Stephen Dinan

Anti-Trump groups seek new legal strategies after Supreme Court limits injunctions

Even as the Supreme Court delivered its earthquake ruling limiting anti-Trump judges' ability to constrain the president with universal injunctions, the justices pointed to a way forward for President Trump's opponents: class-action lawsuits.

June 29, 2025

Immigration groups try end run around Supreme Court ruling with new ‘birthright’ class action suit

Immigrant rights groups moved quickly to try to stop President Trump's birthright citizenship policy with a class action lawsuit Friday, filed just hours after the Supreme Court dented their previous legal attack.

June 27, 2025

Supreme Court puts off ruling on racial lines in Louisiana’s congressional map

The Supreme Court said Friday it will wait to rehear cases involving a challenge to Louisiana's congressional map, putting off until the next term a decision on whether lawmakers were too focused on race when they drew the lines.

June 27, 2025

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers now want him to remain in custody for three more weeks

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are now asking a federal judge to keep him in custody for roughly three more weeks, saying they fear that if the judge does order him released, the Trump administration will try to deport him rather than keep him here to stand trial.

June 27, 2025

U.S. has arrested more than 2,700 Tren de Aragua members

Federal authorities have now arrested 2,711 members of Tren de Aragua, the notorious Venezuela-based gang, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.

June 27, 2025

Trump celebrates ‘monumental’ win at Supreme Court

President Trump heaped praise on the Supreme Court Friday, thanking the justices for a "monumental" ruling that limits the power of lower court judges to issue universal blockades on his executive actions.

June 27, 2025

Appeals court gives Trump OK to slash U.S. Institute of Peace

A federal appeals court on Friday said President Trump was likely on solid legal ground when he fired the board at the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent in his own people to start cutting.

June 27, 2025

Supreme Court OKs Texas law requiring age verification for adult entertainment sites

The Supreme Court ruled that Texas can require age verification to ensure minors aren't accessing sexually explicit material online, saying the state's law doesn't infringe on adults' constitutional rights.

June 27, 2025

Supreme Court rules for parents challenging school’s LGBTQ story time

The Supreme Court delivered a constitutional spanking to Montgomery County, Maryland, on Friday, saying its public schools went too far in trying to force pro-LGBT messages on pre-K and elementary-age children without giving their families a chance to opt out if they had religious objections.

June 27, 2025

Justices back Trump on nationwide injunctions, clear way for limits on birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court delivered a shock wave to anti-Trump judges Friday, saying their use of "universal injunctions" to block the president's agenda nationwide is likely illegal -- and in effect gave President Trump the power to alter birthright citizenship for children born to some illegal immigrants.

June 27, 2025

Terrorist watchlist encounters soar at southern border after Trump reclassifies cartels

The Department of Homeland Security is suddenly seeing a massive surge in the number of terrorism suspects detected crossing the southern border, averaging more than 280 encounters per month in April and May, according to the latest government data.

June 26, 2025

Triple-dipping teleworker: Fed employee claimed to be working three jobs at one time

A federal employee pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud, admitting she used teleworking so she could claim to be working full-time for three different government agencies at the same time.

June 26, 2025

Supreme Court limits timeline for illegal immigrants to file appeals of deportation decisions

The Supreme Court issued Thursday a ruling that narrows the window for illegal immigrants to appeal their looming deportations to federal appeals courts.

June 26, 2025

WATCH: Supreme Court rules states can cut Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood

The Supreme Court ruled against Planned Parenthood on Thursday, shooting down a lawsuit that challenged South Carolina's law banning state Medicaid patients from using the abortion provider for their health care needs.

June 26, 2025

Judge orders release of Abrego Garcia — eventually

A federal judge ordered the government to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant at the center of a major deportation and criminal legal battle, from pre-trial detention, though he gave the Justice Department more time to argue over the conditions of release.

June 25, 2025

Trump’s defense lawyer faces battle to win appeals court seat

Emil Bove, President Trump's former defense lawyer and now a pick to be a federal appeals court judge, vehemently denied Wednesday that he tried to get the Justice Department to ignore judges' orders, as he fended off fierce Democratic opposition to his nomination.

June 25, 2025

Trump’s DOJ sues an entire federal court trying to block deportations

President Trump's Justice Department took the unusual step Wednesday of suing an entire federal court, saying the judges in Maryland are bending over backward to give a break to illegal immigrants facing deportations.

June 25, 2025

‘Lawless act of defiance’: DOJ says Biden judge is refusing to follow Supreme Court order

Eight illegal immigrants are living in a shipping container on a U.S. military base in the African country of Djibouti after a federal judge this week said a Supreme Court ruling allowing third-country deportations doesn't apply to them.

June 25, 2025

Court blocks Trump’s attempt to strip fed workers of union rights

A federal court Tuesday issued an injunction against President Trump's decision to strip collective bargaining rights from a wide swath of federal employees, saying his move amounted to illegal political retaliation against major labor unions.

June 24, 2025

Ousted Justice Dept. lawyer says Trump administration sought to mislead judge over deportations

A Justice Department lawyer who was booted from his job by Attorney General Pam Bondi has told Congress that the administration was plotting how to mislead judges and defy court orders in immigration cases, according to House Democrats.

June 24, 2025