Kyle Cheney
Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and Jan. 6
- JUST IN: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a block on efforts by CREW to obtain details of DOGE's operations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown scholar detained amid Trump's crackdown on foreign academics with pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel views. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- JUST IN: Judge rules DOJ canceled grants to the American Bar Association in retaliation for criticizing the Trump administration. He has enjoined the department from terminating the grants on that basis. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
- NEW: Top House Democrats are asking the Treasury Department for "suspicious activity reports" on WinRed, Musk's America PAC and Trump family crypto ventures. It follows Trump's targeting of ActBlue. w/ @andrewjfhoward www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- New court filing tonight shows that Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who participated in pro-Palestine protests, was named alongside Mahmoud Khalil in Secretary Rubio's letter terminating their status as legal permanent residents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- MORE: The letter was attached to a newly unsealed search warrant showing that the Trump administration wanted to search the apartments of two Columbia students — Chung and Ranjani Srinivasan — for evidence that Columbia was "harboring" them. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- NOTABLE: The Trump administration argued that revocation of Srinivasan's F-1 visa made her immediately deportable. That is the opposite of what DOJ has been arguing in more recent round of F-1 visa terminations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- JUST IN: Judge Xinis says the DOJ has failed to file a privilege log regarding invocation of the state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case. She's giving them until 3pm or will construe it as "intentional refusal" to comply. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- UPDATE: The administration filed its Abrego Garcia privilege log under seal, saying public filing could endanger “ongoing diplomatic negotiations.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- JUST IN: A federal judge in Pennsylvania became the first to back President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, saying Trump's description of Tren de Aragua's "incursion" into the United States satisfies the AEA's definition. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- But Judge Haines, a Trump appointee to the bench, also said the administration was providing an unconstitutional level of notice to those targeted by the AEA. She is order 21 days, up from the government's suggested 12-24 hours. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
