Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 3456 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

3456 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Sep 14, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-09-14St. Joseph County Council Delays Microsoft Data-Center TIF Expansion Vote to September 22 3 src
Microsoft
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2026-09-12Judge Lee Grants Preliminary Injunction Freezing Gilroy ICE Facility Construction on NEPA Grounds 3 src
Rob Bonta · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · General Services Administration
confirmed
2026-09-11Gilroy and Williamsport ICE-Facility Injunctions Rest on the Same Legal Theory: a NEPA Categorical Exclusion Invoked Then Found Arbitrary and Capricious 2 src
Rob Bonta · Anthony G. Brown · State of Maryland · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +2
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2026-09-11ICE Turn-key Detention Solicitation Covers Four AORs on 10-Year IDIQs; Deadline Extended to Sept 14 7 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-09-10DOJ Sends 29 States and DC Election-Record Preservation Letters Warning of Criminal Sanctions 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division
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2026-09-10Government Describes CUC Keyhole on the Record: a 2008 HSI St. Paul Funding Vehicle, 77 Investigations 4 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Isaac Sant
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2026-09-10LULAC, UnidosUS, Common Cause and Denver Sue DHS Over Armed ICE Officers at Polling Places 5 src
Common Cause · Markwayne Mullin · David Venturella · Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2026-09-10Sonoma Sanctuary Coalition Pickets a Sheriff's Foundation Fundraiser Over ICE Notifications; Watchdog Counted 325 Requests, 46 Answered, 21 Arrests 3 srcconfirmed
2026-09-09Clearfield County Tables DHS Six-Month Moshannon Extension to Sept 22; Facility Pays $688K in Taxes, County Gets $200K 6 src
GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-09-09Commerce Proposes Excluding Non-Green-Card Immigrants From 2030 Apportionment, Cutting Race Questions 5 src
U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Census Bureau · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-09St. Paul Asylum Seeker With Work Permit and No Criminal Record Sent to Guantánamo's Camp Six 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-09-09Trump Promises $5,000 'Dividend' to Every Adult Citizen, Conditioned on Republicans Holding Both Chambers 4 src
Donald Trump · JD Vance · Republican Party
confirmed
2026-09-08404 Media Names PITT: Border Patrol Teams Scoring Americans' Finances, Routing Stops Through State Police 3 src
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol
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2026-09-08Intercept FOIA Suit Releases 400+ Pages on Pentagon AI Contracts; Refusal-Minimizing Language Disputed 2 src
The Intercept · Department of Defense · OpenAI · Anthropic · +3
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2026-09-08Levy County FL Adopts Ordinance 2026-05, a One-Year Moratorium on Data Centers and Power-Intensive Facilities 4 srcconfirmed
2026-09-07Ballotpedia Logs 27 Article III Vacancies as the Court-Expansion Debate Resurfaces Before the Midterms 2 srcconfirmed
2026-09-06DHS Retains Contractor for Surprise AZ Environmental Review; GardaWorld Deal Worth $700M With Extensions 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Kris Mayes · GardaWorld Federal Services
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2026-09-04ICE Holds a Frederick MD Neighborhood for About 40 Hours, Then Drives Onto Sidewalks and Batons Residents Blocking a Home 5 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-09-04ICE Officer Castro Pleads Not Guilty to Six False-Statement Counts; Unsealed Indictment Says He Fired Through a Closing Door 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2026-09-04North Port FL Advances an 18-Month Data-Center Moratorium 4-1 After Seven Hours and About 400 Public Comments 2 srcconfirmed
2026-09-04Seven Vermont Clergy Arrested Blockading the NCATC, the ICE Targeting Center in Williston 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2026-09-04Talwani Preliminarily Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Citing a Final Rule Issued Fewer Than Seventy Days Before the Election 4 src
Indira Talwani · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
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2026-09-03DOJ Files Its Second SCOTUS Emergency Application on the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, 61 Days Before Midterms 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump
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2026-09-03ICE Officers Without Completed Background Checks Are Issued Palantir's ELITE App, Officials Tell Intercept 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-09-03Judge Boardman Blocks Trump's Second Birthright-Citizenship Order: 'No Presidential Executive Order Can Undo What the Supreme Court Has Done' 3 src
Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States
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2026-09-03Vance Takes the Podium After a 42-Day Briefing Gap; Press Secretary Post Left Vacant 4 src
JD Vance · Karoline Leavitt · Donald Trump
