Welcome to Gavel Drop, our roundup of legal news, headlines, and head-shaking moments in the courts

Just a week into his presidency and Donald Trump triggered a constitutional crisis with his Muslim travel ban and deportation order. Team Legal has continuing coverage of the legal implications, but this piece explains the due process violations happening right now.

Almost immediately after Trump issued his refugee order, four federal court judges blocked it. Notably, all are women.

Also at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern argues here that the anti-abortion “global gag rule” recently signed and expanded by President Trump could be unconstitutional.

Now at trial in Minnesota: the case of a mother suing her transgender daughter and health-care providers, arguing the latter improperly treated her daughter as an emancipated minor and treated her for gender dysphoria without parental consent.

The Michigan Supreme Court will consider whether juries or judges should sentence juveniles to life in prison without parole.

The Juvenile Law Center filed a class action lawsuit against Wisconsin state officials, claiming authorities illegally subject juveniles to solitary confinement and other inhumane conditions at state-run youth correctional facilities.

Horrific allegations are coming out of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where a graduate alleges in a lawsuit that 31 of its football players committed more than 50 acts of sexual assault, including gang rapes.

Let’s close with some good news. Late Friday a federal district judge ruled the State of Texas cannot enforce its “fetal remains” burial law, handing Lone Star anti-choice advocates yet another loss.