| 2026-08-27 | Sosnava 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 · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-08-26 | Emporia, KS Commission Sends Data-Center Ban Initiative to November Ballot After Court Order
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-08-26 | Fifteen 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Five-State Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Picture Fractures Ahead of Midterms: New Hampshire Enjoined, Ohio's Separate BMV Requirement Also Blocked, EAC Still Headless
10 src Brennan Center for Justice · Election Assistance Commission · League of Women Voters · Deidre Henderson |
| reported |
| 2026-08-26 | FVAP's Never-Resided State-List Page Was Last Edited Shortly Before OMB's Approval; the Form and the Page Were Then Replaced and Withdrawn | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Hall County GA Imposes a Single Unanimous Moratorium Covering Both Data Centers and Detention Centers
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | HSI 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | ICE Awards Compliant Technologies $16.7M Contract for Electric Shock Gloves, Below the $20M Solicited
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Nassau County Terminates Its 287(g) Agreements With ICE, Letters Say Effective Aug. 25, Reserving the Right to Reenter If New York's Ban Is Struck Down
2 src Nassau County · Bruce Blakeman · Rensselaer County · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-08-26 | NY 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Pinal 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 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Santa 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 |
| 2026-08-26 | State 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 · Office of Foreign Assets Control | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Talwani 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 |
| 2026-08-26 | Wyoming's Governor and Laramie County Clerk Say DOJ's Primary-Day Monitors Were Aggressive and Exceeded Their Authority
1 src Mark Gordon · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | BORTAC-Escorted Contractors Begin Border Wall Work on Tohono O'odham Nation Land; ProPublica Documents Surveillance of Prayer Camp
6 src Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | Eleventh Circuit Vacates the Georgia Section 2 Map Rulings and Remands Under Callais; Georgia House Republican Leaders Had Said They Would Not Redraw for 2028
3 src Brian Kemp | | reported |
| 2026-08-25 | Florida PSC Tells Duke Its Data-Center Tariff Is on "Shaky Ground" in First Test of SB 484 Cost-Shift Law
2 src Florida Public Service Commission · Duke Energy Florida | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | Henry County VA Creates Data Center Zoning District Requiring Special Use Permit, 50 dBA Cap and Annual Noise Testing
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | ICE Posts $5M Request for Information 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | Jackson Township, NJ Adopts Ordinance 2026-25, Writing a Data-Center Prohibition That Expressly Excludes Warehouses From the Definition
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | Pierce 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) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-25 | Seventh Circuit Holds Private Home Possession of AI-Generated CSAM Protected Under Stanley and Ashcroft, While Production and Distribution Remain Prosecutable
4 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | Army 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 |
| 2026-08-24 | Carlton County MN Board Unanimously Enacts One-Year Data Center Moratorium as Google Presses Neighboring Hermantown
3 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | CENTCOM Official Describes Journalist 'Disregard' List to Intercept Reporter; Command Denies It Exists
2 src U.S. Central Command · The Intercept · Pete Hegseth | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Suit Against Washtenaw County's Sanctuary Policies
5 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | Ninth Circuit Lifts Judge Thurston's Border Patrol Stop-and-Arrest Injunction and Remands for a Standing Determination, Leaving the Appeal Pending (United Farm Workers v. Noem)
6 src United Farm Workers · ACLU · U.S. Border Patrol | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | SCOTUS 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | State Department Prepares to Revoke Up to 200,000 B1/B2 Visas of Asylum Filers
2 src State Department · Christopher Landau · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-23 | Lianyong 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 |
| 2026-08-22 | Analysis 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 |
| 2026-08-22 | Judge Howell Calls ICE's June 2027 FOIA Timeline 'an Unacceptable Delay' in DNC Polling-Place Case
3 src Beryl Howell · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Democratic National Committee · Department of Justice · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-21 | Chief 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 |
| reported |
| 2026-08-21 | Ninth 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 |
| 2026-08-20 | Both Dakotas Put 60% Constitutional-Amendment Thresholds on November 2026 Ballots, Targeting Citizen Initiatives
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | CFTC Orders Standalone Digital-Commodity Framework as the CLARITY Act Dies Without a Floor Vote
4 src Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Michael Selig · Paul Atkins · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Church 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 · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Federal 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Mike Rogers Backs Michigan Data-Center Moratorium Three Days After The Lever Discloses His AI/Data-Center Holdings
6 src Mike Rogers · Abdul El-Sayed · Blackstone |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Piker Stream Remark on American Jews Draws Democratic Rebukes; He Calls Their Reading a Misreading
