Court Finds Michigan Coal Emergency Lacked An Emergency
A unanimous panel ruled that the Energy Department’s last-resort authority did not cover a long-planned power-plant retirement.
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Execution Orders
31 stories on fileBold, decisive governance by signature. Action first, measure once, cut twice, and let the courts read it later.
Justice Department Preserves The 2024 Election For Further Inspection
Letters to 29 states and the District of Columbia ordered litigation holds on records that election officials say federal law already requires them to retain.
Appeals Court Leaves Mail Ballots In The Mail
A three-judge panel kept a block on federal rules that required states to preclear envelopes and upload voter lists to a portal not yet operating.
New Mexico Successfully Remains New Mexico
The president proposed ‘New America’ in a series of posts, while the state constitution continued using the name it already has.
Schools Reported Gender-Based Bullying. The Education Department Hid The Numbers.
The federal civil-rights survey now protects students from troubling information by replacing every relevant figure with an executive-order suppression code.
Whistleblower Says ICE Put Job Offers Ahead Of Fingerprints
The agency hired 12,000 officers in under a year while basic identity, credit and criminal checks struggled to keep their place in line.
Family Planning Grants Now Include A Five-Year Plan For Agreeing With The Administration
Twenty-three states sued after HHS required applicants and recipients to remain aligned with federal policy priorities.
America First Refugee Aid Nearly Doubles For The Refugees America Is Still Admitting
Initial support could rise to $4,500 per person as South Africans account for more than 99 percent of this year's refugee arrivals.
Space Academy Opens With No School, Campus, Curriculum, Or Authority
The executive order announced a federal academy. Its operative achievement is a commission with 120 days to propose what establishing one would require.
Court Restores Free Speech To People Who Might Use It Wrong
A federal judge struck down deportation provisions used against noncitizens for protected political speech after student journalists stopped covering protests out of fear.
ICE Sets Second-Term Arrest Record After Expanding Beyond People With Criminal Records
The agency arrested 49,571 people in July. More than half had no criminal conviction and no pending criminal charge.
Border Security Pauses At Big Bend To Protect The Park From Border Security
Bulldozers began clearing land before officials finalized what they planned to build. A court agreement stops the work until September 15.
Wyoming Investigates Federal Election Monitors For Monitoring Too Aggressively
Two Justice Department officials tried to interview voters and examine tabulators after their notice may have gone to the wrong email address.
ICE Buys $16.7 Million Of Electric Gloves To Make De-Escalation Hurt On Contact
The no-bid order covers 6,000 pairs designed to gain compliance from detainees and protesters through painful electrical pulses.
Border Wall Crews Cross Tribal Land Past No-Trespassing Signs To Stop Unauthorized Crossings
The Tohono O'odham Nation says masked federal agents blocked tribal police while contractors drilled at three sites.
EPA Helps Drivers Save $790 Billion By Valuing Their Fuel Savings At 23 Cents On The Dollar
Economists say correcting that and other assumptions turns the agency's claimed benefit into a $670 billion cost.
Supreme Court Clears The President To Restrict The Mail Voting He Personally Uses, Adds That Time Will Tell
The justices lifted the block on his order without deciding whether anything done under it is legal. 'Time will tell,' they wrote, of a midterm two months away.
President Orders 1,000 Rocket Launches A Year By 2030, Beginning Whenever
A new memorandum sets a target of a thousand annual launches. It does not say who is building, paying for, or catching them.
President Nominates A Committed Believer To Lead The Agency Built On Waiting For The Evidence
Heidi Overton would run the FDA weeks after co-signing an order that cut the childhood vaccine schedule with no new data behind it.
Judge Rules The Government Cannot Simply Move The FBI To A Building It Likes Better
A federal judge blocked the plan to relocate FBI headquarters to a Washington office building, finding the administration illegally diverted money Congress had set aside for a new Maryland campus.
Judge Again Blocks Trump Mail-Voting Order Ahead of Midterms
The administration calls it election security. The court says the executive branch cannot regulate elections with fewer than 90 days to go.
After Firing 17 Federal Watchdogs, President Replaces Oversight With Mirror
The termination emails said 'changing priorities.' The new priority appears to be flattering angles.
President Renames Gulf Of Mexico 'Gulf Of America'; Mexico And Cuba, Which Also Border It, Were Not Asked
The map now shows a different name depending on which country you're standing in.
Armed Forces Bravely Weaken Themselves; Rival Nations Confused But Grateful
The Pentagon discharges thousands of soldiers who passed every test, citing the danger of them being too prepared.
President Signs Executive Order To Make America's Showers More Powerful
It rolls back a water-efficiency rule and promotes a years-long presidential grievance to federal policy.
Deportation Dragnet Nets Four Founding Fathers, Dozens Of U.S. Citizens, Zero Intended Targets
'The system is working exactly as designed,' says the agency now detaining a bronze statue of Paul Revere.
President Orders A Federal 'National Strategy To End The Use Of Paper Straws'
'They break, they explode,' the president explained, of straws.
America Makes English Its Official Language For The First Time In 249 Years; The Catch Is In The Fine Print
The order's symbolic half declares that America speaks English. Its operational half quietly revokes help for the Americans who don't.
Treasury Stops Making The Penny After Confirming It Costs Nearly Four Cents To Make A Penny
The move saves about $56 million a year. It only took nineteen years of losing money on the coin to stop making the coin.
President Orders Creation Of A National Savings Fund; The Nation Is $39 Trillion In Debt
Sovereign wealth funds are built from money left over. The U.S. runs a deficit.
Court Orders President's Name Removed From The Kennedy Center, Ruling Only Congress Can Rename It
He had himself installed as chairman, then his name appeared on the building. A judge has now taken it back off.