An Army study at Fort Leavenworth found that "shock gloves" ICE later purchased caused intense pain and fear in volunteers role-playing combative prisoners, according to documents from American Oversight reported by the...
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward through a public-records request, reported by The New York Times on October 7, 2026, show DHS investigated more than 150 nonprofits hunting for noncitizens on voter rolls...
ICE and other immigration agents detained at least 506 U.S. citizens against their will from January 2025 through September 2026, ProPublica found in an investigation published Oct. 6, calling the total an undercount...
The Trump administration on September 9, 2026 proposed sweeping changes to the 2030 census: excluding non-citizens without a green card from population counts used for congressional apportionment, dropping race and...
The Treasury Department and the IRS issued proposed regulations on September 3 that would deny federal tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) to any private school that adopts, maintains or enforces a policy or...
ProPublica reported on Sept. 2, 2026 that Justice Department leaders quashed plans by federal prosecutors in Minnesota to charge ICE agent Christian Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law. Castro allegedly...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition on Aug. 28, 2026 asking the Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit ruling that barred the Pentagon from enforcing its ban on service by people with gender dysphoria. Sauer...
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced on Aug. 27, 2026 that the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences intentionally discriminated by race in admitting its 2024 and 2025...
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston blocked HUD on Aug. 26 from restructuring the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, ruling the agency failed to give a reasoned explanation for sweeping changes to a grant program...
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Massachusetts on Aug. 13 granted Harvard University's motion to dismiss the Justice Department's civil rights lawsuit accusing the school of failing to protect Jewish and Israeli...