2 src Hasan Piker · Hakeem Jeffries | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Privacy Coalition Files Maryland AG Complaint Naming Penlink, Thomson Reuters for Selling Geolocation to ICE
2 src Penlink · Thomson Reuters · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | ProPublica 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Trump Names Nine District Nominees as the Rudofsky Pick Puts the First Trump-Majority Appeals Court in Reach
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Washington County, FL Unanimously Approves One-Year Data Center Moratorium in Unincorporated Areas
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-19 | Crypto and AI Super PACs Amass $321M in 2026 Cycle; Fairshake Network Spends Against Progressive Democrats
2 src Coinbase · Andreessen Horowitz · Leading the Future | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-19 | ICE 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 |
| 2026-08-19 | ICE 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 |
| 2026-08-19 | Indianapolis/Marion County Enacts Data-Center Moratorium Through 2027 on 23-1 Council and 6-0 Commission Votes
3 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-19 | Judge 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-19 | Oracle Drops Wisconsin PSC Suit, Leaving $100M-Plus Annual Collateral Requirement for Port Washington Campus
4 src Oracle · Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies · OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | ABC and Disney Sue FCC for First Amendment Retaliation Over Early License Renewals; Complaint Says No Candidate Has Appeared on The View Since February
3 src American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · The Walt Disney Company · Federal Communications Commission · Brendan Carr · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Brazos County Approves 4-0 Transfer of $700M RELLIS Data Center Tax Abatement to ThisWay Global After Abbott Audit Order
4 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Brazos County Transfers RELLIS Data Center Abatement to ThisWay Global, Returning Half the Value to Tax Rolls
2 src Greg Abbott | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | DHS Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia Takes Effect, Ending Protection for 5,000-Plus Nationals
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Independent Tracker Records the 5,000th ICE Detainee Flown Out of MSP Since November 2025
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Eastern Airlines | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Intercept: ICE Coordinated With Iranian Government to Deport 100+ Iranians Across Four Flights, Launched During the Twelve-Day War
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Jake Lang and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, a Member of Mike Rogers's Senate Campaign Faith Leadership Team, Lead 'Christian Crusader March' on Dearborn City Council; 22 Arrested
6 src Mike Rogers · Abdul El-Sayed |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Lake Worth Beach Faces Vote on 10-Year, $16M-Per-Year PBSO Contract Advocates Say Deepens ICE Collaboration
2 src Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Memphis Committee Advances 12-Month Data Center Moratorium as Greensboro Hearing Anchors Spreading NC Wave
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: $75M Offering Exemption and a Safe Harbor That Sunsets Securities Status
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | US Sanctions ICC President Tomoko Akane and Prosecution Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye Under the ICC Sanctions Order; OFAC Issues Wind-Down General License 12
3 src Marco Rubio · Tomoko Akane · International Criminal Court |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Weber County, UT Approves ICE Reimbursement Deal Letting Sheriff Bill $3,387 and $14,789 for Deputy Hours
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Whistleblowers Say Harvard, Brown and Columbia Antisemitism Probes Had Predetermined Outcomes
1 src Department of Justice · Department of Health and Human Services · Columbia University · Harvard University | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | 200-Plus Pack Mercer County KY Zoning Hearing Against Panattoni's Project Bluegrass; Separate LPM Story Names Anthropic-Tied TeraWulf Project in Hancock County
6 src Anthropic | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Alamance County NC Commissioners Unanimously Enact One-Year Moratorium on Data Centers Requiring 10MW or More
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Bell County, TX Tables Data-Center Abatement Repeal as Judge Blackburn Warns It Would Forfeit All Leverage
3 src Meta | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | CBS Reports DOJ Plans 1,000 Monitors for the November Midterms, Citing Dhillon's Bloomberg Remarks; 289 in 2022, 714 in 2024
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · Civil Rights Division · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ's Minnesota Voter-Roll Suit, Pushing the Department to 0-23 in Court
5 src Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Flock Safety Adds Privacy Controls as Cities and Legislatures Exit ALPR Contracts Across Its 6,000-Community Network
5 src Flock Safety · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Harrington, DE City Council Unanimously Rejects Ordinance 25-08, Which Would Have Added Data Centers as a Conditional Use in the Manufacturing Zone
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Iowa's Pate Says No 2026 Potential-Noncitizen Challenge List Is Likely: The State Already Ran Its Own SAVE Check
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Spartanburg County SC Council Unanimously Delays Third Reading of 12-Month Data Center Moratorium to September 21
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | The $150M Award Collapses From the Recipient's Side: Burke Law Group Withdraws From ORR's Single-Source Children's-Counsel Agreement, and ORR Never Says Why
4 src Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Treasury Proposes GENIUS Act Section 3 Stablecoin Rules Defining Who May Issue in the U.S.
