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The sequence of events is familiar A lower court judge blocks a part of President Donald Trump s agenda an appellate panel refuses to put the order on hold while the matter continues and the Justice Department turns to the Supreme Court Trump administration lawyers have filed exigency appeals with the nation s highest court a little less than once a week on average since Trump began his second term The court is not being inquired to render a final decision but rather to set the rules of the road while the incident makes it way through the courts The justices have issued orders in cases so far and the Trump administration has won more than it has lost Among the administration s victories was an order allowing it to enforce the Republican president s ban of on transgender military facility members Among its losses was a prohibition on using an th century wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans alleged to be gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador The majority of modern exigency filing arrived May A judge rebuked the administration over deportations to South Sudan The Trump administration s latest appeal asks the high court to halt an order by U S District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston The White House violated his earlier order Murphy detected with a deportation flight bound for the African nation carrying people from other countries who had been convicted of crimes in the U S Those immigrants must get a real chance to raise any fears that being sent there could put them in danger Murphy wrote Trump s top Supreme Court lawyer Solicitor General D John Sauer petitioned for an immediate high court order that would allow the third-country deportations to resume Murphy has stalled efforts to carry out deportations of newcomers who can t be returned to their home countries Sauer wrote Finding countries willing to take them is a delicate diplomatic endeavor and the court requirements are a major setback he noted Lawyers for the deported men have until Wednesday to respond A watchdog group is trying to bring transparency to DOGE The Department of Regime Efficiency overseen by billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk until his departure on Friday is resisting a lawsuit calling for it to publicly disclose information about its operations Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argues in a lawsuit that DOGE which has been central to Trump s push to remake the ruling body is a federal agency and must be subject to the Freedom of Information Act CREW proposes that DOGE wields shockingly broad power with no transparency about its actions The administration says DOGE is just a presidential advisory body that is exempt from FOIA disclosures U S District Judge Christopher Cooper had detected that its role is likely more than just advisory especially in helping to shutter the U S Agency for International Advancement and cut billions of dollars in ruling body contracts The administration appealed Cooper s orders requiring documents be turned over and acting Administrator Amy Gleason to answer questions under oath Last week Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to temporarily pause the orders pending additional word from the Supreme Court A judge blocked DOGE s access to Social Defense systems over privacy concerns Social Prevention has personal content on nearly everyone in the country including school records bank details salary information and clinical and mental fitness records for disability recipients according to court documents The Trump administration says DOGE necessities access to Social Defense s systems as part of its mission to target waste in the federal authorities But U S District Judge Ellen Hollander in Maryland restricted the band s access to Social Guard under federal privacy laws saying DOGE s efforts at the agency amounted to a fishing expedition based on little more than suspicion of fraud The judge is disrupting DOGE s work and interfering with decisions that belong to the executive branch not courts Sauer wrote in asking the high court to block Hollander s order in the suit filed by labor unions and retirees The justices could act anytime Trump wants to change citizenship rules in place for more than years Several judges rapidly blocked an executive order Trump signed his first day in office that would deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are in the country illegally or temporarily The administration appealed three court orders that prohibit the changes from taking effect anywhere in the country Earlier in May the justices took the rare step of hearing arguments in an exigency appeal It s unclear how the situation will come out but the court seemed intent on keeping the changes on hold while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders One possibility advanced by specific justices was to find a different legal mechanism perhaps a class action to accomplish essentially the same thing as the nationwide injunctions blocking Trump s citizenship order Nationwide injunctions have emerged as an pivotal check on Trump s efforts to remake the leadership and a source of mounting frustration to the Republican president and his allies Judges have issued nationwide injunctions since Trump began his second term in January Sauer narrated the court during the arguments The court could act anytime but almost certainly no later than early summer Immigration May Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for people from countries Supreme Court May Supreme Court sidesteps major ruling on religious general charter schools Transgender care for minors and LGBTQ content in elementary schools On the court s merits docket the justices are also considering a Tennessee law that blocks minors from accessing gender-affirming care in the state in a crucial episode about transgender rights During oral argument in December the high court s conservative majority appeared ready to uphold Tennessee s law Five of the court s six conservatives seemed skeptical of the argument that the ban on gender-affirming care for minors is discriminatory The decision could have direct effects in the states that have passed versions of the bans and might have ripple effects on other measures that restrict sports participation and bathroom use by transgender people Supporters of the wellbeing care laws argue the gender-affirming treatments are risky and the laws protect kids from making decisions before they re ready Challengers say a large number of biological interventions come with specific degree of liability and families should be able to weigh those against the benefits The arguments in favor of Tennessee s ban could also be used to back federal restrictions declared Chase Strangio the ACLU attorney who represented three families challenging the law Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti disclosed that his state s arguments would still let each state set its own approach Another event involves indicates of religious rights of parents in a Maryland county who want to pull their children from elementary school classes that using storybooks with LGBTQ characters The court seemed likely to find that the Montgomery County school system in suburban Washington could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections to the material The affair is one of three religious rights cases at the court this term The justices have repeatedly endorsed contends of religious discrimination in modern years The school district introduced the storybooks in with such titles as Prince and Knight and Uncle Bobby s Wedding as part of an effort to better reflect the district s diversity Parents initially were allowed to opt their children out of the lessons for religious and other reasons but the school board reversed class a year later prompting protests and eventually a lawsuit In all five books are at issue in the high court occurrence touching on the same themes uncovered in classic stories that include Snow White Cinderella and Peter Pan the school system s lawyers wrote In Prince and Knight two men fall in love after they rescue the kingdom and each other Love Violet deals with a girl s anxiety about giving a valentine to another girl Born Ready is the story of a transgender boy s decision to share his gender identity with his family and the world Intersection Allies describes nine characters of varying backgrounds including one who is gender-fluid Billy Moges a board member of the Kids First parents group that sued over the books revealed the content is sexual confusing and inappropriate for young schoolchildren The writers group Pen America stated in a court filing what the parents want is a constitutionally suspect book ban by another name Pen America stated more than books were banned in the last school year