-enforcement-surge-comments

 

Judges Keep Striking Down Climate Laws. Some States Are Fighting Back. – Mother Jones

Hollins, who introduced and co-sponsored Minnesota’s superfund bill earlier this year, told me that Minnesotans could face $20 billion or more in climate-related costs by 2040. “That’s roughly a third of our state’s current budget,” she said. Her state’s superfund legislation would charge major polluters for damages to bridges, roads, and buildings caused by greenhouse gas emissions. That money would pay for natural disaster recovery, infrastructure projects, and public health efforts linked to pollution. 

Infrastructures costs, Hollins notes, are inevitably going to rise. “So is it taxpayers who are going to pay for it?” she asks. “Or is it billionaires?”

 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/09/climate-superfund-new-york-supreme-court-suncor-boulder/

 

‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: ICE’s detention crackdown swamps the courts - POLITICO

The flood of cases has stretched the judiciary to a breaking point across the country. Thousands of rulings, from hundreds of judges rushing to respond to the individual cases in front of them, have added up to an overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s unprecedented policy.

 “The third branch of government is saying no. We’re not going to do it this way,” U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said in an interview…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/10/ice-detentions-trump-administration-01027440 

Trump’s inexperienced federal prosecutors are running into trouble in court - POLITICO

“This administration seems to think of U.S. attorneys as messenger boys for the president and his people at the top of the Justice Department, rather than independent actors of substance,” said Dan Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and former federal prosecutor… 

In recent months, the lack of prosecutorial experience by some Trump-selected U.S. attorneys has had serious consequences...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/us-attorneys-trump-administration-00960728  

The rightwing campaign to control how US judges view the climate crisis

As cities and states sue big oil for billions in damages over allegations that it covered up the dangers of its products, rightwing organizations are attempting to discredit the wave of litigation. They claim the lawyers behind it are teaming up with an environmentally focused legal education non-profit to bias federal judges against oil companies. 

But it is actually fossil fuel-backed organizations that are attempting to sway the judiciary in their favor, one of those law firms is countering. Evidence of this includes judicial seminars hosted by one such group featuring pro-industry speakers such as the current energy secretary, Chris Wright, in his former occupation as a fracking executive…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/10/judges-climate-crisis-energy-secretary

 

Bipartisan group of ex-federal judges challenges Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Lawsuit says settlement fund was ‘fraud on the court’ that would funnel taxpayer dollars to Trump allies

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/28/federal-judges-trump-anti-weaponization-fund

The SENATE Just SURPRISED TRUMP With BRUTAL LEAK

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nPRKlC6j4

 

They’ve been detained by ICE and ordered deported. Judges are releasing them from custody. - POLITICO

A POLITICO analysis of immigration detention cases has found that federal judges have ordered bond hearings and, more often, outright release for more than 400 people detained under these circumstances. And the rebukes have come from judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/ice-detainees-deportation-orders-rulings-00878579

"You Will Rule for Them 100% of the Time": Sen. Whitehouse to Leonard Leo aligned judicial appointee

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS04lmJqeck

 

Judges fired after blocking deportation of pro-Palestinian students

Two immigration judges who ruled against the Trump administration in the deportation cases of pro-Palestinian university students have been fired by the Department of Justice...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/13/immigration-judges-fired-trump-administration

US lower court judges are challenging Trump’s ‘war on the rule of law’, experts say

…Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor who was special White House counsel for a year in the first Trump administration, sees widespread legal repercussions from the administration’s battles against judges. 

“For the first time since 1826, the government no longer gets the benefit of the doubt about the honesty of their representations,” before the lower courts, Cobb said. “The longstanding ‘presumption of regularity’ has been forfeited because of the overwhelming number of lies which have increasingly infected administration claims.” 

Looking ahead, Cobb noted: “Trump’s continuing attacks on the judiciary, over the clearly stated objection of the chief justice, is just fascism at work. He is purposely denigrating the branch of government that must apply the Constitution to his corruption and overreach in order to accumulate more power for himself.”…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/trump-lower-court-judges-challenges

 

Chief justice John Roberts calls for end to ‘dangerous’ hostility toward judges

"The problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities, and you see … that it's more directed in a personal way," Roberts said. "And that, frankly, can be quite dangerous."

 He added: "Judges around the country work very hard to get it right. And if they don't, their opinions are subject to criticism. But personally directed hostility is dangerous and it's got to stop."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/john-roberts-hostility-toward-judges 

 

Judges keep ordering immigration hearings — but say the results are often a sham - POLITICO

The courts say the Trump administration isn't complying in good faith with demands to give ICE detainees a measure of due process...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/immigration-case-hearings-judges-00815660 

 

Even Trump’s own appointees are ruling against ICE’s mass detention strategy - POLITICO

A POLITICO review shows more than 350 judges have rejected the administration's approach…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256 

 

Federal Judicial Center Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges — ProPublica

The "Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence" — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure 

 

These Reagan-appointed judges have had it with Trump - POLITICO

A handful have lashed out against Trump in their rulings. Now, one judge has resigned from his post in order to speak out more forcefully...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/14/donald-trump-judges-00652762 

 

US court rejects Trump officials’ effort to delay rulings on veterans benefits

Exclusive: unanimous ruling calls administration's push to halt reviews of disability appeals an 'extreme request'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/court-trump-veterans-benefits-rulings

 

Law professor’s study finds courts’ growing concern with DOJ cases #shorts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2RMqaMQIHKo

 

Stephen Miller's rants against judges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIbrMKRIV2s

 

Trump accused of defying about a third of major court orders since taking office - The Washington Post

A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-court-orders-defy-noncompliance-marshals-judges/