Matters
Clusters of related cases around a single policy question or set of facts. Each matter tracks the full arc of litigation across courts and instances.
Alien Enemies Act Deportation
The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelans alleged to be Tren de Aragua gang members without immigration proceedings. …
AmeriCorps Dismantling
The Trump administration moved to effectively dismantle AmeriCorps, the federal national-service agency, by terminating grants, firing employees, and halting pr…
Birthright Citizenship
President Trump's January 20, 2025 executive order sought to redefine birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming children born to parents w…
CFPB Dismantling
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose constitutionality was already upheld by the Supreme Court in Seila Law (2020), was effectively shuttered in earl…
Challenge to State Law
The Trump administration filed a wave of offensive lawsuits against individual states, seeking to preempt state laws on immigration enforcement, climate liabili…
Department of Education Dismantling
President Trump signed an executive order directing the dissolution of the Department of Education, which Congress created by statute. Mass reductions-in-force …
DOGE FOIA Suits
Journalists and transparency advocates filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records about DOGE's operations, staffing, and access to federal data s…
DOGE Litigation
Challenges to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a non-statutory body created by President Trump, center on three questions: whether DOGE access to…
Elections Integrity EO
Executive orders issued in early 2025 directed federal agencies to take steps the administration characterized as protecting election integrity, including deman…
FBI Firings
The Trump administration's dismissal of FBI leadership and the firing or forced resignation of scores of FBI agents and senior officials prompted litigation fro…
Federal Grant Cancellation
A wave of federal grant cancellations in early 2025 targeted universities, nonprofits, and state agencies, often citing diversity-equity-inclusion programs, for…
Federal Grant Conditioning
Suits challenging the administration's practice of attaching immigration-enforcement compliance conditions to federal grants for law enforcement, emergency prep…
Federal Grant Terminations
A cluster of suits challenging the Trump administration's mass cancellation of federal grants across public health, education, climate resilience, domestic viol…
Firing of Federal Workers
Mass terminations of federal employees beginning in January 2025 swept across agencies, targeting probationary employees, DEI personnel, and workers perceived a…
H-1B Visa Program Changes
New DHS and USCIS rules in 2025 significantly restricted the H-1B specialty-worker visa program, including heightened specialty-occupation requirements, increas…
Ideological Deportations
The Trump administration has sought to deport or detain a series of individuals on ideological grounds, targeting primarily Palestinian and Muslim activists, fo…
Immigration Detention Conditions
Lawsuits challenging conditions of immigration detention span county jails, ICE processing centers, Guantanamo Bay, and the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador to …
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Matter
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a Maryland construction worker who was deported to a Salvadoran prison in March 2025 in what courts later found was a violation of a pr…
Law Firm Targeting EOs
Beginning in early 2025, President Trump issued executive orders revoking the security clearances of attorneys at law firms that represented political opponents…
National Guard / Federal Enforcement Cluster
In 2025, the Trump administration deployed National Guard units and federal law enforcement in several cities to assist with immigration enforcement operations.…
National Guard Deployment
President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities to assist with immigration enforcement operations ge…
NEH Dismantling
The Trump administration moved to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through a reduction-in-force affecting virtually all staff and a fre…
Removal to Third Country
Challenges to the administration's practice of deporting non-citizens to third countries (El Salvador, Libya, South Sudan, Ghana) without notice or the opportun…
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
NIH and NSF directives in early 2025 imposed caps on indirect-cost recovery rates for university research grants, immediately imperiling billions in federal res…
SEVIS Visa Termination
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is the federal database that tracks the legal status of international students. In spring 2025, the …
SNAP Benefits Suspension
USDA actions in 2025 targeting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program included suspension of certain state waivers for Able-Bodied Adults Without Depende…
TPS Cancellation
Challenges to the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status designations for nationals of Venezuela, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, South …
USAID Dismantling
Litigation challenging DOGE-driven mass firings and the effective shutdown of USAID, an independent agency with a congressionally mandated foreign assistance mi…
Voice of America Dismantling
The Trump administration placed all Voice of America journalists on administrative leave in March 2025 and moved to shut down VOA and its parent agency, the U.S…
Warrantless Immigration Arrests
Suits challenging ICE and DHS enforcement operations that resulted in arrests near courts, in churches, in schools, and without administrative warrants. Plainti…