Federal courts and lawmakers push back on Trump executive power
Lower courts continue checking the administration over firings, agency shutdowns, birthright-citizenship orders, immigration restrictions, and other executive actions. A Third Circuit ruling against ICE's near-universal detention-without-bond policy deepened an appellate split, while a Cruz-Lee bill proposing to restructure the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits adds a partisan institutional-reform front.
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Updated Aug 31, 2026