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A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing three incarcerated transgender women into men’s prisons and taking away their gender-affirming healthcare. The order on Tuesday from Washington, D.C. District Judge Royce Lambert – who was appointed by Ronald Reagan – temporarily strikes down part of Trump’s sweeping executive order on gender as a likely violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, landing yet another court-ordered blow to his agenda. A pair of lawsuits filed by incarcerated trans women have accused the president of endangering their lives while stripping them of their healthcare through an...

On 15 May, 2015, a class-action lawsuit was filed against the government of the District of Columbia, for violating the constitutional rights of people who had been arrested before the Wrenn case was decided on July 25, 2021. The lawsuit was brought under the 1983 Civil Rights Act. There originally were 10 claims. Judge Lambert struck down seven of those claims in May of 2019 in a memorandum and opinion.Three claims, numbers I, III, and VI remained. On September 29, 2021, Judge Lambert granted summary judgment for the plaintiffs on claims I and III, and granted summary judgment for the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge awarded conservative legal group Judicial Watch nearly $900,000 for attorney fees and costs stemming from suits for documents related to Commerce Department trade missions in the 1990s. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled last week that the group should be reimbursed for some costs incurred during roughly 10 years of litigation with the department. Judicial Watch sued the Commerce Department in the 1990s for information about the department's trade missions in an effort to document whether businesses won seats on those missions in return for donations to the Democratic Party. The legal group sought...