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2026-09-02House Defeats Keep Nine Amendment 212-206, Far Short of the Two-Thirds Needed 3 src
Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · U.S. House of Representatives
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2026-09-02ICE Posts $5M Pre-Solicitation to Build Recurring Nationwide Voter-File Acquisition Pipeline 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Protect Democracy
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2026-09-02Leaked Memo Discloses ICE Contract With ZeroFox to Scrub Agent Identities From the Web 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · David Venturella · Homeland Security Investigations
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2026-09-02Mega Master Calendars Reach Miami as In-Absentia Deportation Orders There Double, 1,383 to 2,886 4 src
Executive Office for Immigration Review · U.S. Department of Justice
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2026-09-01Bulloch County GA Rejects a Permanent Data-Center Ban 4-3 on the Chairman's Tiebreaker, Keeping the Moratorium and Seating a 21-Person Citizen Group 2 srcconfirmed
2026-09-01Dakota County MN Commissioners Asked to Pledge Noncompliance With Federal Mail-Ballot Restrictions; Two of Seven Respond, No Vote Taken 1 src
United States Postal Service
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2026-09-01DHS Launches HSI Voter-Fraud Surge in Nine States Through Mid-October, 41 Charges Against 250,000 Flags 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-01ICE Names New York's Sanctuary Law in Writing as the Reason for a 100-Bed Hard-Sided Buildout at Batavia 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2026-09-01Maryland Delegation Members Push Back on ICE Plans for Warehouse Detention in Washington County 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2026-09-01USPS Whistleblower Alleges Ballot-Vetting System Built in Weeks and Work Continued After Court Order 4 src
Richard Blumenthal · David Steiner · U.S. Postal Service · Indira Talwani
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2026-08-31Cities Church Defendants Move to Dismiss, Alleging Selective FACE Act Prosecution and 92 DHS Customs Summonses 2 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Department of Justice · Don Lemon · +2
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2026-08-31Dougherty County GA Extends Its Data-Center Moratorium 180 Days, Unanimously, With Officials Saying There Is No Ceiling on Extensions 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-30Barber County KS Approves Google's 1.7M-Square-Foot Project Helium 2-0-1, With Full Ad Valorem Taxes, $5.5M in Community Payments and a Ban on New Water Wells 2 src
Google
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2026-08-30ICE's Own Roster (As of Aug. 30, 2026) Shows Kentucky at 55 287(g) MOAs Across 53 Agencies — Growth Is Voluntary-Plus-Financial-Incentive, Not the Failed Legislative Mandate 7 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-08-29Aug 3 NDNY 287(g)-Adjacent Ruling Confirmed as United States v. Russo (Not 'v. State of New York'); Nassau's Two ICE Agreements Still on ICE's Own Roster Three Days After Blakeman's Termination Announcement 6 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Kathy Hochul · Letitia James · +4
confirmed
2026-08-29Guardian Documents DHS Using a Customs-Import Statute, 19 U.S.C. § 1509, to Take Journalists' Phone Records and Union Financial Records Without a Judge 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Georgia Fort · Don Lemon · T-Mobile · +3
confirmed
2026-08-29Operation Rotten Apple Ends With 2,197 New York Arrests; DOJ Attorney Says the Point Was to 'Send a Message' to Employers, None of Whom Were Charged 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Kathy Hochul
confirmed
2026-08-28Boelter Notifies Court He Will Argue the Hortman Killings Were a Justifiable Taking of Life in a Citizen's Arrest 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-28DHS Hires Election-Denial Activist Karen DiSalvo, Reported Drafter of the Letter Threatening States' Security Funding Over Election Policy 1 src
Department of Homeland Security
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2026-08-28ICE Solicits a $10–25M No-Bid Expansion of the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility at Batavia, NY 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-08-28ICE's Own Live Roster Confirms Nine of Twelve New York 287(g) Agencies Terminated; NDNY Docket for the Aug 3 Injunction Denial Identified as 26-cv-1360 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Rensselaer County · Kyle Bourgault · Nassau County · +3
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2026-08-28More Than 1.2 Million Texas Voter Registrations Flagged to the Suspense List Ahead of the November Midterms 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-28SCOTUS Lifts the Block on Trump's Mail-Voting Order as Premature; the USPS Rule Takes Effect, North Carolina Complies First, and Talwani Blocks It Again 1 src
Indira Talwani · Ketanji Brown Jackson · U.S. Postal Service
