Civil Rights Suppression
The Civil Rights Suppression capture lane traces 335 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1142–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump · 13 Sanctuary States · 18 Sanctuary Cities | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | Army Issues $1.24B WEXMAC Task Order to Acquisition Logistics for Fort Bliss Soft-Sided Detention Facility
4 src Acquisition Logistics LLC · MICC Fort Sam Houston · U.S. Army · Kenneth Wagner | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-16 | Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency
13 src Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | New Jersey Becomes Official Sanctuary State as States Escalate Legislative Resistance to Federal Immigration Enforcement
4 src New Jersey Legislature · Governor Phil Murphy · California Legislature · Colorado Legislature · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Tennessee Enacts Broad Healthcare Refusal Law Allowing Denial of Contraception
3 src Tennessee Legislature · Tennessee Governor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-18 | State Department orders expanded visa screening protocols at all consulates
2 src Department of State · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-07 | Bovino's Home Depot Immigration Raid Standoff Triggers Trump's National Guard Deployment in LA
4 src Gregory Bovino · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · California National Guard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Missouri Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Restrictions Despite Voter-Approved Amendment
3 src Missouri Supreme Court · Judge Jerri Zhang · Planned Parenthood · Andrew Bailey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-20 | National Legal Resistance Training and Certification Program
3 src National Lawyers Guild · Center for Constitutional Rights · Law School Consortium | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-19 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Mass Exodus: ~400 Employees Depart as Dhillon Rewrites Mission to Target Trans Rights, Promote 'Anti-Christian Bias' Agenda
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | FBI Disbands Washington Public Corruption Squad Amid Broader Investigative Reorganization
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory B. Wormuth (D.N.M.) Begins Dismissing Federal Military-Trespass Charges at Probable-Cause Stage; 98-Case Mass Dismissal on May 15 Exposes Knowledge-Standard Flaw in NDA Architecture
7 src Gregory B. Wormuth · Ryan Ellison · Amanda Skinner · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | ICE arrests Newark Mayor during congressional oversight visit to detention facility
3 src Ras Baraka · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Rep. LaMonica McIver · Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries
3 src Department of Justice · Aetna · CVS Health · Humana · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion
4 src Johnson County Sheriff Adam King · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Allegheny County Courthouse ICE Arrest Handoff Protocol Activated as ICE Begins Targeting Pittsburgh Courts
4 src Susan Evashavik DiLucente · Kevin Kraus · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Allegheny County Sheriff's Office · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Operation Tidal Wave arrests 1,120 in Florida in largest single-state ICE operation
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Madison Sheahan · Ron DeSantis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump Signs NSPM-4 Transferring Roosevelt Reservation to DoD as First 'National Defense Area' at Southern Border; 170-Mile NM Strip Becomes Military Installation Without Congressional Approval
6 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Army · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding
5 src Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement
6 src Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood · National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-24 | FBI launches task force investigating violent attacks on Tesla
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Kash Patel · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | First Criminal Charges Filed Under Texas Abortion Ban: Midwife Faces 20 Years
3 src Maria Margarita Rojas · Jose Ley · Texas Attorney General · Ken Paxton | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-14 | Trump Signs Proclamation 10903 Invoking 1798 Alien Enemies Act Against Tren de Aragua, First Use Outside Declared War Since World War II Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Marco Rubio · James Boasberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | ICE makes 32,809 arrests in first 50 days of Trump administration
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Eliminates Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
5 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-09 | 28-year-old political operative appointed ICE Deputy Director despite lacking required experience
3 src Madison Sheahan · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Study Finds 50% Spike in Pregnancy-Related Sepsis and Deaths in Texas After Abortion Ban
3 src Texas Department of Health · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · University of Texas | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Multi-Organizational Civil Rights Litigation Coordination Summit
4 src Lawyers for Civil Rights · Brennan Center · EarthJustice · American Civil Liberties Union · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies
5 src Emil Bove · Danielle Sassoon · Hagan Scotten (Assistant US Attorney) · Eric Adams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | DOE Reverts Title IX to Trump-Era 2020 Rules, Narrowing Sexual Harassment and Gender Identity Protections
4 src Department of Education · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care
3 src Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection
2 src Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Signs EO 14173 'Ending Illegal Discrimination' — Foundational Anti-DEI Order Requiring Federal Contractor Certification
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion'
8 src Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Louisiana Grand Jury Indicts New York Physician for Providing Medication Abortion
3 src Louisiana Grand Jury · New York Physician · Louisiana Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-24 | H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy
3 src Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
12 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-27 | ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility
3 src Carlo Jimenez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security OIG · Merit Systems Protection Board | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-24 | Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds
2 src Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-18 | Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
3 src Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-10 | Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests
4 src Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-06 | Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network
3 src Steven Carrillo | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-15 | Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions
