SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on its 23 million registered voters, concluding that the government's request was “unprecedented and illegal.” The Trump administration's lawsuit, filed last year, contended that California and other states...

A federal court on Wednesday refused a GOP effort to invalidate California’s new congressional map that adds up to five Democratic-leaning seats. In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel rejected arguments that California Democrats unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered the map by boosting Hispanic voting power. It marks a major defeat for the Trump administration and the Calif...

The Supreme Court seemed receptive to state bans on transgender girls competing on girls and women’s school sports teams during high-stakes oral arguments Tuesday. The case thrusts the justices into the center of the national debate over transgender athletes, which has bubbled up in the lower courts in response to a recent wave of bans passed by GOP-led state legislatures. Acros...

Former special counsel Jack Smith will publicly testify on Jan. 22, the first time the public will hear directly from the prosecutor about his investigations of President Trump.  The hearing, announced by the House Judiciary Committee late Monday, comes after the panel’s GOP leadership rebuffed previous requests by Smith for a public hearing. Smith sat for...

A federal judge late Sunday ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), after the organization’s funding was abruptly cut last month. Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction that will restore the grants and block the cuts from taking effec...