The Latest Breaking News from James Boasberg

Musk has been plowing campaign donations into the race to succeed retiring liberal justice, backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel and repeatedly stressing the importance of the outcome

Boasberg will later decide whether the disappearing messages in the Signal chat violated federal records retention laws. Here’s your roundup of key US politics stories from 27 March 2025

Restraining order was issued to ensure that records of Yemen attack group conversation are retained

Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order against deleting any messages in the controversial chat.

A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis

Americans view the Signal leak in at least as bad a light as Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State

As the 19th-century French political philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, memorably observed, Americans have a tendency to fight their political battles in court. Barely two months into his presidency, Donald Trump is demonstrating increasing frustration as trade unions, civil rights organisations and states attorneys general challenge the implementation of his policies…

Court rejects administration appeal in fired federal workers case amid series of legal setbacks for White House

High-ranking officials can spill military secrets with apparent near-total immunity

Republicans are considering what actions to take when judges declare Donald Trump’s actions illegal

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has blocked the president’s deportation of Venezuelan immigrants under the Aliens Exile Act, has been handed a new lawsuit to hear challenging the Trump administration over the leaked Signal chat on bombings in Yemen.