In dueling documents filed in a federal court in San Francisco, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives took opposing positions on future financing of subsidies that have been a key part of the seven-year-old federal health insurance program. Separately, the two groups of leaders asked a federal trial judge to… Read More

Beginning its defense in a federal appeals court of the third version of President Trump’s attempt to block entry of foreign nationals from six Mideast nations, the Administration argued that the new restrictions have nothing to do with religion and are focused only on national security fears. In asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the… Read More

Splitting 2-to-1, a federal appeals court on Friday temporarily barred a Central American teenaged girl, in the country illegally, from getting an abortion in a Texas clinic.  It imposed an 11-day delay in her case, to give government officials time to try to line up a sponsor who could then arrange for her to end… Read More

Arguing that the courts have no power to order the federal government to pay subsidies to sellers of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Trump Administration urged a federal judge in California on Friday not to attempt such a step. At the same time, however, government lawyers suggested that states and the insurance… Read More

A federal judge in San Francisco suggested on Thursday that insurance companies who face an imminent cutoff by the Trump Administration of subsidies for providing health coverage for lower-income people may have a legal right to get those payments anyway. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria made the suggestion as he posed a series of questions… Read More

For the second time in the span of one day, President Trump’s latest attempt to bar entry to the U.S. by foreign nationals from Muslim nations has been blocked by a federal court.  Late Monday night, a Maryland judge imposed a nationwide order against enforcement, in a ruling that was broader than one issued earlier… Read More

President Trump’s third attempt to put strict new limits on immigration from Mideast nations – like the first two – ran into trouble in federal court on Tuesday, with a judge in Hawaii blocking it from going into full effect at midnight. (UPDATE: The Justice Department said it would pursue an “expeditious” appeal.) In a… Read More

Sending another strong signal that the troubled military commission system at Guantanamo Bay won’t be second-guessed by the Supreme Court, the Justices on Monday turned down an attempt to head off a major trial of a high-profile terrorism case.   This marked the second time within a week that the court chose to bypass a Guantanamo… Read More

Eighteen states and the local government in Washington, D.C., asked a federal trial judge on Friday to order the Trump Administration to continue paying billions of dollars in subsidies to health insurance companies to offset some of their costs of providing coverage for lower-income people under the Affordable Care Act. The plea was filed in… Read More

Opening its defense in court of the third version of the Trump Administration’s curbs on immigration, government lawyers on Thursday argued that a wide-ranging new study of the issue severs any link to prior anti-Muslim statements by the President or his aides. Thus, they argued in a new brief filed in a federal court in Maryland,… Read More