2026 Judicial Rulings Thread

[BDKJMU]

Yet somehow the policy of no transvestites in the military under every prior president, Trump 1, Obama, Bush, Clinton, et al wasn‘t ‚’arbitrary and based upon animus‘…

The 2 woke judges are going to be overruled by SCOTUS.

[UNI88]

Yet somehow the policy of no transvestites in the military under every prior president, Trump 1, Obama, Bush, Clinton, et al wasn‘t ‚’arbitrary and based upon animus‘…

The 2 woke judges are going to be overruled by SCOTUS.

Is there anything Whiskeyleaks does that isn't ’arbitrary and based upon animus‘? He's a bigger buffoon then Kos-play kristi.

[UNI88]

Judge halts Trump administration efforts to impose conditions on SNAP

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun granted a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit challenging the conditions for getting SNAP funding. Among them are restrictions related to "gender ideology," "immigration," and "fair athletic opportunities" for women and girls.
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In their lawsuit, the states argued the Agriculture Department has "thrown unconstitutional and unlawful roadblocks between the programs created by Congress and the States that rely on them, threatening critical nutrition support, vital agricultural research, and the safety of our national food chain and communities."

[UNI88]

A federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countries

In a ruling harshly criticizing the administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. said the policy "threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo," and he accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law.

"In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of 'national security' that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making," he wrote. "In legal terms that means USCIS's actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious."

[UNI88]

Trump DOJ Hit With a Wild Series of Bench Slaps

In Florida: U.S. District Judge Kyle Dudek of Ft. Myers, a Trump appointee, issued an apoplectic order in a habeas case after the Trump administration failed to abide by his order to give an ICE detainee a bond hearing.
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Dudek was not having any of it:
The Government was right the first time. And its request for a do-over here is not just legally unsupportable, it is a masterclass in litigation cynicism. A federal court is not a testing lab where the Executive branch can pilot a concession to get a case closed, stand by silently while its own administrative process flouts the resulting mandate, and then stroll back in demanding a clean slate. Give me a break.

But Dudek wasn't done. Rather than just re-order a bond hearing, he ordered the detainee released within 48 hours "because the Government has shown a complete inability to follow judicial directions."

In Rhode Island: Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. popped the Trump administration for not immediately complying with his order to resume making asylum decisions and restart immigration processing.

"It should almost go without saying—but the Court will say it anyway for the sake of 'clarify[ing]' the Government's 'current obligations' — that court orders vacating and setting aside agency policies have immediate effect once they are issued," McConnell wrote.

McConnell gave the administration 24 hours to file a status report on the "specific steps" it's taken to comply with his order: "There is no excuse this time; the Government has an obligation to immediately comply with this Order."

In Illinois: After a federal judge ordered an evidentiary hearing into possible grand jury improprieties in an unrelated fraud case by the same prosecutor implicated in grand jury misconduct in the Broadview Six case, the Trump DOJ folded.

It moved to dismiss charges against two defendants in the rather serious fraud case rather than see its prosecutors, including potentially Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros, hauled to the stand to give sworn testimony about the grand jury proceedings.

In D.C.: Chief Judge James Boasberg rejected a revisionist move by the Trump DOJ to vacate his earlier order quashing grand jury subpoenas in the politicized investigation of the Federal Reserve and its then-chairman Jay Powell. In revisiting his earlier ruling, Boasberg colorfully summarized it thusly:

This Court found that the subpoenas were meant to harass Powell and to pressure him to truckle to the President's policy preferences. It also concluded that the Government had no good-faith basis to believe that Powell was guilty of any crime other than displeasing the President and that the Government's justifications were mere pretexts.

As he rejected the latest move, Boasberg dryly called it "a creative way to clear its loss from the books."