U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The RNC is challenging in court states that allow mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day, saying that it threatens election integrity.

The Supreme Court will decide if the Biden-Garland Justice Department’s “Ghost Gun” Rule violates the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling allowing Texas SB4 Immigration Law to go into effect on Tuesday was short-lived. Within hours of the court’s decision to move the matter back into the hands of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a three-member panel on the New Orleans-based court blocked the law from taking effect in a 2-1 vote. The appellate court then scheduled oral arguments on the matter for Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the legal battle over a new Texas immigration law that would allow state law enforcement officers to arrest migrants who illegally enter the state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a temporary stay of a previous order blocking the implementation of a newly enacted Texas law. The latest SCOTUS ruling will temporarily halt the law’s implementation until March 13.

“This is not over,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted on Monday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Border Patrol agents can cut the razor-wire border barriers along the Rio Grande. The court granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administration allowing federal agents to access the Texas border with Mexico being fenced off by the Texas Military Department.

The State of Texas secured a rehearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that will allow the floating buoy barrier installed in the Rio Grande to remain in place until the full court hears the case. The en banc court hearing will take place in May 2024 and reverses a prior ruling ordering the state to remove the barrier system.

The DOE was wrong when it reversed Trump-era rules making dishwashers and laundry machines more efficient, a federal appeals court ruled.

The Supreme Court decided to hear a case about the FDA rolling back safety restrictions around the abortion pill.

The floating border buoy installed by the State of Texas in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass must be removed, according to a ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. The 2-1 ruling by the court affirmed the Biden administration’s Department of Justice argument that the buoys pose a threat to public safety and block navigation in the Rio Grande.

A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit decided against the ATF’s frame rule, finding that the ATF overstepped its bounds in issuing it.

Public leaders like federal judges need to embrace that pressure is a privilege and get comfortable with it, Judge Jim Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit told an audience at the Heritage Foundation when delivering its prestigious Joseph Story Lecture on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision halting two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions that loosened restrictions around mifepristone, the first pill used in a two-drug chemical abortion regimen.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a decision Tuesday reversing a district court order rejecting a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) pistol brace rule and remanding the case to the district court for reconsideration.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an injunction Tuesday pending review against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) pistol brace rule.

The Biden Administration’s mail-order abortion regime is being challenged in part of a federal lawsuit, but no matter the outcome, the USPS plans to “follow the law,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says.

WASHINGTON, DC – Biden administration regulations allowing the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail are back in force for five days as a Supreme Court administrative stay has paused recent court orders on the matter until the justices can consider additional legal arguments on both sides.

A federal appeals court issued a ruling late Wednesday evening partially staying an order from a lower court blocking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen.

Attorneys general for 19 states filed an amicus brief on Wednesday asking a federal appeals court to uphold a ruling out of Texas blocking the FDA’s approval of mifepristone.

President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate is illegal under federal law, the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court held Thursday in a major defeat for the Biden administration.

Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and law school dean Jenny Martinez apologized to Judge Kyle Duncan after students and faculty accosted him during a Federalist Society event.

Conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down by Stanford Law School students and faculty during a Federalist Society event on campus.

On Thursday a three judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision striking the requirement that subjects of domestic violence restraining orders give up their guns.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF’s) stabilizer brace rule was finalized January 13, 2023, and it portends the registration of millions of guns. 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is allegedly pushing for an impending spending bill to include an updated version of a horse racing law that was recently ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court, Reuters reported Monday.

President Joe Biden suffered another court setback on his student debt transfer program which multiple federal courts have blocked as illegal, as the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court denied the Justice Department’s motion seeking to stay a lower court judgment

WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden administration argued in a Supreme Court immigration case Tuesday that states have no standing to sue the federal government over illegal immigration policies, and that courts lack the power to strike them down anyway.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dealt a blow to President Joe Biden’s administration and ruled on Wednesday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was unlawful.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that federal school mask and vaccine mandates cannot be enforced because “liberty interests of individuals … outweigh any interest generated by the mandatory administration of vaccines.”

Trump-appointee Judge James Ho accused United Airlines of “coerc[ing] its employees into violating their religious beliefs.”

A riff between two judges in the United States’ most conservative federal appeals court reflects the ongoing debate of accountability when a government potentially breaches the First Amendment.

President Joe Biden must stop releasing the thousands of convicted criminal migrants who are appealing their court-ordered deportations, says a federal court.

President Joe Biden called for American adults ages 18–20 to be barred from buying modern sporting rifles, despite a previous federal ruling.

A federal court dismissed all challenges to the private enforcement mechanism of Texas’s six-week abortion ban on Tuesday. 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overrule a lower court order that prohibits mandated transgender care for health insurance providers.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered further review of  United Airlines’ coronavirus vaccine mandate.

United Airlines is allegedly allowing potentially unvaccinated London-based flight attendants to work alongside vaccinated American staff as it grapples with staffing shortages, cofounder of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom Captain Sherry Walker exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday.