The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.
Voters filling in their ballots at voting booths in Bismarck, N.D., in 2022. If the justices agree to hear the North Dakota matter, it will be the second major voting rights case in the upcoming term, which begins in October.
He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.
The administration asked the judge in the case to sentence the former officer to essentially the brief time he had served when he was first charged, and three years of supervised release.
The group, Cristosal, has investigated prison deaths and torture under President Nayib Bukele. Its employees were threatened and surveilled, its director said.
Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and disbursing federal funding.
President Trump has moved aggressively to reopen long-settled issues and to dismantle long-established institutions as he tries to return to what he considers better times.
In last month’s decision limiting one judicial tool, universal injunctions, the court seemed to invite lower courts to use class actions as an alternative.
The federal courthouse in Concord, N.H. A federal judge in the state opened a new front in the battle to deny President Trump’s effort to redefine who can become a citizen.
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.
The initial rulings represented a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during raids, which have entered their second month.