(Background) New York Attorney General Letitia James stands silently during a press conference at the office of the Attorney General on December 15, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) / (L) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during hearing with the House Judiciary Subcommittee. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

19 Democrat-led states sue RFK Jr.’s HHS over proposed restrictions to transgender medical treatments for minors

A coalition of 19 Democrat-led U.S. states, along with Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over the agency’s recent declaration announcing an effort to ban “transgender medical care” for minors.

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James E. “Jeb” Boasberg. (Photo via: dcd.uscourts.gov) / (R) TOPSHOT - Prisoners with MS-13 gang tattoos look out of their cell as unseen US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) as prisoners stand, looking out from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge Boasberg: Trump admin must facilitate return of over 100 deported Venezuelans or give them due process hearings

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration must either facilitate the return of more than 100 Venezuelan men — deported earlier this year to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison — or provide them with due process hearings to challenge their removal and purported gang ties.

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