Judge Aileen Cannon, a “brilliant judge.” Cannon’s ruling that Smith was unlawfully appointed contradicted 50 years of precedent around special counsel authority.

A federal judge Friday evening refused to block the Labor Department from giving Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to confidential systems or power to fire employees ...

District judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by the US president during his first term, agreed with legal arguments from the largest government workers' union and an association of foreign ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary block on plans by the Trump administration to put 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave. U.S. District Judge Carl ...

A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.

A federal judge in New York temporarily restricted the ability of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access the Treasury Department payment system, saying that doing so was ...

GREENBELT, Maryland, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday became the second one nationally to block Donald Trump's administration from implementing the Republican ...

UPDATE (Feb. 6, 2025, 2:24 p.m. ET): On Thursday, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, in Washington state, likewise issued a preliminary injunction, writing that the Trump administration’s ...

The ruling came just hours before the deadline for employees to take the offer. A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration and DOGE head Elon Musk from implementing ...

A federal judge on Friday paused a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000. U.S ...

Two foreign service unions sued the Trump administration over the move. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place 2,200 employees of the United States ...