December 18, 2025
The D.C. Circuit pushed back Thursday morning on the idea that the Trump administration created a new rule by requiring all noncitizens to register with the federal government under threat of federal prosecution, suggesting it might just be enforcing federal immigration law.
August 13, 2025
The D.C. Circuit denied a request by immigrant rights groups to halt a policy requiring noncitizens to register with the federal government or face prosecution, while denying the Trump administration's bid to dismiss the groups' appeal.
May 23, 2025
The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit that its rule requiring noncitizens to register with the government or face prosecution doesn't need to undergo the full notice-and-comment rulemaking process, and that immigrant rights' groups suing to stop it lack any concrete harm that would justify their standing.
May 05, 2025
Immigrants rights groups called on the D.C. Circuit to pause the Trump administration's interim final rule requiring all noncitizens to register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution, after a lower court declined to issue a preliminary injunction.