A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has extended and broadened an order preventing the Trump administration from excluding reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House access, a ruling that puts constitutional limits on executive control over press credentials and event access into sharp focus.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly concluded that the news organizations are likely to succeed on claims that the exclusion violated both the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment’s due process protections.

The Justice Department has announced an immediate shift in how it will enforce portions of the National Firearms Act, saying more individuals may acquire suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and certain other covered firearms without complying with the federal registration regime that has long applied to those weapons. The change follows a Texas federal court ruling invalidating key NFA provisions, creating a notable gap between the statute on the books and the government’s near-term enforcement posture.

For lawyers and compliance professionals, the significance is twofold.

A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has kept alive a closely watched challenge to the Trump administration’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” signaling she is not persuaded the case should disappear simply because the government now says the plan has been abandoned.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s reaction is significant less for the fate of the fund itself than for the constitutional questions still hanging over it.

The North Carolina Supreme Court has brought the long-running Leandro school-funding litigation to a close, issuing a 4-3 decision that rejects earlier rulings allowing trial courts to order the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to address alleged constitutional shortfalls in public education.