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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees v. Trump

1:25-cv-00352 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is about the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). On February 6, 2025 the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and seek a temporary restraining order. This case was assigned to Judge Carl J. Nichols. Represented by nonprofit counsel, Public Citizen Litigation Group and Democracy Forward,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CASA Inc. v. Trump

8:25-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

1:25-cv-01935 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident of the United States in possession of a green card who had recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia. On March 8, 2025, agents from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) detained Khalil at his apartment, stating that his student visa had…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00412 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the termination of a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board. On February 11, 2025, Cathy Harris, a duly appointed/confirmed Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She sued President Trump, the Secretary of Treasury, the Acting Chairman of the Merit System Protection Board, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Director and Deputy Director of the White H…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Page v. Trump

1:20-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 2021

This case concerns the constitutionality of the District of Columbia’s lack of congressional representation. On January 15, 2020, a resident of the District of Columbia, filed a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Donald Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States. The plaintiff alleged that the District of Columbia should be given representation in Congress as it is actually a state. The plaintiff claimed violation of article I o…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hoge v. Padilla

2:19-cv-01985 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2019

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2020

This is a case alleging violations of the National Voter Registration Act by California's failure to determine the citizenship of voter applicants. On October 1, 2019, three California voters, represented by private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California against the California Secretary of State and the Director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).  Plaintiffs alleged that the California Secretary of State and Cali…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Wilson & Oglala Sioux Tribe Election Commission

5:22-cv-05095 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2022

Closed Date: June 13, 2023

In this case, an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe invoked the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Rights to have the Department of the Interior investigate and prosecute the Oglala Sioux Tribe Election Commission for breaking certain rules governing elections that were permitted by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Commission.   On December 2, 2022, Plaintiff, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, commenced this action pro se in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota against the Ogl…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
University of California Student Association v. Carter

1:25-cv-00354 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Department of Education's release of sensitive and personal information to the  Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  When President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, one of his first acts was the issuance of an executive order establishing a “Department of Government Efficiency.” In the executive order, President Trump renamed the United States Digital Service as the United States DOGE Service (USDS) and ordered the USDS administrator to work with Agenc…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Lentini v. Department of Government Efficiency

1:25-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged the legality of the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) established by President Donald Trump via executive order on January 20, 2025 and led by Trump-appointees Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (who has since stepped down). On January 20, 2025, two individual US citizens and a non-profit representing the interests of federal employees (National Security Counselors, Inc.) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plain…
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

Case Ongoing

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …