Administrative Law

Supreme Court, for now, blocks Trump from firing Fed board member Lisa Cook

The Supreme Court on Monday blocked President Donald Trump from immediately firing a Democratic appointee to the Federal Reserve Board, a major ruling that preserves the independence of the powerful central bank, which guides the U.S. economy.

Jun 29, 2026 12:11 PM CDT

Federal judge bars ICE from making arrests at immigration courts

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide ban on policies by the Trump administration allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest immigrants going to and from immigration court hearings.

Jun 24, 2026 12:03 PM CDT

Employees sue USDA secretary over ‘increasingly proselytizing’ Christian emails

Employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the union representing the agency’s workers are suing the secretary of the deparment over a series of emails promoting Christianity.

May 14, 2026 1:35 PM CDT

Judge rejects HHS Secretary Kennedy’s attempt to limit gender-affirming care for minors

A federal judge in Oregon has found that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, acted "with cruelty” when he restricted federal funding to medical providers who provide gender-affirming care to minors.

Apr 21, 2026 12:31 PM CDT

Supreme Court hands win to Chevron, Big Oil in environmental damage case

The Supreme Court on Friday sided with oil giant Chevron, ruling that it can fight an environmental damage lawsuit in federal court—a decision that could affect the outcomes of nearly a dozen other lawsuits that make similar allegations about the oil and gas industry.

Apr 17, 2026 1:22 PM CDT

EEOC reverses course on transgender workers’ right to choose restrooms

In a 2-1 ruling this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows federal agencies “to maintain single-sex bathrooms and similar intimate spaces” and “to exclude employees, including trans-identifying employees, from opposite-sex facilities.”

Feb 27, 2026 10:20 AM CST

Supreme Court appears likely to allow Lisa Cook to remain on Fed board

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to block President Donald Trump from immediately firing Democratic-appointed Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve board, a move that would prevent Trump from exerting greater influence over the powerful central bank that guides the economy.

Jan 21, 2026 12:30 PM CST

Yale Law promotes deputy dean, will be second woman in dean role

Yale Law School has named its new dean, effective Feb. 1, 2026, the university announced Friday.

Dec 22, 2025 10:19 AM CST

Supreme Court will consider president’s power to remove commissioners of independent agencies

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to consider whether statutory protections against removal violate the separation of powers.

Sep 23, 2025 9:50 AM CDT

Wanted: Temporary immigration judges, no experience necessary

The U.S. Department of Justice is fighting a backlog of immigration cases by rolling back restrictions on who can be hired as temporary immigration judges and filling some of the positions with military lawyers.

Sep 4, 2025 8:57 AM CDT

Chemerinsky: SCOTUS rulings on shadow docket cases should be fully heard before becoming binding precedent

Should a Supreme Court ruling on its emergency docket be deemed binding precedent in the lower courts? Until recently, I would have thought no, the law would not allow it. Rulings on the emergency docket are without the benefit of full briefing or any oral argument. Often there is little or even no explanation from the court.

Sep 2, 2025 8:51 AM CDT

Emergency docket orders should ‘inform’ courts in similar cases, SCOTUS says

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove, for now, three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, pointing to its prior emergency docket order allowing the firing of board members of two other independent agencies.

Jul 25, 2025 9:26 AM CDT

Education funding freeze violates ‘multiple statutory and regulatory commands,’ says suit by Democratic states

A lawsuit filed Monday by Democratic officials in 24 states and the District of Columbia seeks the release of billions of dollars in federal education funding that has been frozen by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Management and Budget. The decision to withhold $6.8 billion for…

Jul 15, 2025 12:34 PM CDT

Lawyer for ABA, foreign-aid recipients tells DC Circuit US must spend appropriated ‘pots of money’

Congress in 2024 “appropriated very specific pots of money for foreign assistance purposes” and required the executive branch to spend the full amount, a lawyer representing the ABA and other groups challenging funding cutoffs told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday.

Jul 8, 2025 1:35 PM CDT

More class action suits, shadow docket rulings may follow SCOTUS decision nixing nationwide injunctions

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision limiting nationwide injunctions Friday left open the possibility of workarounds and more work for the high court, according to analyses by two law professors.

Jun 30, 2025 1:25 PM CDT