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A U.S. appeals court in the District of Columbia allowed the Trump administration to continue pursuing its mail-ballot executive order, ruling that the challenge is premature since USPS has not yet implemented regulations. The decision comes as the DOJ asks the Supreme Court to intervene and as other courts weigh related injunctions ahead of the midterm elections, keeping the policy in limbo while litigation unfolds.
A U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C. denied the Trump administration’s bid to terminate Haitian Temporary Protected Status immediately, delaying the end of TPS to July 27 and giving roughly 350,000 Haitians extra time to prepare, amid ongoing lawsuits and efforts in Congress to extend protections.
A Fox News opinion argues that Judge James Boasberg again denied a jury trial to pro-life groups who chalked 'Black Pre-Born Lives Matter' while similar Black Lives Matter messages were left untouched, criticizing his application of the wrong standard and describing an expanding, overly controlling approach. The D.C. Circuit reversed him, urging a proper free-speech analysis and suggesting credible evidence of selective enforcement could support a jury verdict, with the case returning for further proceedings.
A D.C. Circuit panel unanimously upheld Peter Navarro’s contempt conviction for defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena, rejecting his claim that Trump invoked executive privilege and noting that Trump has not publicly supported that contention; Navarro refused to testify or provide documents, was convicted in 2023, served four months in 2024, and plans further appeals.
A DC Circuit panel temporarily lifted a lower-court injunction, letting USPS press ahead with a Trump-backed mail-ballot rule that would require states to share voter data to determine ballot transmission; the ruling gives USPS time to finalize the rule while the NAACP-led challenge proceeds, but it does not decide the rule’s ultimate legality and notes the need to act before the 2026 election.
A D.C. Circuit panel denied the Kennedy Center’s bid for an emergency stay to keep Donald Trump’s name on the building’s facade, allowing Judge Cooper’s order to remove the name by the deadline to stand; the center will pursue further appeal with briefing later this month, arguing that removal could harm fundraising and confuse the public.
A D.C. Circuit panel ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s policy banning transgender service members rests on unconstitutional animus but limited its impact to the plaintiffs already serving, shielding them from the ban while allowing the policy to remain in place for new enlistees as litigation proceeds; the decision avoids a nationwide injunction and could be reviewed by the full court or the Supreme Court.
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled that Trump’s executive order banning transgender troops from military service illegally barred them, upholding a 2025 district court decision that the policy likely violates constitutional rights and narrowing the injunction to current service members rather than those seeking to join.
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.