The League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) sued DHS on Oct. 15 in federal court in Washington, alleging the department ran a...
The Justice Department sued California election officials, including Secretary of State Shirley Weber, on Oct. 15, seeking a court order to block the state from counting mail ballots in the Nov. 3 midterm election from...
Two ethics groups filed complaints in late September 2026 over taxpayer-funded ads promoting the administration. CREW filed September 30 over CBP ads airing since September 23 about "defeating communism in America,"...
U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali ruled on September 28, 2026, that FEMA could not condition roughly $1 billion a year in terrorism-preparedness grants on states "exploring a transition to paper ballots or verifying...
The Supreme Court on September 25, 2026 sided 6-3 with the administration, pausing an order that had blocked DHS's overhauled SAVE database from checking state voter rolls for citizenship. SAVE, built to verify benefits...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a Sept. 22, 2026 memo directing U.S. Cyber Command and the Pentagon's combat support agencies to prioritize intelligence and cyber capabilities to "track down, disrupt and...
The Supreme Court on Sept. 14, 2026 denied the administration's application in USPS v. California to stay Judge Indira Talwani's Sept. 4 preliminary injunction against the Postal Service's August 2026 ballot-mail rule...
Denver, joined by the League of United Latin American Citizens, Common Cause and UnidosUS, filed suit on September 10, 2026, in federal court against DHS and Secretary Markwayne Mullin, seeking to bar ICE agents from...
On Sunday, September 6, 2026, Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a new emergency application asking the Supreme Court to stay Judge Indira Talwani's September 4 preliminary injunction against the Postal Service's...
On September 4, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined, 2-1, to lift a lower-court order barring the government from using the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic...