Judge blocks government lawyers from quitting census fight "Defendants provide no reasons, let alone 'satisfactory reasons,' for the substitution of counsel," the judge wrote. By: Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press July 9
Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional A three-judge federal appeals court panel agreed with a lower court judge who said President Donald Trump violates the First Amendment when he blocks critics on his Twitter account. By: Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press July 9
Justice Department shaking up legal team on census case The change announced Sunday comes days after the department vowed to continue to try to find a legal path forward to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. By: Mike Balsamo, The Associated Press July 8
Mystery of NSA leak lingers as stolen document case winds up The arrest of a contractor for the National Security Agency followed news of a devastating disclosure of government hacking tools by a mysterious internet group calling itself the Shadow Brokers. By: Tami Abdollah and Eric Tucker, The Associated Press July 8
Supreme Court allows partisan districts, blocks census query On the court's final day of decisions before a summer break, the justices dealt blows to efforts to combat the drawing of electoral districts for partisan gain and put a hold on a Trump administration effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. By: Mark Sherman, The Associated Press June 27
Federal judges send 2020 census lawsuit back to lower court The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision comes a day after U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland suggested in an opinion that racial discrimination and partisan power plays could be the underlying motives in asking everyone in the country about citizenship status. By: David McFadden, The Associated Press June 25
Feds: Ex-CIA employee waged ‘information war’ against US Prosecutors said an ex-CIA employee must be kept isolated in the Metropolitan Correction Center after he declared the "information war" against the United States, threatening to reveal all classified information he knew unless he was released. By: Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press June 19
Judge rejects Congress’ challenge of border wall funding A federal judge on Monday denied a House request to prevent President Donald Trump from tapping Defense Department money for his proposed border wall with Mexico, saying Congress lacked authority to sue. By: Elliot Spagat and Colleen Long, The Associated Press June 3
Mueller: Special counsel probe did not exonerate Trump The special counsel’s remarks, made May 29 in his first in public since being tasked two years ago with investigating Russian interference to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election, stood as a strong rebuttal to Trump’s repeated claims that he was exonerated and that the inquiry was a “witch hunt” that found no crime. By: Eric Tucker, Michael Balsamo and Chad Day, The Associated Press May 29
Judge blocks Trump from building sections of border wall using Defense Department funding A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, delivering what may prove a temporary setback on one of his highest priorities. By: Daisy Nguyen, The Associated Press and Elliot Spagat, The Associated Press May 26
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