NASHVILLE DEBATES IMMIGRATION ISSUESVideo:Donald Trump addresses blocked travel ban during Nashville rally | 1:05 A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the ban was set to go into effect. Kyleah Starling/The Tennessean A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, …
President Trump’s motorcade heads down Pennsylvania Avenue as he goes to dinner at the Trump International Hotel on March 25. Updated: 10:26 a.m. ET Two plaintiffs involved in the hotel and restaurant industry have joined a lawsuit alleging …
A legal watchdog group is expanding a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year against President Trump, accusing him of violating the Constitution by continuing to own and profit from his far-flung business empire. The amended complaint, to be filed on Tuesday in a federal court in the Southern District of New York, alleges that Mr. Trump has harmed an organization that represents …
Trump’s lawyers contended that Trump was speaking to security and not the crowd, but the federal judge in the case has already ruled that it’s plausible Trump had incited a riot, allowing the lawsuit to move forward. In Friday’s filing, Trump’s lawyers make several claims in response to the lawsuit, including that Trump had a right to remove protesters from his event, that getting tickets to …
The Daily Mail has apologized to Melania Trump and agreed to pay damages to settle a lawsuit filed by the first lady after the publisher made false claims about her work as a professional model. The settlement was announced in a joint statement from the Daily Mail and Trump’s lawyers. “We accept that these allegations about Mrs. Trump are not true and …
The Trump administration has not yet released concrete details to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it already faces the first of what could be a litany of lawsuits against the president’s signature proposal. The Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson-based conservation group, and U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva, who represents a broad swath of the Arizona border, filed the suit on Wednesday in a Tucson federal court targeting the environmental and fiscal impact of building a nearly 2,000-mile border wall. …
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions doubled-down on the Trump administration’s threat to remove funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. Several mayors and prosecutors across the country have reported in recent months that undocumented immigrants are increasingly avoiding law enforcement, …
Department of Homeland Security withdraws its order to unmask the @ALT_uscis account. While Twitter was prepared to go to court to defend the right to freedom of speech under the first amendment, it appears that the administration of US president Donald Trump has no stomach for a fight. Last week, we reported that Twitter, in response to demands by the Trump …
On Wednesday, 17 US states together filed a legal challenge against the United States Department of Energy (DOE) over efforts to remove or shrink existing climate change regulations. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (pictured center at top), who leads the coalition, claims the federal government has a legal obligation to control and monitor carbon dioxide emissions based on …
The Trump administration is trying to force Twitter to unmask at least one anti-Trump account, according to a new lawsuit. Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. government to block a request to provide personal information about the user behind @ALT_uscis. The account, whose name stands for alternative U.S.