A federal judge says a Columbia University student activist's legal challenge of his detention by the U.S. government will be heard in New Jersey rather than New York or Louisiana.

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana.

A federal judge has banned a Florida gun retailer from selling certain gun parts in New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks.

Michael Avenatti has wavered on whether he plans to take the witness stand in his own defense at a fraud trial in which he is accused of stealing $300,000 in book proceeds from porn actor Stormy Daniels.

ORLANDO, Fla. A coalition of states, cities and civil rights groups on Friday asked a federal judge to declare as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's order seeking to exclude people in the country illegally from being part of the process for redrawing congressional districts. The coalition, led by New York state, in court papers asked U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in New York to stop Trump's order from being implemented and declare that it violated the U.S. Constitution and laws governing the taking of the once-a-decade census. In the alternative, the coalition asked the judge to stop any action from being taken on the order until he can make a final ruling. Opponents say Trump's order is an effort to suppress the growing political power of Latinos in the U.S. and to discriminate against immigrant communities of color. The move to a three-judge panel would allow the case to take a more direct path to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court ponders whether a citizenship question should be included on the 2020 census form. (CNN) - A New York federal judge has issued an order definitively blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in any form, despite the administration's insistence it has abandoned plans to add a question on the census. President Donald Trump announced last week that he will seek citizenship information from agencies that already collect the data following the Supreme Court's decision in June that kept a lower court's order to block a citizenship question from the census in place. In the Supreme Court case, the Trump administration claimed the citizenship question on the census questionnaire is necessary to better comply with federal voting rights law. Administration lawyers notified the courts last week that the effort to add a census question would be dropped.

The Supreme Court ponders whether a citizenship question should be included on the 2020 census form. (CNN) - A federal judge in New York said on Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot swap out its legal team in the census citizenship question case. Trump is still considering an executive order in an effort to force a citizenship question onto the 2020 census, according to officials familiar with the situation. "I have long heard that the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is a President's most important decision. There are two other live challenges over the 2020 census and its inclusion of a citizenship question before other federal judges.