Overview
- A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia entered a preliminary injunction blocking a proposed payout scheme and required a sworn attestation from the Attorney General and the Treasury Secretary before the injunction can be lifted.
- A district judge in Florida ordered an ICE detainee released after the government reversed a prior concession and failed to secure a bond hearing, scolding DOJ for ignoring court directives.
- In Washington, a judge refused to let the Department of Justice erase an earlier finding that grand-jury subpoenas were meant to harass a former Federal Reserve chair, and another court moved to dismiss fraud charges rather than force prosecutors to testify about grand-jury conduct.
- A judge denied a request to block a White House South Lawn UFC event because plaintiffs lacked standing, while a separate order requiring removal of the President's name from the Kennedy Center remains in effect pending appeal.
- FBI agents searched the Cleveland offices and visited homes of leaders of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative seeking devices and records, a development that civil-rights advocates say risks intimidating voter-registration work and could deepen judicial scrutiny of enforcement choices.