On Aug. 18, a federal court hearing in Colorado surfaced a December email that made an already contentious federal-state dispute more structurally legible. Colorado had made decisions the federal executive could not directly reverse. The…
After presidential commutations left the Jan. 6 convictions intact, the Justice Department used appellate vacatur and dismissal with prejudice to erase the convictions and foreclose renewed prosecution. With prosecution and defense aligned on that result,…
A court exposed the absence of genuine adversity, Senate leverage forced the rescission of a $1.8 billion fund, and the remaining tax protection entered legal limbo. On July 31, the plaintiffs in President Trump’s lawsuit…
August 3, 2026 — Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss without prejudice the felony charge against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn after government records showed that widespread damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s new liner…
July 20, 2026 — At a senior living community near Stanford University, residents gathered to confront a problem they could not solve: immigration policy was forcing some of their caregivers out of work. Several employees…
July 20, 2026 — Arizona’s SNAP enrollment fell by about half in less than a year, removing roughly 440,000 people from the program. For many, the legal entitlement remained. What changed was the cost of…
July 23, 2026 – The Justice Department withdrew subpoenas seeking phone records and grand jury testimony from New York Times journalists who had reported on the security capabilities of President Trump’s new Air Force One.…
July 10, 2026 — President Trump removed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan federal body without any commissioners months before the midterm elections. The White House said the president could…
July 13, 2026 — A federal judge ruled that President Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was not a genuine dispute between opposing parties. Trump was suing an agency within the executive branch he…
On June 23, 2026, the Senate joined the House in approving a concurrent resolution directing President Trump to end the war in Iran or seek congressional authorization to continue it. After a failed Senate effort…