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. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

🚨 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 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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.

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

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

NEW: The DOJ is going to investigate the University of California system for potential reverse discrimination. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

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

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. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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...

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...

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 www.propublica.org/article/us-o...

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." politi.co/3FtfESf

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...

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.

The Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act bars the government from destroying a sacred Western Apache site by turning it into a copper mine. Gorsuch, joined by Thomas, has an incandescently angry dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

BREAKING: NPR & public radio stations sue Trump over funding halts, argue such moves are an unconstitutional attempt to retaliate against the network because he doesn't like its content. Lead counsel: stymied GWBush DC Cir nominee Miguel Estrada. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

NEW: Judge Murphy, targeted for attacks by Trump and Stephen Miller, accuses the administration of misrepresenting his rulings and causing the chaos it now complains about with its summary deportations to South Sudan. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

BREAKING: #SCOTUS allows Trump to fire labor board members. Apparent 6-3 decision with all liberal justices in dissent. Court says more harm from denying POTUS right to remove officials than from those officials staying in office. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

NEW: Judge Joun's order requires the Department of Education to restore its legally required services, concluding that the mass-RIF had begun to cripple DOE operations and was aimed at shutting down the department. w/ @hassankanu.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination. This can't happen without cnogressional approval, she ruled. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A federal judge said the Trump administration defied his order when it deported a group of migrants to South Sudan yesterday morning -- and may have committed criminal contempt. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

REPORTER: What will it take for you to be convinced there is no white genocide in South Africa? RAMAPHOSA: I can take that. It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans TRUMP *scowling*: We have thousands of stories talking about it. Turn the lights down and put this on

Trump on his fake white genocide allegations against South Africa: "It'll be the end of the country if it's not resolved."

Trump on current conditions in South Africa: "This is sort of the opposite of apartheid."

BREAKING: A judge says of the flight to South Sudan: "The Department’s actions in this case are unquestionably violative of this court’s order."

JUST IN: Attorneys for Burmese and Vietnamese migrants accuse the Trump administration deporting them to South Sudan in violation of a court order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The charges against Rep. Lamonica McIver escalate a confrontation between the political branches at a time when President Trump is seeking to maaximize executive branch dominance. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Wow — Trump's SG won't agree with Barrett that the admin will always follow appellate court precedent while in that circuit. She asks: If the 2nd circuit finds the executive order unconditional, will the admin respect that? Sauer only says that "generally" they do

Barrett: Did I hear you correctly from Justice Kagan that you would reserve your rights not to follow Second Circuit precedent? Sauer says it’s the “general practice” to respect the precedent.

Trump's birthright order found no traction at the Supreme Court, but the justices appeared ready to limit nationwide blocks.

New: The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

NEW: The Supreme Court's unusual arguments this morning could be the most important of the term. Almost all of Trump's 2nd term agenda could be on the line. But this fight goes back more than a decade, to before his 1st stint in the White House www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: A judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s "DOGE Workforce Optimization" executive order that enabled the administration to fire tens of thousands of federal workers & eliminate certain agencies entirely. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: A federal judge ordered the “immediate” release of Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE custody, warning her detention — over an op-ed — could chill the speech of “millions.” w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/05...