Recent Updates
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The Supreme Court will evaluate Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power
U.S. Court News 10/07/2025The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with a sharp focus on President Donald Trump’s robust assertion of executive power.Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also are on the agenda. On Tuesday, the justices will hear argum...
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Government shutdown nears, congressional leaders to meet at White House
Legal Compliance 09/30/2025Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their e...
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Senate rejects competing bills, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1
U.S. Court News 09/17/2025The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the ot...
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Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
U.S. Court News 08/10/2025The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public profile.But like so much in President Donald Trum...
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Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants
U.S. Court News 08/04/2025An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make th...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
Featured Articles 07/23/2025A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadersh...
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Court hears arguments in Trump’s bid to erase hush money conviction
U.S. Court News 07/20/2025As President Donald Trump focuses on global trade deals and dispatching troops to aid his immigration crackdown, his lawyers are fighting to erase the hush money criminal conviction that punctuated his reelection campaign last year and made him the f...
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Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees
U.S. Court News 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 News 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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What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling
Featured Articles 06/28/2025The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.Immigrant advocates are vowing to fight to ens...
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Court widens court options for vaping companies pushing back against FDA rules
U.S. Court News 06/24/2025The Supreme Court sided with e-cigarette companies on Friday in a ruling making it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market.The 7-2 opinion comes as companies push ba...
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ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses
Legal Compliance 06/19/2025Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job. &ldquo...