Stephen Dinan

Judge blocks Trump’s attack on Harvard’s foreign student program

A federal judge has issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration's move to kick Harvard University out of the foreign student program, saying the school faces an irreparable injury if the decision is allowed to go forward.

May 23, 2025

Illegal immigrant charged with voting in 2024 election and stealing $400,000 in welfare

Federal prosecutors charged a Colombian migrant with stealing someone else's identity then using it to illegally vote, obtain a secure identification and steal $400,000 in welfare and other federal programs.

May 23, 2025

Court rules that deportation of mother is not ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

A federal judge has ruled that being deported does not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Constitution, rejecting an illegal immigrant mother's request that her potential removal be rescinded.

May 23, 2025

Harvard sues Trump, says move to boot foreign students is retaliation for school’s free speech

Harvard University has sued to stop the administration from shutting down its pipeline of foreign students, saying it was unconstitutional retaliation for the school not bowing to President Trump's wishes.

May 23, 2025

Federal judge extends blockade on Trump’s Reductions in Force at federal agencies

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday against President Trump's massive "reductions in force" for the federal bureaucracy, saying it looks like he's really trying to do the sort of agency reorganization that requires permission from Congress.

May 22, 2025

Head of Harvard hospital’s morgue pleads guilty to selling human body parts

The manager of Harvard Medical School's morgue has pleaded guilty to selling human remains.

May 22, 2025

Supreme Court grants Trump broad powers to fire agency leaders

The Supreme Court gave the OK on Thursday to President Trump to carry out firings of Democratic appointees at some major federal watchdog agencies, saying the chief executive has wide-ranging powers to shape the workforce that carries out his policies.

May 22, 2025

DHS change will allow states to identify more noncitizen voters

Homeland Security's citizenship agency announced a change to its database Thursday that should allow states to identify more noncitizens who are illegally registered to vote.

May 22, 2025

DHS bans Harvard from enrolling foreign students over school’s ‘pro-terrorist conduct,’ Noem says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moved Thursday to decertify Harvard University from the government's foreign student program, meaning the school can no longer host them and any students already enrolled must try to transfer.

May 22, 2025

Illegal immigrant goes nuts on ICE officers

Three deportation officers trying to take an illegal immigrant into custody earlier this month suffered significant injuries after the man fought back, prosecutors said, describing a bizarre scuffle that included the migrant grabbing and twisting an officer's testicles.

May 22, 2025

Maryland court issues automatic block on deportations for migrants who file habeas petitions

The federal district court in Maryland has announced a new policy that automatically blocks deportation for any illegal immigrant who files a "habeas" petition challenging their arrest and detention.

May 22, 2025

Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to shut down Education Department

A federal judge blocked President Trump from unilaterally moving to shut down the Education Department, saying Thursday that Congress created it and only Congress can end it.

May 22, 2025

Divided Supreme Court affirms Oklahoma decision to block nation’s first religious charter school

An evenly divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Oklahoma high court ruling that halted what would have been the nation's first religious charter school.

May 22, 2025

Judge orders Trump administration to continue ‘DEI’ grant for school desegregation aid

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration wrongly shut down a grant to promote desegregation of schools in the South by claiming it was a DEI program.

May 21, 2025

Trump’s firing of feds’ civil liberties watchdog was illegal, judge rules

Yet another of President Trump's firings was found illegal Wednesday, when a federal judge ruled he overstepped in ousting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a privacy watchdog.

May 21, 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court to shut down ‘intrusive’ probe of DOGE

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to step in and shut down what the government called a "sweeping, intrusive" legal discovery process against Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying a lower court has turned the law on its head.

May 21, 2025

Judge threatens DHS with ‘criminal obstruction’ after illegal immigrants deported to South Sudan

Yet another federal judge is flogging the Trump administration for wrongly deporting people, this time to South Sudan, saying the government defied his orders to keep the illegal immigrants in the U.S. until they had full due process to challenge their removals.

May 21, 2025

Justice Department moves to free Louisville, Minneapolis police from BLM-related monitoring

The Department of Justice said Wednesday it will move to release Minneapolis and Louisville from Black Lives Matter-inspired federal monitoring of their police departments.

May 21, 2025

Judge slams Supreme Court for ‘disrespect’ to Trump

A federal appeals court judge unloaded on his superiors at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, saying they bent over backward to assist Venezuelan gang members and are risking the standing of the judiciary by rash rulings that disfavor President Trump.

May 20, 2025

Resentment of ICE, backlash against its agents and mission rise alongside Democrats’ condemnations

Democrats have ramped up their anti-ICE rhetoric, and some Americans seem to be taking their words to heart and taking matters into their own hands by threatening -- and in some cases carrying out -- their own war on the government's deportation force.

May 20, 2025