Lawyers from the Trump-targeted firm Jenner & Block have joined the Harvard University legal team facing down the administration over the enrollment of international students.

The Trump administration announced Monday that it was replacing longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden — fired last week for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs — with Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer,

Courts are serving as a rare check on President Trump, but judicial orders to unwind his actions can be easier said than done.

Maragani, who is openly gay, has lobbed frequent barbs at Equality Utah and criticized gender-affirming care for transgender people, both from his personal social media accounts and from the Utah chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, which he led until it was disbanded by the national organization.

The Trump administration has settled a lawsuit that sought to allow the sale of a device that gun-control advocates say lets semiautomatic weapons fire like machine guns.

Mr. Trump had pressed hard for the bill’s passage, visiting the Capitol on Tuesday to pitch Republicans on the legislation, and meeting with holdouts on Wednesday at the White House. Earlier on Wednesday, his administration put out a statement calling the failure to pass the bill “the ultimate betrayal.”

After two hearings that sided with the Trump administration, the US Institute of Peace was able to prove it was illegally taken over in federal court.