4 src U.S. Department of the Treasury · Tether | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | 140+ Detainees Launch Fourth 2026 Hunger Strike at Tacoma as Congresswomen Inspect and ICE Weighs Taking Facility From GEO
3 src GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | Journalist Shot by Federal Agents Nears 300 Days at Adelanto With Untreated Wound After Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
2 src Adelanto ICE Processing Center · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | DHS Surveilled at Least Five Midwest Churches While Under a Federal Injunction Barring It; Undercover Agent Dropped a Body Recorder on a Minneapolis Church Gym Floor
5 src Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach · Interfaith Alliance |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | Disputed: Six Republican States Were Not Scheduling August Special Sessions After Callais, Their Maps Were Enacted Earlier
3 src Texas Legislature · North Carolina General Assembly · Florida Legislature · Tennessee General Assembly · +2 | | disputed |
| 2026-08-14 | Cornell Reverses Protective Pledge, Threatens to Cut Funding Unless Targeted Grad Students Return to ICE Risk
1 src Cornell University · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | DHS AI Inventory Passes 200 Use Cases Including Palantir ELITE Deportation 'Confidence Scores' and Bulk 911 Call Ingestion
4 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · Electronic Frontier Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | FinCEN's Final Rule Makes the Domestic Beneficial-Ownership Exemption Permanent, With No Preemption Language Aimed at State Registries
1 src Financial Crimes Enforcement Network | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Nassau County Defies NY Deadline to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements as AG Prepares Legal Action
3 src Bruce Blakeman · Nassau County · New York Attorney General · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Niagara and Cattaraugus Sheriffs Miss NY Compliance Deadline as Seven Agencies Defy 287(g) Ban Ahead of Aug 25
4 src Letitia James · New York Office of Immigrant Trust · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | OCC Grants World Liberty Trust Company Preliminary Conditional Approval, Resolving Trump-Family and Emirati Ownership Questions Through Signed Passivity Commitments
2 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · WLTC Holdings LLC · Zachary Folkman · Jonathan Gould |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | X's open-sourced For You code lists two 2026 ranking changes: a July mutual-follow boost and an August Brazil election filter; no US-election rule appears
1 src X · xAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | 23 Movants File Rule 45 Motion to Quash HSI Subpoena to AAMVA (E.D. Va. 1:26-mc-00019); Judge Trenga Holds It in Abeyance Aug. 20 Citing the Companion DOT Case
2 src State of Illinois · Homeland Security Investigations · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators · Anthony J. Trenga | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | At Least 24 Deaths in ICE Custody in 2026, On Pace to Exceed 2025's Two-Decade Record of 33
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · National Immigration Project | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Attorney Challenges Oracle/OpenAI $43B Saline Township Tax Break, Arguing Township Skipped Required Public Hearing
3 src Oracle · OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | BIA Overturns 14-Year Precedent: Advance Parole Travel Now Triggers 10-Year Inadmissibility Bar
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Executive Office for Immigration Review | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Broker Cybba $52,400 for Failing to Register Under the Delete Act
2 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Colorado Issues Public Health Order 26-02 Compelling GEO Group to Surrender Aurora ICE Tuberculosis Records
4 src GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Court Filings Expose HSI's 'Operation Puppet Master' and 'Project Whipple Shield': Undercover Surveillance of Minnesota Unions, Churches and Activist Groups Began Before the Alex Pretti Killing
5 src Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Pam Bondi · Alex Pretti · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Federal Judge Poised to Block Warrantless ICE Arrest Tactics Across 19-Million-Person LA Region
2 src Gregory Bovino · ACLU · Public Counsel · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Fort Worth Advances Data Center Moratorium Unanimously; Louisville Passes Six-Month Freeze 24-1 Two Days Later
5 src ERCOT | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Michigan Democratic Party Files Campaign-Finance Complaint Against AG Nominee Doug Lloyd Over Seven-Month Contribution Gap
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | The Motion Behind the Exhibits: HSI Agent Desmond Garcia Told the Grand Jury No One Is Investigated for First Amendment Activity
1 src Isaac Sant · Kevin Riach · Homeland Security Investigations · Patrick Schiltz | | reported |
| 2026-08-12 | Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Brennan Center for Justice · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Fifth Circuit Panel Restores Nine Texas SB 1 Voting Provisions on Standing Grounds Weeks Before Midterms
3 src Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | ICE Confirms Third Delaney Hall Death — Jose Chajon-Raxon — Citing New Policy Ending Reports of Post-Release Detainee Deaths
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |