Recent Updates
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Trump administration asks court to lift restrictions on California immigration stops
U.S. Court Watch 08/08/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to halt a court order restricting immigration stops that swept up at least two U.S. citizens in Southern California.The emergency petition comes after an appeals court refused to lift a tem...
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Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees
U.S. Court Watch 07/16/2025The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday...
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Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
U.S. Court Watch 07/13/2025The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of thei...
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Georgia appeals court upholds ruling saying election officials must certify results
U.S. Court Watch 07/10/2025A Georgia appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that said county election officials in the state must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had ruled in October that &ldqu...
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas
U.S. Court Watch 05/07/2025A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.”U.S. District Court Judg...
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Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting
U.S. Court Watch 05/04/2025Wall Street is pointing toward losses Tuesday ahead of a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve, which is facing the diametrically opposed challenges of potential inflation and a softening employment landscape.Futures for the S&P 500 lost 0.7% an...
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Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy
U.S. Court Watch 04/22/2025Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is pushing forward with her efforts to force Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to drop a longtime policy that generally prohibits deputies from directly engaging in federal immigration enforcement within the c...
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Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal
U.S. Court Watch 04/11/2025A former Conservative lawmaker and 14 others have been charged with cheating when placing bets on the timing of Britain’s general election last year, the Gambling Commission said Monday.Craig Williams was one of several people who had been inve...
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Turkish court orders key Erdogan rival jailed pending trial on corruption charges
U.S. Court Watch 03/25/2025A court formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges.Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained following a raid on his residence ...
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Austria’s new government is stopping family reunions immediately for migrants
U.S. Court Watch 03/12/2025The new Austrian government said Wednesday that family reunion procedures for migrants will be immediately halted because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately.The measure is temporary and intended to ensure that those migrants...
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Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges
U.S. Court Watch 03/07/2025A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.By a 5-4 vote, the court’s co...
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Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case
U.S. Court Watch 02/13/2025Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”Spared from jail as part of a plea...