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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00381 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's endeavor to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On February 7, 2025, Elon Musk posted, “CFPB RIP” on social media. The next day, the Acting Director of the CFPB instructed CFPB staff to “immediately” stop all work and informed the Federal Reserve that the CFPB would not take any additional funding for its operations in the next quarter. This action happened in the larger context of the Trump Administration’s effort to disman…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Reversed

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Sierra Club v. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-01112 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 14, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to remove information about climate change and environmental justice from government websites without notice. On April 14, 2025, the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Environmental Integrity Project, and California Communities Against Toxics, four environmental and science research nonprofits, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs sued the Environmental Protection Agency …

Preliminary Injunction Denied

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-00617 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

On March 3, 2025, the Environmental Defense Fund filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In Executive Order 14154 titled "Unleashing American Energy" (January 20, 2025), President Donald Trump directed the EPA to reevaluate the 2009 "Endangerment Finding"--EPA's determination that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere threatened the health and welfare of current and future generations, and that emis…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Abramowitz v. Lake

1:25-cv-00887 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 26, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s effective shutdown of Voice of America (VOA) and its grantee networks following Executive Order 14238, “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.” On March 26, 2025, VOA Director Michael Abramowitz and three senior staff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Senior Advisor Kari Lake, and Acting CEO Victor Morales. Represented by private counsel, plain…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Lighthiser v. Trump

2:25-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: May 29, 2025

This case challenges Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” Executive Order 14156, “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,” and Executive Order 14261, “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241,” issued by President Donald Trump. On May 29, 2025, twenty-two citizens from or residing in Montana filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against President Donald Trump, the United States, and seve…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump

3:25-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

This case challenged President Trump’s alleged authority to unilaterally revoke environmental protections and open offshore areas to oil and gas leasing. On January 6, 2025, President Biden permanently withdrew certain areas of the United States’ outer continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico from future oil and gas leasing. On January 20, 2025, an executive order issued by President Trump purported to strip those protections. Plaintiffs alleged t…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Widakuswara v. Lake

1:25-cv-01015 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 21, 2025

This case challenges the grant terminations and the placing of journalists on administrative leave from the United States Agency for Global Media. On March 14, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14238 entitled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” 90 Fed. Reg. 13043, which directed that the "non-statutory components and functions" of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”  USAGM is an indepe…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Oklahoma

5:24-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 21, 2024

This case challenged a state law in Oklahoma criminalizing noncitizen entry and presence in the state. On May 21, 2024, the United States filed suit against the State of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, and both the Governor and Attorney General of Oklahoma (in their official capacities). The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and assigned to District Judge Bernard M. Jones II.  The complaint explained the Oklahoma law at i…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. State of Michigan

1:25-cv-00496 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 30, 2025

This case challenged the state of Michigan's plans to bring a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to hold them liable for their contribution to climate change and its effects. On April 30, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit against Michigan, its Governor, and its Attorney General in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The DOJ argued that Michigan's lawsuit was pre-empted by the Clean Air Act and the federal government's control over foreign affairs, that it w…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New Jersey v. Trump

1:25-cv-10139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted