| 2026-10-20 | Associate AG Woodward Files Motions to Disqualify Judges Schiltz and Tunheim in Minnesota Cases Over Their New York Times Interviews
3 src Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | SG's Universal-Vacatur Petition Is No. 26-491, HHS v. Texas Medical Association: A No Surprises Act Rule Case From the Fifth Circuit En Banc, Response Due Nov. 13
2 src D. John Sauer · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Limit Courts' Power to Vacate Agency Rules Universally
1 src D. John Sauer · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-30 | DOJ Files Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Minnesota Judges Schiltz and Tunheim Over New York Times Interviews, Asks for Their Recusal from DHS Cases
2 src Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter | | reported |
| 2026-09-24 | EOIR Swears In 47 New Immigration Judges and 6 Temporary Immigration Judges at Columbia, SC Investiture
2 src Executive Office for Immigration Review · Todd Blanche | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Trump Judicial Confirmation Push Accelerates as Midterms Threaten Republican Senate Majority
3 src Donald Trump · United States Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-07 | Ballotpedia Logs 27 Article III Vacancies as the Court-Expansion Debate Resurfaces Before the Midterms
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-03 | DOJ Files Its Second SCOTUS Emergency Application on the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, 61 Days Before Midterms
5 src U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-03 | Judge Boardman Blocks Trump's Second Birthright-Citizenship Order: 'No Presidential Executive Order Can Undo What the Supreme Court Has Done'
3 src Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-03 | Michigan Supreme Court Denies Mandamus, Killing Proof-of-Citizenship Ballot Measure Hours After SCOTUS Also Declines to Intervene
5 src Brett Kavanaugh | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-02 | House Defeats Keep Nine Amendment 212-206, Far Short of the Two-Thirds Needed
3 src Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-31 | TRAC Reports 279 Immigration Judges Fired or Resigned in FY2025–FY2026 (38% Turnover) as Asylum Denials Hit 94%
2 src Executive Office for Immigration Review · Donald Trump | | reported |
| 2026-08-27 | Sosnava Rodriguez v. Ortega: The Actual Case Behind the 5th Circuit's 90-Day Bond-Hearing Reversal — Docket Posture, Panel, and En Banc Argument Ahead of September 2026 Sitting
8 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · American Immigration Council · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-08-26 | Talwani Vacates Her Own Mail-Ballot Injunction After SCOTUS Stay; USPS Publishes the Final Rule the Same Day
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · U.S. Postal Service · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Stay 6-3 Lifts Block on Trump Mail-Ballot EO Ten Weeks Before Midterms
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Indira Talwani · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-22 | Analysis Finds 97 Percent of Trump DOJ Emergency SCOTUS Filings Claim Judges Are Interfering With Presidential Power
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Justice · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Trump Names Nine District Nominees as the Rudofsky Pick Puts the First Trump-Majority Appeals Court in Reach
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | Disputed: Six Republican States Were Not Scheduling August Special Sessions After Callais, Their Maps Were Enacted Earlier
3 src Texas Legislature · North Carolina General Assembly · Florida Legislature · Tennessee General Assembly · +2 | | disputed |
| 2026-08-13 | BIA Overturns 14-Year Precedent: Advance Parole Travel Now Triggers 10-Year Inadmissibility Bar
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Executive Office for Immigration Review | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Federal Judge Poised to Block Warrantless ICE Arrest Tactics Across 19-Million-Person LA Region
2 src Gregory Bovino · ACLU · Public Counsel · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Fifth Circuit Panel Restores Nine Texas SB 1 Voting Provisions on Standing Grounds Weeks Before Midterms
3 src Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Abelson Vacates Howard County's Permit Revocations, Clearing Elkridge ICE Warehouse Conversion to Resume
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days
4 src Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-08 | Senate Confirms Trump's Former Defense Lawyer Todd Blanche as Attorney General, 50-49
5 src Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Bill Cassidy · Susan Collins · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Trump Judicial Pipeline Slows After 53 Confirmations in 18 Months — All Circuit Vacancies Filled, 49 Seats Left
3 src Donald Trump · United States Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Trump Signs New Birthright Citizenship Executive Orders Weeks After SCOTUS Ruled the Restriction Unconstitutional
1 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Chief Judge McConnell Discloses Six Death Threats; Loomer Doxxed His Daughter After Funding-Freeze Ruling
3 src John McConnell · Laura Loomer · U.S. Marshals Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Federal Judge Holds DHS in Contempt for Failing to Preserve ICE Agents' Personal Phone Records From LA Sweeps
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | DOJ Voter-Roll Suits Against Colorado, D.C. Both Dismissed — Colorado Ruling Forecloses Refiling
2 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Senate Judiciary Advances Blanche AG Nomination 12-10 as Catalog Documents 200+ Instances of DOJ 'Presumption of Regularity' Collapse
3 src Todd Blanche · Senate Judiciary Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | SCOTUS Sets August 3 Response Deadline on Trump's Emergency Mail-Ballot Appeal as Midterms Near