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2026-08-28Thousands Rally at the Lincoln Memorial for 'Defend the Vote' on the March on Washington's 63rd Anniversary 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-27Elkhart Indiana Council Votes 9-0 to Stop Accepting Data-Center and Battery-Storage Applications Through 2027 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-27ICE Agent Christian Castro Walks Free in Texas After Abbott Sits on Minnesota's Extradition Warrant for 90 Days 4 src
Greg Abbott · Tim Walz · Keith Ellison · Mary Moriarty · +1
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2026-08-27ICE Awards GardaWorld $17.3M to Convert a San Antonio Building Into a Detention Facility — Bought Through the Navy Program DHS Said in June It Had Stopped Using 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services · Markwayne Mullin · Elizabeth Warren · +1
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2026-08-27ICE Awards GardaWorld $17.3M to Convert an East Side San Antonio Warehouse into a Detention Facility 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-08-27ICE Solicits $1M-$2M for Boston Dynamics SPOT Robots, Citing 'Situational Awareness' in High-Risk Environments 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-08-27Minnesota 15 Defense Argues DOJ Has Forfeited the Presumption of Regularity at Discovery Hearing on Surveillance Materials 1 src
Kevin Riach · Isaac Sant · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2026-08-27New Evidence Contradicts DHS 'Fact Check' That an ICE-Detained Woman Received 'FULL' Prenatal Care Before a Stillbirth 1 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · The Intercept
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2026-08-27New York's August 25 287(g) Deadline Passes: State Sues Rensselaer Directly, Corrected 12-Agency Roster Shows Federal Court Already Denied a DOJ Injunction 6 src
New York Office of Immigrant Trust · Letitia James · Kathy Hochul · Kyle Bourgault · +5
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2026-08-27OCC and FDIC Finalize a Rule Requiring Supervisory Objections to Tie to Material Financial Risk, Narrowing 'Unsafe or Unsound Practice' 1 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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2026-08-27ProPublica Documents Pinellas County Jail Rebooking Immigrants to Hold Them Past a 72-Hour IGSA Limit — One Woman Held 26 Days 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ProPublica
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2026-08-27Rokita-Marté Consent Decree Settles the Policy Language but Expressly Leaves the ICE-Detainer Question for an October 27 Hearing 4 srcconfirmed
2026-08-27Sosnava Rodriguez v. Ortega: The Actual Case Behind the 5th Circuit's 90-Day Bond-Hearing Reversal — Docket Posture, Panel, and En Banc Argument Ahead of September 2026 Sitting 8 src
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · American Immigration Council
reported
2026-08-26Fifteen New York Sheriffs, Represented by FAIR, Sue to Overturn the 287(g) Ban One Day After It Took Effect 4 src
Kathy Hochul · Letitia James · New York Office of Immigrant Trust
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2026-08-26Five-State Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Picture Fractures Ahead of Midterms: Two of Five Enjoined, EAC Still Headless 8 src
Brennan Center for Justice · Election Assistance Commission · League of Women Voters
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2026-08-26Hall County GA Imposes a Single Unanimous Moratorium Covering Both Data Centers and Detention Centers 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-26HSI Solicits Private Contractor to Deliver Voter Registration and Voter History Files 3 src
Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-08-26NY AG James Subpoenas Nassau, Rensselaer, Broome and Steuben Counties Over Unterminated 287(g) ICE Agreements 3 src
Letitia James · Kathy Hochul · Bruce Blakeman · Nassau County · +4
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2026-08-26Pinal County AZ Rejects the 3,300-Acre La Osa Data Center 4-1 Even After an 80% Scale-Back and Self-Imposed Water Limits 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-26Santa Clara/California v. ICE (Gilroy): Docket Shows Full NEPA/ICA/Zoning Complaint, Federal Opposition Claiming '10 Detainees,' and an Unresolved Hearing-Date Discrepancy Between Press (Sept. 8) and the Court's Own Docket Text (Oct. 7) 4 src
Santa Clara County · State of California · California Attorney General Rob Bonta · ICE · +2
reported
2026-08-26State and Treasury Designate Italian Hosting Collective Autistici/Inventati a Global Terrorist 4 src
U.S. Department of State · U.S. Department of the Treasury · Scott Bessent
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2026-08-26Talwani Vacates Her Own Mail-Ballot Injunction After SCOTUS Stay; USPS Publishes the Final Rule the Same Day 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · U.S. Postal Service · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-08-25Florida PSC Tells Duke Its Data-Center Tariff Is on "Shaky Ground" in First Test of SB 484 Cost-Shift Law 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-25Henry County VA Creates Data Center Zoning District Requiring Special Use Permit, 50 dBA Cap and Annual Noise Testing 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-25Jackson Township, NJ Adopts Ordinance 2026-25, Writing a Data-Center Prohibition That Expressly Excludes Warehouses From the Definition 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-25Pierce County WA Extends Its Detention Moratorium Six Months, With the Executive Saying State Law Bars a Permanent Ban 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2026-08-25Seventh Circuit Holds Private Home Possession of AI-Generated CSAM Protected Under Stanley and Ashcroft, While Production and Distribution Remain Prosecutable 4 srcconfirmed
