JUST IN: DOJ says tort claims by Jan. 6 defendants that were not lodged by 2023 are "forever barred" by the statute of limitations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kyle Cheney
Профиль VivelySenior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented mass detention policy — the 5th striaght appellate loss for the Trump administration and perhaps the most significant, covering California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, among others. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
NEW: The Trump administration activate the never-before-used "Alien Terrorist Removal Court" to deport a woman whose son and son-in-law conspired to commit a "mass casualty" attack on Election Day 2024 in support of ISIS. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
JUST IN: A judge in New Jersey just became the latest to reject DOJ’s demand for state voter rolls. He acknowledges the latest flap over noncitizen registrants but says it’s not relevant to this particular legal dispute. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: Kalshi has won a federal court ruling to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that would have banned prediction markets in the state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: A day after the 2nd Circuit upheld the detention of Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi, the 4th Circuit goes the other way, upholding the *release* of Georgetown research Badar Khan Suri. 2-1 ruling. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Judge Claria Horn Boom, a Trump appointee in Kentucky, has denied the administration bid to obtain Kentucky's voter rolls, the latest in an unbroken string of legal defeats on this issue. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
So far, it appears the district judges in CA5 are operating as though this stay ruling does not bind them. Here's the latest from Judge Saldana, who acknowledges it but says the lack of analysis means there's nothing to follow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Steve VladeckOn Tuesday, the full Fifth Circuit granted DOJ's request for a "precedential stay" of district court rulings holding that the Due Process Clause requires bond hearings for immigration detainees w/in 90 days of their arrest. Today's "One First" explains why that's a really big (and problematic) deal:
Here's a new one: ICE *prevented* a man from self-deporting by a June 11 deadline — he asked ICE to let him leave and had a one-way plane ticket for June 10. Then ICE re-detained him because he missed the deadline. Due process violation, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: Roger Rogoff, who was appointed interim US attorney by judges in Washington state and immediately fired by President Trump, is suing to block his removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Preliminary Injunction – #8 in Rogoff v. Trump (W.D. Wash., 2:26-cv-02566) – CourtListener.comMOTION for Preliminary Injunction, filed by Plaintiff Roger Rogoff. Oral Argument Requested. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order) Noting Date 8/18/2026, (Rittereiser, Jason) (Entered: 07/21/2026)storage.courtlistener.comBREAKING: A federal appeals court panel has upheld White House aide Peter NAVARRO's criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW: FBI Director Patel is planning to go to Moscow and St. Petersburg in October. w/ @nahaltoosi.bsky.social, John Sakellariadis, @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Kash at the Kremlin? FBI director plans Russia trip.The plans come as the U.S. and Russia have failed to come to terms on ending the war in Ukraine.www.politico.comJUST IN: A federal judge in Minnesota — Trump appointed chief judge Eric Tostrud — has rejected the administation's effort to force Minnesota to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.comJUST IN: A federal judge has paused the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger, saying it likely violates antitrust laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
JUST IN: A 16th straight district court has rejected DOJ’s bid to obtain state voter rolls — this one in Connecticut. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order on Motion to Compel AND Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Dismiss – #109 in United States v. Thomas (D. Conn., 3:26-cv-00021) – CourtListener.comORDER denying 9 Motion to Compel; granting 60 Motion to Dismiss; finding as moot 56 and 58 Motions to Dismiss. For the reasons set forth in the attached Memorandum of Decision, the United States' 9 Mo...storage.courtlistener.comThe Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW: A judge said today that President Trump’s policy facilitating visas for World Cup players undercuts his claims that other immigration benefits — for nationals from some of the same countries — need to be halted for security reasons w @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/live-updates...
Judge handling challenge to Trump immigration halt cites exceptions for World Cup visas“If the categorical ban on those countries was needed," the Obama appointee asked, "why did we let the soccer players in?"www.politico.com