11 src LUMA Energy · Quanta Services · Canadian Utilities Limited · Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-18 | CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders
3 src Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-12 | SPLC Exposes Stephen Miller White Nationalist Emails: 900 Messages Promoting Racist Literature and Hate Sites
3 src Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness
3 src PredPol · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-15 | Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination
2 src Javier Valdez Cárdenas · Andrés Villarreal · Ismael Bojórquez · Citizen Lab · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Florida Voters Approve Amendment 4 Restoring Voting Rights to 1.4 Million with Felony Convictions
4 src Florida voters · Desmond Meade · Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-27 | Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: Gab-Radicalized Gunman Kills 11 in Deadliest Antisemitic Attack in US History
3 src Robert Bowers · HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) · Tree of Life Congregation | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-22 | Trump Adopts 'Invasion' Rhetoric Mainstreaming Great Replacement Theory Before Midterms
4 src Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-26 | ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias
4 src American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder
3 src Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-10 | Zeynep Tufekci Exposes YouTube as "The Great Radicalizer": Recommendation Algorithm Systematically Pushes Users Toward Extremism
3 src Zeynep Tufekci · Guillaume Chaslot · YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-11 | Trump Calls Haiti and African Nations 'Shithole Countries' in Bipartisan Immigration Meeting
4 src Donald Trump · Dick Durbin · U.N. Human Rights Office · African Union | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent
3 src North Carolina General Assembly · David Lewis · Robert Rucho · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-28 | Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations
4 src Donald Trump · MS-13 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-06 | Trump Signs Travel Ban 2.0 (Executive Order 13780) - Revised Muslim Ban After Courts Block Original
2 src Donald Trump · Derrick Watson · Doug Chin · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-27 | Trump Signs Muslim Ban (Executive Order 13769) Causing Airport Chaos and Mass Visa Revocations
3 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jim Mattis · State Department | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-20 | Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
4 src Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-19 | Richard Spencer's NPI Conference: "Hail Trump, Hail Our People" — The Alt-Right Goes Public
2 src Richard Spencer · National Policy Institute | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-08 | Rumors Surface of Apprentice Outtakes Showing Trump Using N-Word, Burnett Refuses Release
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-10 | UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware
3 src Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-02 | Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism"
3 src Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-29 | NBC Fires Trump from The Apprentice Following Racist Comments About Mexican Immigrants
3 src Donald Trump · NBC | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-17 | White Supremacist Dylann Roof Murders Nine Black Worshippers at Historic Charleston Church - Confederate Flag Controversy Exposes South Carolina's Institutional Racism
4 src Dylann Roof · Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church · Clementa C. Pinckney · Nikki Haley · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-16 | Trump Descends Escalator with "Rapists" Speech: Breitbart Pivots to Full Campaign Organ
2 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Breitbart News | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-16 | Trump Launches Presidential Campaign Calling Mexican Immigrants 'Rapists' and Criminals
4 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-13 | GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It
3 src General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion"
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-25 | Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-21 | Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration
3 src Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-25 | Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City
4 src Darnell Earley · Flint Department of Public Works · Michigan Department of Environmental Quality | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability
5 src Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley · Mona Hanna-Attisha · LeeAnne Walters · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program
3 src Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters
4 src Texas Legislature · Republican Party · MALDEF | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-02 | Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy
5 src Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · John Boehner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization
3 src Reddit Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program
3 src NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress
3 src Sergei Magnitsky · Bill Browder · Benjamin Cardin · John McCain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-15 | PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded
2 src George Mohler · Jeff Brantingham | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir
3 src LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Craig Uchida · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering
4 src North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party · Robert Rucho · David Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc
2 src George W. Bush · Ken Blackwell · Rod Parsley · Russell Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-23 | Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit
3 src Justice Sandra Day O'Connor · Justice Clarence Thomas · University of Michigan Law School · Lee Bollinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution
2 src DynCorp International · Kathryn Bolkovac · United Nations | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-01 | Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities
3 src Household Finance Corporation · Associates First Capital · Citigroup · Ameriquest · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation
4 src Florida Legislature · The Sentencing Project | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Local law enforcement agencies | confirmed | |
| 1996-09-30 | Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-28 | Hillary Clinton Delivers "Super-Predators" Speech Supporting 1994 Crime Bill
4 src Hillary Clinton · Bill Clinton | confirmed | |
| 1994-10-01 | Operation Gatekeeper Launches Clinton Border Militarization, Funneling Migrants to Deadly Terrain
3 src Bill Clinton · Janet Reno · Doris Meissner · Immigration and Naturalization Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Fuels Mass Incarceration
4 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Jack Brooks | confirmed |