2026-08-24Army Sergeant's Wife Deported After AP Investigation Documents 50+ Detained Spouses and Parents of Active-Duty Troops 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Associated Press
confirmed
2026-08-24Carlton County MN Board Unanimously Enacts One-Year Data Center Moratorium as Google Presses Neighboring Hermantown 3 src
Google
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2026-08-24CENTCOM Official Describes Journalist 'Disregard' List to Intercept Reporter; Command Denies It Exists 2 src
U.S. Central Command · The Intercept · Pete Hegseth
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2026-08-24Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Suit Against Washtenaw County's Sanctuary Policies 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice
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2026-08-24SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Stay 6-3 Lifts Block on Trump Mail-Ballot EO Ten Weeks Before Midterms 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Indira Talwani · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2026-08-24State Department Prepares to Revoke Up to 200,000 B1/B2 Visas of Asylum Filers 2 src
State Department · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2026-08-23Lianyong Wei, 51, Dies About 24 Hours Into ICE Custody in Saipan; ICE Discloses It Nine Days Later 5 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-08-22Analysis Finds 97 Percent of Trump DOJ Emergency SCOTUS Filings Claim Judges Are Interfering With Presidential Power 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Justice · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2
confirmed
2026-08-22Judge Howell Orders ICE to Process 1,000 Pages/Month of Polling-Place FOIA Records 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Democratic National Committee · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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2026-08-21Chief Justice Roberts Stays Injunction Blocking White House East Wing Ballroom, Pending Further Order 6 src
John Roberts · National Park Service · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer
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2026-08-21Ninth Circuit Unanimously Denies DHS Stay of Adelanto Conditions Injunction in L.T. v. ICE 3 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group · Public Counsel · +1
confirmed
2026-08-20Both Dakotas Put 60% Constitutional-Amendment Thresholds on November 2026 Ballots, Targeting Citizen Initiatives 1 srcconfirmed
2026-08-20CFTC Orders Standalone Digital-Commodity Framework as the CLARITY Act Dies Without a Floor Vote 4 src
Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins · John Thune
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2026-08-20Church Plaintiffs File Non-Compliance Motion Against DHS, Attaching a Whipple Shield ROI Documenting an Undercover Agent Inside University Baptist Church 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Katherine Wespetal · Hakan Catalan
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2026-08-20Federal Judge Domenico Blocks Colorado's Unannounced-Inspection Mandate Over GEO Group's Aurora ICE Facility 4 src
GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-08-20Privacy Coalition Files Maryland AG Complaint Naming Penlink, Thomson Reuters for Selling Geolocation to ICE 2 src
Penlink · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-08-20ProPublica Reports DOJ Pressed U.S. Attorneys for Voter-Fraud Cases as Lutnick Claims 24,000 Noncitizens Voted 3 src
Department of Justice · Howard Lutnick · U.S. Census Bureau · ProPublica
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2026-08-20Trump Names Nine District Nominees as the Rudofsky Pick Puts the First Trump-Majority Appeals Court in Reach 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Senate
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2026-08-20Washington County, FL Unanimously Approves One-Year Data Center Moratorium in Unincorporated Areas 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-19Crypto and AI Super PACs Amass $321M in 2026 Cycle; Fairshake Network Spends Against Progressive Democrats 2 src
Coinbase · Andreessen Horowitz
confirmed
2026-08-19ICE Abandons Salt Lake City Warehouse Detention Conversion, Sends 145M Dollar Building to GSA as Excess Property 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · General Services Administration · Kristi Noem · +3
confirmed
2026-08-19ICE Warehouse Detention Program Stalls Nationwide: 11 Purchased Sites, $1.074B Spent, No Restart Timeline Under Mullin 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Kristi Noem · +1
confirmed
2026-08-19Indianapolis/Marion County Enacts Data-Center Moratorium Through 2027 on 23-1 Council and 6-0 Commission Votes 3 src
Google · DC Blox
confirmed
2026-08-19Judge Hanen Authorizes Surgical PEG-Tube Force-Feeding of Cuban Hunger Striker at GEO's Montgomery Facility 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group
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