The Latest From Trump Land

The Supreme Court.  Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

The Supreme Court blocked a lower court’s order directing the administration to rehire thousands of probationary federal workers. The court’s early rulings on Trump’s plans have been narrow and technical, as though it wants to avoid the larger questions of government power, Adam Liptak writes. At the administration’s direction, the I.R.S. agreed to help ICE officials find immigrants to deport. Several top agency officials are preparing to resign in response. The government froze more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell and $790 million for Northwestern as it investigates the universities over accusations of racial discrimination and antisemitism. The Justice Department is disbanding a team that investigates cryptocurrency crimes. A federal judge ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’s reporting access, which it limited after the wire service refused to adopt the term “Gulf of America.”