US EditionNBC: Judges Push Back on Trump’s Expanding Power
Federal judges blocked Trump administration actions citing constitutional violations, including stopping $2 billion funding cuts to Harvard and limiting military use in California, officials said.
- This week, federal judges issued orders blocking President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act , National Guard deployment for law enforcement in California, and freezing over $2 billion in federal funds to Harvard University.
- After an Aug. 29 appeals ruling found overreach, President Donald Trump's tariffs remain until Oct. 14 while the government pursues appeals.
- U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer wrote troops violated the Posse Comitatus Act by engaging in arrests and crowd control, while a two-judge panel granted an injunction after finding no invasion and noted terminated Harvard University research grants.
- The White House said it will appeal U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs' ruling and pursue further review in higher courts, while the administration asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear at least one tariff case in an emergency filing.
- The Supreme Court of the United States has granted many emergency requests, while a federal judge found Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's revocation of Temporary Protected Status unlawful and scrutinized June deployments of National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, California.
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Judges Push Back on Trump’s Expanding Power
After a slew of high-profile successes in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Trump administration found key parts of its agenda blocked in federal court this week, with judges criticizing its actions as “unlawful” and “unconstitutional,” NBC News reports.
Education Sec. McMahon Defends Trump’s Freeze on Harvard Funds, Cites Title VI Violations Education Sec. McMahon Defends Trump’s Freeze on Harvard Funds, Cites Title VI Violations
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon joined “Fox News Sunday” where she defended President Donald Trump’s freezing of Harvard’s funding grants and attempted to relieve concerns about Chinese students in the U.S. While the Trump administration is in the midst of a legal battle with Harvard regarding Trump’s freezing of its federal funding, McMahon reminded Americans of Harvard’s history of censoring Jewish students and faculty on its campus. “Th…
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'Unconstitutional' and 'unlawful': Judges push back on Trump's expanding power
Judges in three separate rulings this week found that the administration's actions with deportations, deploying the National Guard and punishing colleges had...
Harvard Wins Big: Trump’s Funding Ban Reversed by Judge
In one of the most headline-grabbing court decisions this year, a federal judge just ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by abruptly freezing billions in research funding for Harvard University. The White House had tried to push Harvard into changing its policies, using antisemitism as the reason to pull the plug on over $2 billion in grants. Harvard stood its ground, saying the government’s demands were more about politics than tr…
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