In court, lawyers and administration officials often try to minimize the impact of the administration’s most controversial actions and paint them as firmly within legal bounds. Their careful, sworn ...

Just Security, based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, conducted the analysis of ...

A federal judge denied the Department of Defense's effort to block transgender people from enlisting in the U.S. military ...

The judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender individuals from military ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

About 75% of the judges hearing legal challenges to President Donald Trump's executive orders and other policy actions were ...

“Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed – some risking their lives – to ...

Reyes’ opinion sets the bar for resistance to the Trump administration. It will hopefully lead other judges to rule in favor of trans people in similar cases when the law demands it. Opinion ...

Eight inspectors general abruptly fired by President Donald Trump at the start of his second term appeared in federal court Thursday to challenge their dismissals — a long-shot case that ...

Tensions rise as US defense secretary Pete Hegseth mocks federal judge Ana Reyes, who blocked Trump's ban on transgender troops. Reyes ruled that the order likely violates the US Constitution's ...

A federal judge on Thursday said President Donald Trump's firing of eight independent agency watchdogs was likely illegal but suggested that requiring them to be reinstated would be futile.

Reyes ruled that the Trump administration had mischaracterized medical studies in its effort to justify the ban, which Trump enacted in an executive order on the first day of his second term.