Here’s a look at how Trump policies and our rights are faring in a state court and the lower federal courts -- from reproductive and voting rights to immigration and gender-related protections and removal of a slavery exhibit: 

• The Jackson County Missouri circuit court judge struck down dozens of state laws restricting reproductive rights. The judge found the laws to be in conflict with a successfully passed 2024 ballot measure enacting a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” in the state. The anti-abortion state Attorney General has promised to appeal the decision.

• Obama-nominated Judge Indira Talwani of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts blocked a Trump Executive Order restricting mail-in voting in federal elections. Judge Talwani said that the Constitution does not grant specific power over elections to the president. States have the power to regulate elections. The case was brought by more than 20 states. 

• Judge Casey Pitts of the District Court for the Northern District of California (a Biden nominee) issued an order blocking immigration agents from making arrests inside immigration courtrooms nationwide. The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit against an administration change in guidelines for arrests at courthouses. The judge also struck down a waiver that allowed ICE to hold detainees in short-term holding rooms for 72 hours or beyond which is a departure from the previous 12-hour limit.

• A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court in Chicago voted 2-1 that the Florida Attorney General could not enforce a Florida law against the Chicago-based American Academy of Pediatrics for allegedly misleading the public on the safety of gender-transition treatments for youth. Judge David Hamilton (an Obama nominee) and Judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi (avBiden nominee) voted with the majority while Judge Michael Scudder, a Trump nominee, opposed. 

• A unanimous decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals allows the Trump administration to remove and replace the exhibit “From Enslavement to Emancipation” at the President’s House in Philadelphia, which the administration claims disparages Americans. In February, a district court judge ordered the exhibit restored after it was taken down. The appeals court agreed that the city of Philadelphia had standing to sue but rejected the city’s arguments.