Who Is the Judge Hearing Arguments Over the Guard’s Deployment in Illinois?

Judge April M. Perry is a Biden appointee who has been a federal judge for less than a year.

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Who is Judge Immergut? Trump Appointee in Oregon Blocks Troop Deployment.

Judge Karin Immergut worked on Ken Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton. Now she’s ruled against Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portland.

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How the Government Shutdown Is Slowing Down Federal Courts

Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to pause their cases until funding resumes.

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Supreme Court Allows Lisa Cook to Remain at Fed, for Now

The president has pressured the central bank to lower borrowing costs and tried to install political loyalists to the board.

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Judge Disqualifies Nevada’s Acting U.S. Attorney From Handling Cases

A federal judge said Sigal Chattah was not “validly serving as acting U.S. attorney.” The Trump administration had appointed her to the post in a way that circumvented federal procedures.

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Full Federal Appeals Court to Hear Alien Enemies Act Case

The decision vacated a finding by a panel of the court’s judges regarding President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants, but did not clear the way for such expulsions to resume.

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Judge Blocks Trump Move to Cut FEMA Funds Over Immigration Policy

A coalition of blue states and Washington, D.C., accused the Trump administration of illegally “taking money from its enemies” in freezing emergency preparedness grants.

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Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

In a blistering opinion, a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration used the threat of deportations to systematically intimidate certain campus demonstrators into silence.

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In Unusual Move, Prosecutors Secure Federal Charges From Local Grand Jury

A judge, Zia M. Faruqui, said that what appeared to be a kind of grand jury forum shopping seemed to have broken “decades-long norms and the rule of law.”

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A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump

The organization, Demand Justice, will use its megaphone to call on lawmakers to “demonstrate steadfast opposition to the dismantling and corruption of our legal system, courts and the rule of law.”

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