Judge partially blocks passport policy

Judge partially blocks Trump's passport changes

BOSTON — A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to New Orleans jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy

An incarcerated man uses the telephone at the Orleans Parish Justice Center jail on April 8, 2025. (John Gray / Verite News)NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is pushing forward with her efforts to force Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to drop a longtime policy that generally prohibits deputies from directly engaging in federal immigration enforcement within the city’s jail. In legal filings, Murrill claims the policy — whi…

Judge partially blocks passport policy

BOSTON — A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

Judge blocks Trump’s anti-trans passport policy for six litigants

On April 18, U.S. District Judge Julia Sobick of Massachusetts ruled that the U.S. State Department has to issue passports to six transgender and non-binary people while litigation continues challenging President Donald Trump’s policy recognizing people only by their sex assigned at birth, media outlets reported.However, Sobick didn’t block the Trump administration’s passport policy nationwide, as other judges have done in blocking other policie…