COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The law also banned trans women and girls from participating in female sports. The state attorney general vowed an immediate appeal.

The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the 10th Appellate District Court of Appeals reverses a lower court judge's decision last year allowing the law to take effect following a non-jury trial in a lawsuit against the state by families of two transgender girls.

An Ohio court has overturned part of the state's law banning certain healthcare for transgender youth, allowing patients to again receive prescriptions like puberty blockers and hormone therapy drugs.

Attorney General Pam Bondi told an appeals court a judge had no power to block Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act.

A federal appeals court in a 2-1 decision Monday declined to immediately block a judge’s order that the Trump administration reinstate fired probationary employees at six federal agencies. The new

The federal judge who ruled against Donald Trump’s deportation plans and is now facing White House calls for his impeachment is no stranger to politically fraught cases — including ones involving the