A senior Homeland Security official testified in court on Wednesday that his department had relied in part on an anonymously compiled list to identify foreign academics for investigation.
Peter Hatch, the assistant director of the Homeland Security Investigations department within ICE, testified that a team he oversaw had been directed to pore over the thousands of individuals profiled by the Canary Mission, an anonymous group that has been accused of doxxing individuals engaged in anti-Israeli activism.
The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartisan agencies.
In a 103-page opinion, Judge William G. Young chronicled an “unmistakable pattern of discrimination” by the Trump administration in its termination of federal science funding.
The judge wrote that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law gave the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigration system.”
A federal judge found that efforts by Pete Marocco and affiliates of Elon Musk to seize control of the U.S. African Development Foundation earlier this year appeared unlawful.
In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration’s plans to drastically change the structure and mission of the Department of Health and Human Services was probably unlawful.
The lawsuit claims that a new immigrant detention facility is being rushed forward by Republicans on ecologically sensitive and nationally protected lands, without standard environmental reviews.
The Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, in the Florida Everglades, in 2019. Florida officials have started construction of a detention facility at the site of the unfinished airport, which a lawsuit seeks to halt.
The executive order that President Trump signed targeting Perkins Coie explicitly cited its past work with the liberal donor George Soros and Mr. Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton.
The ruling completed a clean sweep for the handful of law firms that took the risk of fighting the Trump administration in court, rather than accepting punitive conditions.
Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia issued the latest decision regarding the firms targeted by the president for punishment.
So far, the courts have sided with business owners who sued after their money service businesses were caught up in President Trump’s crackdown on cartels.
Ashley Light, the owner of Valuta Corporation, a money services business in El Paso, Texas, last month. She sued the Trump administration over the new data reporting requirements.
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