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A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked President Trump's directive to suspend asylum and other protections for migrants at the southern border, ruling that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not grant broad removal authority or the right to deny asylum, thereby keeping existing asylum procedures in place and signaling potential further review by the full court or the Supreme Court.
The Department of Justice asked a Northern California judge to pause its appeal of a March ruling blocking the government’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk to national security, arguing that awaiting a related ruling from the D.C. Circuit could influence the issues and potentially render the California case unnecessary.
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit halted a district court’s criminal-contempt probe into whether Trump-era officials violated an order to turn around two deportation flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, ruling the inquiry would intrude on executive branch autonomy and raise separation-of-powers concerns; Judge Neomi Rao wrote the majority, with Judge J. Michelle Childs dissenting.
A divided DC Circuit Court of Appeals ordered US District Judge James Boasberg to end his criminal contempt inquiry into Trump administration officials who defied orders to halt deportations under a wartime authority, ruling the probe intruded on executive branch deliberations and constituted an abuse of discretion; one dissenting judge (Michelle Childs) argued the record supported contempt, but the appellate decision effectively ends the investigation.
A California federal judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a national-security supply-chain risk, a win that could preserve roughly $200 million in Pentagon work and partnerships. But the ruling is only a partial victory: the government may still pursue the designation under separate statutes, and a D.C. Circuit panel could rule differently, leaving months or years of legal uncertainty for Anthropic and the broader AI industry as appeals proceed.
The Trump administration has dropped its appeals to bar four prominent law firms with ties to Democrats—from Perkins Coie and Wilmer Cutler to Jenner & Block and Susman Godfrey—after federal judges in D.C. blocked the government’s effort to cut their access to the federal government. The DOJ had sought to strip the firms’ lawyers of access to federal buildings, classified information, and agency meetings, as part of a retaliatory move, but the courts rejected the strategy and the government announced it was withdrawing its appeals without comment from a DOJ spokesperson.
An appeals court panel dismissed Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings related to deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, citing the Supreme Court's rejection of his original order and recent developments in the deportation case, with dissenting opinions emphasizing judicial authority and the pressures faced by the judge.