Centralization of presidential power, politicization of agencies, suppression of oversight and control of independent institutions.
Federal agents executed a pre-dawn search warrant at the Washington home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on October 12, 2026, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, the Justice Department confirmed to reporters...
The White House announced Oct. 9, 2026, that Trump formed a three-member committee, including his assistant for economic policy, the EEOC chair and the Office of Government Ethics director, to review whether he has cause...
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is investigating former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, reportedly over claims she lied to Congress, according to four people familiar with the matter. Routing the case...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay on October 4, 2026, in Rogoff v. Trump, pausing a trial court's October 1 order restoring Roger Rogoff, a former career prosecutor and state judge, as the...
President Trump announced on October 4, 2026, that Jay Clayton -- the sitting Director of National Intelligence -- will simultaneously lead a new White House effort Trump calls the "Super Intelligence Force," adding...
On October 1, 2026, U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian of the Western District of Washington blocked President Trump's firing of Roger Rogoff, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, and ordered him...
The State Department notified Congress in September 2026 that it would redirect $52 million in security assistance originally designated for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq -- funds appropriated to help...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Sept. 30, 2026 issued a one-sentence order, without explanation, temporarily barring the administration from engraving President Trump's name on the U.S. Institute of...
California, led by Attorney General Rob Bonta, and six other states -- Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon -- sued the Trump administration on September 30, 2026, over a $810 million "pocket...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Harvard University on September 29, 2026, seeking a court order compelling the university to turn over records from a commissioner-initiated investigation into whether...