Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda

The Trump administration’s sweeping policy changes face a number of lawsuits.

In many of these cases, the courts have let the administration’s policies stay in effect, but in more than 100 cases, the courts have issued preliminary injunctions, or temporary restrictions on the administration’s directives.

Here is a snapshot of where the lawsuits against President Trump stand[.]

Lambert here: Their DOGE section follows. If these is an ordering principle to the table rows, I can’t discern it. As with Lawfare’s tracker, “Trials of the Trump Administration”, I have tagged the case names without normalizing them. I have also tagged plaintiffs and defendants, but normalized per house style, as the case names often do not do (e..g, “American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations” not AFL-CIO).

DOGE

In the first few months of Mr. Trump’s second term, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency moved to enact a series of sweeping cuts across the government including eliminating government agencies like the U.S. Institute of Peace and firing broad swaths of federal workers.

Appealed · May 22

U.S. Institute of Peace v. Jackson

The Trump administration took over and gutted the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent nonprofit created by Congress to seek diplomatic solutions to global conflicts. The administration’s action resulted in a series of events that included a dramatic confrontation among agency staff, DOGE representatives, private security and law enforcement authorities. A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of officials ejected by the White House, but an appeals court stayed the order, yielding control of the institute back to Mr. Trump while the case proceeds.

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