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Court fees can pile up. An effort to make a more effective system stalls after Trump administration cuts
Court fines and fees are meant to hold people accountable. But for many, they lead to debt, arrest, and a cycle that’s hard to break. A project that started in Birmingham aimed to make the system better. But recently, the Trump Administration cancelled an effort to expand the research.
Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify people illegally in U.S.
The decision comes after the acting IRS commissioner resigned over a deal allowing ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification.
Deadline looms in case of Maryland man’s wrongful deportation to El Salvador
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to lift a midnight deadline to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to a prison in El Salvador by mistake, to the U.S.
What happens if Trump starts ignoring court rulings? We break it down
A court finding that the Trump administration did not comply with an earlier order and a recent statement by Vice President JD Vance have some experts warning of a potential constitutional crisis.
Trump’s executive actions are getting challenged as ‘arbitrary.’ What does that mean?
At the center of legal challenges against Trump's executive actions is whether he's telling federal agencies to violate a key legal standard established nearly 80 years ago.