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Jun 26, 2025 The Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid patients could not sue to enforce provider-choice protections against state exclusions of Planned Parenthood Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
The decision reduced a legal avenue for low-income patients to challenge state restrictions on healthcare access, shifting power toward states and away from beneficiaries.
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- Supreme Court ruling on Medicaid and Planned Parenthood — The U.S.
- Supreme Court Rules Medicaid Patients Can't Sue for Provider Choice — The Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their right to choose a medical provider, allowing states to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs.
- Supreme Court releases opinion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (23-1275) — The Supreme Court released an official slip opinion in Medina v.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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Jun 26, 2025 The Supreme Court limited lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
The ruling reduced one of the judiciary’s main tools for quickly blocking contested executive policies across the country before merits decisions are final.
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- SCOTUS Limits Nationwide Injunctions — The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-3 that nationwide injunctions likely exceed the authority granted to the courts by Congress.
- Supreme Court Limits Judicial Power to Curb Presidential Policies — The U.S.
- Supreme Court Limits Lower Courts' Power to Block Executive Orders — The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of limiting the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, which have been used to block many of Donald Trump's executive orders, including his attempt to end
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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Jun 26, 2025 An appeals court disbarred Kenneth Chesebro for misconduct tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
The disbarment imposed professional accountability for legal work used to attack election certification and democratic transfer of power.
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- Appeals Court Disbars Trump's Former Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro — An appeals court disbarred Kenneth Chesebro, Trump's former lawyer, following his conviction for efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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Jun 24, 2025 The Justice Department sued the federal judges in Maryland over a standing deportation-delay order Corroborated Institutions and Governance
Suing an entire federal bench escalated conflict between the executive and judiciary and challenged courts’ ability to manage due process in removal cases.
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- Trump Administration Sues Maryland Judges Over Deportation Order — The Trump administration sued federal judges in Maryland, challenging an order blocking the immediate deportation of immigrants challenging their removal.
- Trump’s Justice Department Sues Maryland Judges Over Deportation Order — The Trump administration's Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the entire bench of federal judges in Maryland.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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Jun 23, 2025 The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deport migrants to third countries while litigation continued Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
The order narrowed lower-court protections and increased executive room to remove migrants before full judicial review of due process claims.
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- US Supreme Court allows Trump administration to deport migrants to third countries — The US Supreme Court issued a brief, unsigned order allowing the Trump administration to deport migrants to countries they are not originally from, including conflict-ridden areas like South Sudan.
- Case update — D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10676 — The Supreme Court stopped a lower court's order which has prevented the administration from removing immigrants to third countries without an opportunity to present their claims of potential torture first.
- Supreme Court Grants Stay in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. — The Supreme Court granted the Department of Homeland Security's emergency application for a stay in the case of Department of Homeland Security, Applicants v.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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