3 src Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | DOJ Directs US Attorneys to Submit Adverse Rulings as Judicial Impeachment Fodder; Blanche Calls It 'War' on the Judiciary
4 src Todd Blanche · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Ninth Circuit Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory Detention Expansion, Joining Four Other Circuits Against the Fifth and Eighth
3 src Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | Trump and DOJ Jointly Petition SCOTUS to Vacate $83M Carroll Verdict, Substitute Government as Defendant
2 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | ProPublica: Federal Judges Nationwide Chastise DOJ Lawyers for 'Unlawful,' 'Unethical' Conduct as Presumption of Regularity Erodes
1 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Trump Administration Races to SCOTUS Shadow Docket for Mail-Ballot Restrictions After First Circuit Upholds Block
2 src Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-23 | DHS General Counsel James Percival Publishes "Worst of the Worst, District Judge Edition" Naming Four Federal Judges, Triggering Ethics Complaint by 128 Retired Jurists
5 src Paula Xinis · Department of Homeland Security · Democracy Defenders Fund |
| confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | DOJ Files First-Ever Application to Activate Dormant Alien Terrorist Removal Court in 30-Year History
5 src Department of Justice · Trump Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | Todd Blanche, Trump's Former Personal Defense Lawyer, Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing for Permanent Attorney General
1 src Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Justices Barrett and Kagan Testify to Congress on Ethics; Kagan Backs Independent Enforcement Panel
3 src Amy Coney Barrett · Elena Kagan · United States Congress | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Raskin to Acting AG Blanche: DOJ Pattern of Defying Court Orders 'Strongly Suggests' Prosecutors Ordered to Violate the Law
1 src Jamie Raskin · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice | | disputed |
| 2026-07-14 | Supreme Court Rules for Trump in Slaughter, Erasing 90-Year Humphrey's Executor Precedent on Agency Removal
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission | | disputed |
| 2026-07-14 | Trump Personal Attorney Schwartz Confirmed to Second Circuit 50-45; Total Reaches 281 Article III Judges
2 src United States Senate | | reported |
| 2026-07-13 | Federal Judge Voids Trump's $1.8B IRS Settlement, Finds Bad Faith, Refers Attorney to Bar
2 src Donald Trump · Alejandro Brito | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-10 | 5th Circuit En Banc Vacates Panel Ruling, Leaving the No-Bond Detention Policy in Place
5 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-10 | Nevada Federal Judge Rules ICE Is 'Rebelling' Against Court Order, Forces Release of 17 Detainees
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-10 | Retired Federal Judges Launch 'Justice in Motion' Bus Tour, Drawing Comparison to Post-PiS Poland
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-10 | Trump Fires Election Assistance Commission's Two Democratic Commissioners, Hicks and Hovland, Ten Days After Humphrey's Executor Overturned; Republican McCormick Allowed to Resign
4 src Donald Trump · Election Assistance Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-09 | Bipartisan Congress Investigates FBI Director Kash Patel Over Jet Junkets, BMW Fleet, and Undisclosed Stock
2 src Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · Jamie Raskin · Dick Durbin | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-07 | DOJ Threatens Criminal Prosecution of Election Officials in All 50 States, Deploys Monitors to Democratic Jurisdictions
2 src Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-02 | 5th Circuit Rules Due Process Requires Bond Hearings After 90 Days in ICE Detention, Deepening Circuit Split
3 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-02 | ProPublica: Supreme Court's October 2025 Term First to Decide More Cases by Shadow Docket Than Argued Opinion
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · ProPublica | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | Supreme Court Eliminates Nationwide Injunctions, Stripping the Broadest Judicial Check on Executive Action
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright-Citizenship Executive Order at Term's End
5 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-29 | Supreme Court Overturns Humphrey's Executor, Grants President At-Will Firing Power Over Independent Agencies
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · John Roberts · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-27 | SCOTUS poised to grant Trump at-will firing power over independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-25 | SCOTUS in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado lets Trump turn away asylum-seekers metered at the border, 6-3
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-23 | Eight Prairieland ICE-Protest Defendants Sentenced to 30–100 Years in First Federal Antifa Terrorism Case
4 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-18 | SCOTUS Unanimously Strikes Down Drug-User Gun Ban (US v. Hemani) — Bruen Extension Narrows Federal Criminal Firearms Law
3 src Neil Gorsuch · Donald Trump · Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2026-06-15 | SCOTUS Grants Cert in Genalo v. Black, No. 25-886, on Prolonged Immigration Detention and Bond Hearings; Case Later Dismissed
6 src Supreme Court of the United States · Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-12 | After Callais + Alabama Orders, Southern Republicans Race to Redraw Maps Eliminating Majority-Black Districts
4 src Hakeem Jeffries | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-02 | SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Order Reinstates Alabama GOP Map for 2026, Staying Lower-Court Finding of Intentional Racial Discrimination
