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11 cases, 79 documents
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J.G.G. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00766 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to circumvent removal procedures and order the immediate removal of Venezuelan nationals from the United States. On March 15, 2025, five detained Venezuelan nationals filed this class action lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald J. Trump, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), and the…
EDUCATION
American Federation of Teachers v. U.S. Department of Education

1:25-cv-00628 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the legality of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights’ February 14, 2025 Dear Colleague Letter that advised educational institutions receiving federal funding to, among other things, stop teaching about systemic racism and race-related topics and ban all programming that supports Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Otherwise, they risked being deemed, or reported as, non-compliant and losing federal funding. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of le…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Democracy Forward Foundation v. U.S. Marshals Service

1:25-cv-00749 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On March 14, 2025, the Democracy Forward Foundation filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Plaintiff had previously filed several requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeking information and documentation relating to (1) potential inappropriate communications between USMS and federal judges about pending cases related to January 6, …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Brehm v. Marocco

1:25-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the attempted shuttering and DOGE access of the United States African Development Foundation. On March 6, 2025, the President of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He named President Donald Trump, DOGE and its Acting Administrator, the Acting Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, the Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, and th…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Center for Taxpayer Rights v. Internal Revenue Service

1:25-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged access to private, secure, and highly sensitive federal data by Elon Musk, the Department of Governmental Efficiency ("DOGE"), and the second Trump Administration. On February 17, 2025, the Center for Taxpayer Rights, the Main Street Alliance, the National Federation of Federal Employees, and the Communications Workers of America filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. They named the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the U.S. Dep…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Vought

1:25-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On February 8, 2025, the Acting Director of the CFPB instructed the agency’s employees to “stand down” from performing any work and notified the Federal Reserve that the CFPB would be requesting $0 for the upcoming quarter. Elon Musk was also involved, posting “CFPB RIP” on social media one day before the announcement. This shutdown occurred within the broader context of the Trump Admini…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

1:25-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a case about an alleged mass data breach of federal employee and taxpayer information and the alleged misuse of government information systems. On February 10, 2025, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a nonprofit focused on digital privacy, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its Acting Secretary, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and its Acting Director, and DOGE…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration

1:25-cv-00596 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the U.S. DOGE Service’s access to sensitive federal information systems. Since President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, the U.S. DOGE Service and Elon Musk allegedly initiated a broad and unlawful campaign to access highly sensitive information systems across multiple federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration. This occurred in the broader context of the Trump Administration’s unprecedented reliance on DOGE, a temporary organization created wi…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Complaint on Behalf of Terminated Probationary Employees

None | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is an administrative complaint filed on Feb. 14, 2025, with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) by complainants (through counsel, Alden Law Group and Democracy Forward), alleging that the Trump Administration's mass termination of thousands of federal probationary employees constituted prohibited personnel practices under 5 U.S.C. 2302, the civil service statute.  They sought to represent a class of all such probationary employees and to stay the terminations.   On Feb. 21, 2025, the Offic…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Ezell

1:25-cv-10276 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) “Fork in the Road” email on January 28, 2025, which was sent to nearly all federal employees and announced a "deferred resignation" program. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 28, 2025, OPM sent an email entitled “Fork in the Road” to nearly all federal career employees. The email announced a purported "deferred re…