⚖️ Legal Victories Against the Trump Administration
This week’s resistance report features federal judges actually doing their jobs (shocking), major blocks to fascist executive orders, and a few courtroom wins that bought us all some breathing room. Here’s what went down:
🧨 Big Wins This Week:
1. DOGE Executive Order Blocked
A federal judge halted Trump’s plan to fire thousands of federal workers through Executive Order 14210. The court stopped the layoffs—for now.
📰 Source: The Daily Beast
2. Apache Land Transfer Stopped
A ruling temporarily blocked the transfer of sacred Apache land to foreign mining corporations. Indigenous sovereignty: 1, Rio Tinto: 0.
📰 Source: Reuters
3. Tufts Student Released
A federal court ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish grad student ICE had detained over alleged political speech. First Amendment: still kicking.
📰 Source: New York Post
4. Federal Grant Freeze Blocked
Judge Loren AliKhan shut down Trump’s attempt to freeze all federal grants, ruling it unlawful and irrational.
📰 Source: Wikipedia – 2025 Federal Grant Pause
5. Birthright Citizenship Order Blocked
Multiple courts ruled Trump’s EO to end birthright citizenship is likely unconstitutional. The 14th Amendment lives another week.
📰 Source: Wikipedia – Executive Order 14160
🧷 Ongoing Resistance in Court:
- Over 186 legal actions are now pending against Trump’s 2025 executive orders.
📰 Source: The Fulcrum - ACLU has filed 53 lawsuits against the administration and won emergency relief in 27 cases.
📰 Source: ACLU
📚 Source List (Clean Links):
- The Daily Beast – Federal Workforce Downsizing Blocked
- Reuters – Apache Land Transfer Temporarily Blocked
- New York Post – Tufts Student ICE Detention Overturned
- Wikipedia – 2025 Federal Grant Pause
- Wikipedia – Executive Order 14160 (Birthright Citizenship)
- The Fulcrum – Lawsuits Against Trump 2025
- ACLU – Lawsuits Against Trump Administration