Trump Action Archive

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• Supreme Court grants stay on Education Department layoff order — The Supreme Court's right-wing majority granted a stay on a lower court order blocking the Trump administration from gutting the Department of Education while litigation proceeds. Federal Judge Myong Joun had ordered reinstatement of 1,378 fired workers after nineteen states and D.C. sued to stop the layoffs. The stay permits the layoffs to continue. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented, arguing the majority enabled executive defiance of law and violated separation of powers.
• Preliminary injunction ruling — Somerville Public Schools v. Trump (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10677 — The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to grant a stay of a preliminary injunction that had blocked the administration's plans to dismantle the Department of Education and fire thousands of department employees. The majority did not provide any reasoning. In dissent , Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, warned that the Court's order enables the executive branch to functionally “abolish” an entire department “by executive fiat.”
• Preliminary injunction ruling — State of New York v. McMahon (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10601 — The Supreme Court granted the federal government's request for a stay in the case of McMahon v. New York. This decision temporarily allows the Department of Education to proceed with a reduction in force that impacts nearly 50% of its workforce, approximately 1,378 employees. The stay was granted in a 6-3 decision, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting. The case was initially brought by twenty states and the District of Columbia, challenging the reduction in force as unlawful.
• Supreme Court Grants Stay in McMahon v. New York — The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from the Trump administration, allowing it to move forward with gutting the Department of Education by firing nearly half of the agency's workforce. The decision bypassed lower-court review and normal appellate procedures.
• Supreme Court grants emergency appeal allowing Department of Education workforce cuts

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• Two-thirds of DOJ Federal Programs lawyers resign — Nearly two-thirds of the lawyers in the Department of Justice's Federal Programs unit, responsible for defending Trump administration policies in court, have quit. One departing lawyer told Reuters that many joined the unit to defend constitutional systems but could not participate in "the project of tearing it down." The resignations reflect internal DOJ opposition to the administration's legal positions.

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• Trump Suggests Revoking O'Donnell's Citizenship — On July 12, 2025, President Trump suggested he might revoke comedian Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship, claiming she is a "Threat to Humanity." This statement follows a federal judge's ruling that barred the administration from denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.
• Trump threatened to revoke citizenship of natural-born American citizen Rosie O'Donnell — On July 12, 2025, at approximately 9:42 a.m., President Trump posted on Truth Social that he was "giving serious consideration to taking away" the citizenship of comedian and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, a natural-born American citizen born in New York who has relocated to Ireland. Trump called her "a Threat to Humanity." O'Donnell responded on Instagram, asserting her rights and criticizing Trump's authoritarian posture. A federal judge had barred the administration from denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants on Thursday, July 10.
• Trump threatens to strip Rosie O'Donnell of citizenship — Trump posted on Truth Social that he is "giving serious consideration" to taking away the US citizenship of Rosie O'Donnell, a longtime critic who moved to Ireland after his 2024 election. Trump called O'Donnell "a Threat to Humanity." Legal experts note Trump lacks constitutional authority to unilaterally revoke citizenship.