Ruling that transgender people probably have a constitutional right to be treated equally by the government, a federal judge in the nation’s capital temporarily blocked the Trump Administration on Monday from barring them from serving in the military. In a 76-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly gave transgender individuals now in the military a… Read More

Tentatively accepting the Trump Administration’s view that Congress has not put up any money to cover federal subsidies for health insurance companies, a federal judge in California on Wednesday refused – at least for now – to order a resumption of those payments. This year, those subsidies were running at about $600 million a month before… Read More

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ended its review of President Trump’s power to curb entry into the U.S. of foreign nationals and refugees, dismissing the remaining test case on its docket raising that question.  At least two new cases, however, are making their way to the Justices, renewing that basic controversy, perhaps in the current… Read More

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