They claim Trump’s executive orders are unconstitutional. The government says their lawsuit should be thrown out. The two sides are set to clash this week in Montana.
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role.
Senator John Thune, the majority leader, began the process on Monday by introducing 48 of President Trump’s nominees together to allow them to be confirmed as a group.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been putting the squeeze on companies and trading partners in an unusual effort to raise revenue and expand the president’s role over the economy.
As the commerce secretary and a top official in charge of President Trump’s trade negotiations, Howard Lutnick has an array of powerful economic levers to deploy.
In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states.
Poll workers at a Las Vegas voting site in November. A Justice Department official said all 50 states would eventually receive requests for voter roll data, according to notes of a meeting.
On national security, spending and oversight, the president continues to undercut the legislative branch, and Republicans in charge have done little to stop him.
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was the first time that federal appellate judges had weighed in on the substantive question of whether President Trump had properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
The decision affirmed a lower court’s ruling from March, but was overshadowed by a Supreme Court order that allowed the Trump administration to pursue deportations anyway.
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.
The administration is attempting to unilaterally claw back money that has already been appropriated by running out the clock for Congress to reject its request before the funding expires.
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.
Susan Monarez was fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control this week, White House officials said. The move came after she declined to fire agency officials or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine panel overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
President Trump’s extraordinary push to override local authority and militarize cities in Democratic-run states has prompted an unusually united response from state leaders.
Earlier this week Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois warned President Trump to keep the military out of Chicago and reminded his audience that of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates, eight are led by Republican governors.
The Supreme Court has said the Federal Reserve Board’s independence warrants protection. President Trump’s effort to fire a member will test that commitment.
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