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Judge blocks Trump’s order revoking birthright citizenship A federal judge in New Hampshire allowed a lawsuit challenging Trump's order to proceed as a class action.

A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a nationwide block on Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, just weeks after the Supreme Court lifted similar orders as too broad.

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Supreme Court green-lights Trump’s order for mass firings across federal government The justices granted the administration's emergency appeal seeking permission to enforce a Feb. 11 executive order that instructed agencies to carry out dramatic “reductions in force.”

🚨 SCOTUS allows federal agencies to move forward with mass firings.

This has huge implications, including for USDA.

via @joshgerstein.bsky.social and @hassankanu.bsky.social

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Supreme Court green-lights Trump’s order for mass firings across federal government The justices granted the administration's emergency appeal seeking permission to enforce a Feb. 11 executive order that instructed agencies to carry out dramatic “reductions in force.”

BREAKING: #SCOTUS lifts judge's order blocking mass firings at most major federal agencies. But 8-1 decision doesn't specifically bless any agency's downsizing plans. Another fiery Jackson dissent. w/@hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Judge briefly pauses Trump administration’s July 4 bid to deport 8 men to South Sudan The stay is set to expire early Friday evening.

UPDATE: Judge Murphy denies the emergency motion — it appears the men will be South Sudan-bound within the hour. He lays it at the feet of the Supreme Court. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Supreme Court will decide whether states can ban transgender girls from girls’ sports The court took up a pair of cases about state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that ban people assigned male at birth from competing on school teams for women and girls.

NEW: #SCOTUS takes another big foray into transgender issues, agreeing to hear cases on ID & WV state bans on trans women in women's sports. Cases likely argued in fall and decided by next June. w/@biancaquilan www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Judge Bates says the rushed removal by HHS of 100s of websites containing gender-related data was an example of officials “acting first and thinking later.”

It also violates the law, he ruled, ordering the sites restored. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Judge blocks Trump’s early termination of temporary protections for Haitian immigrants But the Supreme Court previously allowed the administration to quickly end similar protections for Venezuelans.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump’s early termination of temporary protections for Haitian immigrants politi.co/4ldFsS4

Trump tried to fire them. But these Democratic appointees are still on the job. At a few federal agencies, officials have managed to maintain their positions in defiance of Trump’s efforts to remove them.

Trump tried to fire them. But these Democratic appointees are still on the job.

Trump tried to fire them. But these Democratic appointees are still on the job. At a few federal agencies, officials have managed to maintain their positions in defiance of Trump’s efforts to remove them.

NEW: A small handful of officials at independent fed agencies have managed to maintain their positions in defiance of Trump’s efforts to remove them. Their resistance could shape how courts view pending cases about the president's powers to hire & fire.
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Interesting info in this piece.

Trump’s big Supreme Court win has three significant loopholes Class actions and other legal strategies may allow Trump’s opponents to keep pursuing broad blocks against at least some of his policies.

Trump’s big Supreme Court win has three significant loopholes.

GOOD MORNING from #SCOTUS, where it's a little cooler than yesterday, about 120% humidity AND the last opinion day of the term. POLITICO colleagues & I will be blogging live the play-by-play & analysis. Follow here: www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump celebrates SCOTUS ruling in birthright citizenship case "GIANT WIN in the United States Supreme Court!" Trump posted.

Trump celebrated the SCOTUS ruling in birthright citizenship case as "GIANT WIN."

Supreme Court leaves open the question of nationwide injunctions when states sue This may now become the next major front on these issues.

Supreme Court leaves open the question of nationwide injunctions when states sue.

Justice Department Opens Investigation into the University of California System for Race- and Sex-Based Employment Practices The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the University of California (UC) system, including its individual campuses, concerning potential race- and sex-based di...

NEW: The DOJ is going to investigate the University of California system for potential reverse discrimination.
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Trump revived an 85-year-old immigration law. It puts undocumented immigrants in a Catch-22. The Trump administration has begun prosecuting immigrants who don’t comply with a registration requirement in a 1940 law.

Trump revived an 85-year-old immigration law. It puts undocumented immigrants in a Catch-22.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

Reuters photos capture Marines helping with a detention of some kind. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

NEW: Trump's attempted termination of 3 members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission was unlawful, fed judge in MD rules. Judge orders members reinstated to their roles.
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NEW: Judge Sooknanan won't revisit her previous order, which means that Susan Tsui Grundmann remains a member of the FLRA after Trump tried to fire her in Feb. The agency oversees labor and union/management relations for federal employees.
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Second judge blocks most of Trump’s executive order on elections The judge blocked the provision that directed federal and local officials to require proof of citizenship when people register to vote.

NEW: A federal judge has blocked the key provisions of Trump’s executive order that sought to make it harder to register to vote, including a requirement to prove citizenship that also applied to military & other citizens living abroad.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, clad in a red jumpsuit, has pleaded not guilty to the human trafficking charges he faces, per @joshgerstein.bsky.social , who is in the federal courthouse in Nashville.

He's currently fighting for release pending trial.

Details TK

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked election officials from enforcing Trump’s executive order requiring states to apply citizenship requirements, saying it imposes significant burdens and would harm eligible voters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

BREAKING: Appeals court blocks judge's order that would force Trump to return control of National Guard to Newsom. Stay freezes order until at least Tuesday, unless a higher authority lifts it. Latest w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Judge rules Trump’s Guard deployment in Los Angeles is illegal U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ordered the president to return control of the Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

BREAKING: Judge rules Trump's deployment of National Guard to L.A. is illegal & must be halted by noon PT Friday. Trump admin has already appealed. One potential weakness in Judge Charles Breyer's ruling: It's broader than what CA Gov Newsom was asking for www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties The administration is challenging a judge’s ruling that blocks the deportations unless certain procedures are followed.

NEW: Trump administration takes another emergency appeal to #SCOTUS, asking it to block Boston fed judge's orders requiring advance notice before third-country deportations www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma...

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DOGE comes for historic civil rights board

BREAKING: "DOGE’s blitz on independent agencies has reached a historic federal civil rights commission responsible for investigating modern patterns of discrimination and guiding the response from Congress and law enforcement."
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SCOOP: The Trump admin is considering expanding social media vetting to ALL foreign students, has ordered a pause on interviews with such applicants, according to a State Dept cable I obtained. (For subscribers below, but free version coming soon): subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES L. M., A MINOR, BY AND THROUGH HIS FATHER AND STEPMOTHER AND NATURAL GUARDIANS, CHRISTOPHER AND SUSAN MORRISON v. TOWN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT No. 24-410. Decided May 27, 2025 JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. This case presents an issue of great importance for our Nation's youth: whether public schools may suppress student speech either because it expresses a viewpoint that the school disfavors or because of vague concerns about the likely effect of the speech on the school atmosphere or on students who find the speech offensive. In this case, a middle school permitted and indeed encouraged student expression endorsing the view that there are many genders. But when L. M., a seventh grader, wore a t-shirt that said "There Are Only Two Genders," he was barred from attending class. And when he protested this censorship by blocking out the words "Only Two" and substituting "CENSORED," the school prohibited that shirt as well.

Alito, joined by Thomas, dissents over the court not agreeing to hear a case over a boy told he couldn't wear a "There Are Only Two Genders" shirt to class. [corrected]

First Circuit held the school could do so because of the disruption the demeaning message would reasonably be expected to cause.