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...
The Department of Homeland Security published a procurement notice on Aug. 10 stating that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend $10 million to $20 million on "conductive distraction and de-escalation...
Dashcam and cellphone video published on Aug. 12 show an ICE officer pointing a gun at Carolina Molina, a licensed mental health therapist and U.S. citizen, in a Bailey's Crossroads parking lot in Fairfax County...
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced on Aug. 7 that her office’s Division on Civil Rights has issued investigative subpoenas to The GEO Group over the operation of Delaney Hall, the 1,000-bed...
The Education Department on July 23, 2026 rescinded long-standing rules that permitted statistical disparities in school discipline to serve as evidence of racial discrimination under federal civil rights law. The...
The Trump administration dropped its effort to subpoena a list of Jewish employees at the University of Pennsylvania, according to a court filing reported by Politico on July 23, 2026. The Equal Employment Opportunity...
On the morning of July 13, 2026, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a man during a vehicle stop in Biddeford, Maine. The Department of Homeland Security said officers were surveilling an...