5 src Alabama Legislature · ACLU | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-01 | Boasberg criminal-contempt case stalled while Bove, central to it, is confirmed to the Third Circuit
3 src James Boasberg · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-01 | Supreme Court Denies Cert in Bestwall, Leaving 'Texas Two-Step' Bankruptcy Intact for Solvent Corporations to Offload Tort Liability Away From Victims
4 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | Trump DOJ Asks Court to Pause Section 122 Tariff Ruling; Signals Emergency Supreme Court Appeal if Denied
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Court of International Trade · Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Florida Circuit Judge Lee Marsh Disqualified From Redistricting Challenge After State Officials' Motion
6 src Ron DeSantis | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-06 | Eleventh Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy in Hernandez Alvarez, Splitting From the Fifth and Eighth Circuits
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-04 | SCOTUS 6-3 Callais Ruling Immediately Effective, Voiding 100K Ballots; Roberts Court Completes VRA Gutting
3 src John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · Neil Gorsuch · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-14 | D.C. Circuit Panel Grants Mandamus Ending Boasberg's Criminal Contempt Proceedings; Full Court Vacated the Order June 22
6 src James Boasberg · Todd Blanche · Emil Bove · Kristi Noem | | reported |
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians
5 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders
4 src Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-04 | Senate Confirms Peterson to Alaska Federal Bench Despite Election Denial
3 src Senate Judiciary Committee · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Supreme Court to Hear Birthright Citizenship Challenge in April
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · American Civil Liberties Union · D. John Sauer | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Presidential Removal Power in Trump v Cook
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · Brett Kavanaugh · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-20 | Supreme Court Issues Three Unanimous Rulings on Federal Procedures
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Amy Coney Barrett · Samuel Alito | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-23 | SCOTUS (6-3, Trump v. Illinois) Blocks Chicago National Guard Federalization; Trump Stands Down From Chicago/LA/Portland, Vows to 'Come Back Stronger'
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Amy Coney Barrett · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Orders FBI to Compile "Domestic Terrorism" List Targeting Political Beliefs
4 src Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Donald Trump · Kash Patel |
| reported |
| 2025-11-06 | Supreme Court Issues Emergency Stay Allowing Trump Administration to Withhold $4 Billion in SNAP Food Benefits
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell · USDA |
| reported |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals
3 src U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Federalist Society |
| reported |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration |
| reported |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap
3 src Heritage Foundation · Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court |
| reported |
| 2025-08-20 | US Imposes Unprecedented Sanctions on Four International Criminal Court Officials
5 src Marco Rubio · Volker Türk |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-29 | Senate Confirms Emil Bove to Third Circuit Court of Appeals 50-49 Despite DOJ Mass-Resignation Record and Whistleblower Allegations
4 src Emil Bove · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice · Danielle Sassoon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-06 | DC Circuit Rules 2-1 That Trump Can Bar AP from White House Events
5 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Associated Press · White House · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight
4 src Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Lauren Boebert | | confirmed |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention
4 src Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Josh Kaul |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-20 | Musk PAC Offers $100 to Wisconsin Voters for 'Anti-Activist Judge' Petition
3 src Elon Musk · Josh Kaul · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-19 | Musk Calls for Judicial Impeachment Wave, Supports GOP Lawmakers
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-11 | Heritage Foundation Hosts Closed-Door Washington Workshop With Hungary's MCC and Poland's Ordo Iuris on Dismantling the European Commission and European Court of Justice
2 src Heritage Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers
15 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-06-24 | Roake v. Brumley Filed — Multi-Faith Coalition Challenges Louisiana Ten Commandments Mandate; 5th Circuit En Banc Reinstates Law (Feb. 2026)
3 src ACLU · Freedom From Religion Foundation · Jeff Landry |
| confirmed |
| 2024-05-27 | Danube Institute 'Rule of Law as Lawfare' Conference Convenes US Heritage Foundation, Polish Supreme Court, Israeli Overhaul Author, and Federalist Society-Orbit Scholars in Budapest
4 src Heritage Foundation · John Yoo | | confirmed |
| 2024-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events
4 src Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Charles Koch · David Koch · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +8 |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief
3 src John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
12 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 |
| confirmed |