The 2-1 ruling keeps in place a decision from U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle, who blocked Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship and decried what he described as the administration’s attempt to ignore the Constitution for political gain. Coughenour was the first to block the order.

Two Idaho senators are pushing to reorganize the country's current circuit court of appeals structure to alleviate what they view as an overburdened court system.

"Defendants have made a strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits," U.S. Department of Justice attorneys wrote in a motion for a stay pending appeal seeking to pause U.S. District Judge Amir H.

The Senate has narrowly voted to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.

Contested nominations to the federal courts often involve ideological concerns. But a scholar of the courts says the contentious nomination of a former lawyer for Donald Trump is different.

More than three months after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals “temporarily” blocked contempt of court proceedings against the Trump administration in the original Alien Enemies Act (AEA) case, it showed signs of life for the first time yesterday — but only after the detainees at CECOT were repatriated to Venezuela over the weekend.

A federal appeals court on Monday lifted an administrative stay allowing the Trump administration to proceed with revoking temporary protected status for migrants from Afghanistan and Cameroon. In its ruling,