DC fed judge entered a prelim. injunction to keep $ flowing to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for FY25, with a footnote that the rescission package Congress approved today undercut the govt, showing Trump admin understands "the proper procedure for clawing back appropriated

A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Kicking off the week with an exclamation point: DC federal judge orders Trump admin to restore a public database with info on how the executive branch is allocating money that Congress has appropriated buff.ly/r0uSysO

DC fed judge orders Trump admin to restore, for now, a program it ended dating back to 2013 that allows US immigration courts to appoint legal representatives to help people with serious mental illnesses buff.ly/x3ofNYF

On the situation unfolding in the NJ US attorney's office, or, "the day everyone becomes an FVRA and 28 USC 546 expert" buff.ly/T4FZ6Su

Separate decisions from TN and MD require that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be released on bail while he fights criminal charges (though that won't happen right away) and prevent immigration agents from arresting him bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A divided US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump temporarily remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, extending a line of decisions giving the White House more control over independent agencies. From Greg Stohr: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Overnight: A federal appeals court said blue states are entitled to a nationwide order blocking Trump's birthright citizenship executive order (which they also held is unconstitutional) -- a significant ruling following SCOTUS' order last month curbing lower court authority

"Shadow docket" sparring: Trump has cast SCOTUS wins as broad endorsements of his power to fire officials and shrink the government. But some judges are pushing back, saying these emergency orders give them too little to work with -- and they can't rule off the justices' "tea

The US Supreme Court is supposed to be the final word in disputes over the law. But the short emergency orders the justices are handing down in fights over Trump's policies -- sometimes with no explanation for decisions -- are creating even more legal churn in the lower courts

Following last month's SCOTUS action in the fight over Trump's plan to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, a third court has concluded that blocking it nationwide (also known as universal relief) is still appropriate bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A US trade court has for now denied an effort to restore a tariff exemption for small-value packages from China that Trump ended -- all eyes are on the Federal Circuit, which will hear arguments this week in a separate set of legal challenges to Trump's tariff executive orders

Latest in NJ: A man is fighting his prosecution on the grounds that Alina Habba is unlawfully leading the state’s US attorney’s office, opening a new front in the Trump administration’s efforts to keep her in the job. From Justin Wise at BLAW: buff.ly/x5GpCX9

When evidence fights become the thing to watch: - CA judge defending discovery order in agency firing fight says DOJ gave SCOTUS wrong info buff.ly/Dn9nAtR - FL judge orders Trump admin to produce any agreements w/ Florida state/local officials about migrant detention

DOJ announced it had filed another ethics complaint against a federal judge who ruled against the admin., this time accusing Judge James Boasberg in DC of making "improper" comments at a March meeting of judges bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tariffs Thursday: A top DOJ official faced the brunt of sharp questioning from a US appeals court today as the administration defends Trump's use of an emergency law to impose global tariffs; another round of country-specific increases are set to kick in tomorrow

It's been three years since Jeffrey Clark faced formal ethics charges from DC Bar regulators over his efforts to get DOJ to intervene on Trump's behalf after the 2020 election -- the latest panel to consider the case recommended disbarment, per new report. Next stop is the DC

The Trump admin is no longer facing contempt proceedings re: sending Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador after a divided DC Circuit panel tossed out a district judge's findings. Today's order might not be the final word, though. What happened and what could happen next: