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Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide

The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage.

© Hilary Swift for The New York Times

Flood damage in Vermont in 2023. The administration has sued the state over its climate superfund law.
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Trump Administration Targets Financial Relief for Undocumented Students

The Justice Department has challenged several states that offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, contending that the policies discriminate against U.S. citizens.

© Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

Shortly after the Trump administration challenged Texas, a federal judge ruled that a state law offering undocumented students access to in-state tuition was “invalid.”
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Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

© Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times

Federal policies on vaccines have been changing rapidly since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, became secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington

Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

National Guard troops patrolling around the Washington Monument.
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Judge Rules Utah Must Redraw Its Congressional Map, Frustrating Republicans

A G.O.P. effort to carve up a Democratic stronghold ignored the will of voters, a judge said. The ruling, which Republicans can appeal, makes the state another battleground in the national fight over redistricting.

© Laura Seitz/The Deseret News, via Associated Press

Demonstrators protested against the redistricting of Utah’s congressional map in 2021.
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