Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. The Supreme Court added to the term’s already heavy docket, agreeing on Monday to consider the Trump administration’s quest to quickly end humanitarian protections for Haitians and Syrians. Yet the week’s court news arguably

Former FBI agents allege they were illegally fired for having worked on an investigation that led to President Donald Trump’s indictment in the 2020 election interference case. In a new lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington, two ex-agents said their

The Trump administration has launched its latest urgent complaint to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to immediately halt a lower court order that stops the administration from quickly ending humanitarian immigration protections — this time for Haitians. The government’s

The government’s serial lawbreaking in Donald Trump’s second term raises the recurring question: What are the consequences? It’s an important question with a frequently unsatisfying answer — whether due to the law itself, the judges tasked with carrying it out, or

Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. Supreme Court justices were back on the bench holding hearings this week, most prominently in the appeal over bans on transgender women and girls in sports. They also issued three rulings, including one that

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over state bans on transgender athletes in women’s and girls’ sports. The court’s forthcoming rulings in the two argued cases from Idaho and West Virginia could affect similar laws in 25 other states

Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. I hope you all had better things to do on New Year’s Eve than read Chief Justice John Roberts’ year-end report on the federal judiciary — unless you’re into that sort of thing. The

The federal judge considering whether Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully installed by the Trump administration had ordered the Department of Justice to provide the “complete grand jury transcripts” in James Comey’s case for the judge to review. The

Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. When we left off last week, we were awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s bid to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. We learned this week why that

While his administration prosecutes his political opponents, President Donald Trump is appealing his criminal conviction in a case that he calls “the most politically charged prosecution in our Nation’s history.”Seeking to upend his loss in the so-called