Jacob is a reporter at Democracy Docket and covers anti-Trump accountability litigation. He is from South Dakota and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and political science from Augustana University. Before joining Democracy Docket, he covered breaking news at Axios.
A district court judge prolonged a temporary block on the Trump administration’s recent attempt to dismiss without cause the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a key federal whistleblower agency.
A federal judge in D.C. Tuesday extended a block on President Donald Trump’s blanket freeze on all governmental grants and loans.
A coalition of federal unions and advocacy groups amended an existing lawsuit Monday, challenging billionaire Elon Musk’s order for about two million federal employees to explain what they accomplished over the past week or face dismissal.
A federal judge Monday temporarily blocked the Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from sharing sensitive data with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the faux agency headed by billionaire Elon Musk that has drawn a flurry of legal actions against it.
The Supreme Court Friday paused an emergency request from Trump and allowed the head of a key federal whistleblower agency to remain in office until a Feb. 26 hearing after the Trump administration attempted to fire him without cause earlier this month.
Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of Trump’s second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.
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