| 2026-10-27 | Judge Seabright Rules Essayli Is Unlawfully Serving as Los Angeles's Top Federal Prosecutor and Bars Him From Two Cases; Disqualification Delayed Pending a Stay Request
2 src Bill Essayli · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-27 | Supreme Court Denies Emergency Application, Leaving Same-Day Texas-DOJ Consent Judgment on Administrative Closure in Place
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Judge Furman Rules DOJ Illegally Fired Prosecutor Maurene Comey, Orders Reinstatement and Back Pay
3 src James Comey · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | Chief Judge Boasberg Moves the Government's Response to the Omar Search-Warrant Unsealing Applications to Oct. 27 and Lets DOJ Make Its Case for Delay Under Seal
4 src Ilhan Omar · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Himes and Warner Say Classified Report Shows Russia Opposes Pro-Ukraine Candidates, Prepare for Trump to Claim Foreign Meddling
2 src Mark Warner · Jay Clayton · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | Government Appeals CNN v. Trump Press-Pass Injunction to D.C. Circuit, No. 26-5356; No Stay Motion on District Docket
2 src Donald Trump · Sean M. Curran · Susan Wiles · Steven Cheung · +4 | | reported |
| 2026-10-14 | WSJ Reports, on Anonymous Sourcing, That the Omar Probe Aims at Revoking Her Citizenship; Grand Jury Subpoenas Reach Relatives, Passport and Devices Reportedly Seized
5 src Ilhan Omar · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2026-10-13 | Judge Kelly Grants Preliminary Injunction Against White House Hard-Pass Ban on CNN, Politico, MS NOW on Due Process and Two First Amendment Grounds
3 src Judge Timothy J. Kelly · CNN · Politico · MS NOW · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-12 | HSI Agents Search Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C.-Area Home on a DOJ-Secured Warrant 22 Days Before the Midterms; No Charges Filed
3 src Ilhan Omar · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Department of Justice · Tom Homan · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-10 | DOJ Antitrust Division Investigates ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News Over Pool Boycott After White House Barred CNN
3 src DOJ Antitrust Division · ABC News · CBS News · CNN · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-08 | Judge Kelly Extends TRO Against White House Press Ban Through Tuesday After PI Hearing, Presses DOJ on Rationale
2 src Judge Timothy J. Kelly · CNN · Politico · MS NOW · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-05 | White House Bars Politico From Air Force One Print Pool for Trump's Nebraska Campaign Stop; Other Outlets Decline the Seat
2 src Politico · CNN · CBS News · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-30 | DOJ Announces Wave of 90 Election Cases in 12 Days; DHS Claims 1,600 Fraud Investigations Ahead of Midterms
2 src DOJ · Todd Blanche · DHS · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-30 | Georgia Judge Dismisses DOJ Voter Data Lawsuit, Trump Administration's 26th Loss
2 src DOJ · Brad Raffensperger | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Supreme Court, 6-3, Lifts Block on Trump's Expanded SAVE Database for Voter Citizenship Checks
7 src Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-09-25 | White House Bars CNN From Air Force One TV Pool Seat for Tennessee Trip in Friday-Night Schedule Note; Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC Decline to Fill It
4 src CNN · Politico · MS NOW · Donald Trump · +6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Judge Kelly Grants 14-Day TRO Ordering Restoration of CNN, Politico, MS NOW Press Passes; White House Initially Non-Compliant
4 src Judge Timothy J. Kelly · CNN · Politico · MS NOW · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Schumer and Jeffries Sue to Bar Armed Federal Agents From November Polling Places
2 src Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Democratic Governors Association · Chuck Schumer · Hakeem Jeffries · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Judge Kelly Hears 46-Minute Argument on White House Press-Ban TRO, Takes Case Under Advisement
2 src Judge Timothy J. Kelly · Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. · U.S. Department of Justice · Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | DOJ's Late-Night Response Cites National Security to Justify White House Press Ban — a Rationale Trump Never Gave
2 src U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Sean M. Curran · CNN · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-21 | CNN, Politico and MS NOW Sue Trump Over White House Press-Pass Ban, Seek Temporary Restraining Order
3 src Donald Trump · Steven Cheung · Susan Wiles · Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-19 | White House Bars CNN, Politico, and MS NOW Reporters as Secret Service Confiscates Press Badges at the Gate
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Secret Service · CNN · Politico · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | International IDEA Finds US Democratic Performance at Its Lowest in 50 Years of Measurement
2 src United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-09 | Commerce 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 |
| 2026-09-09 | Trump Promises $5,000 'Dividend' to Every Adult Citizen, Conditioned on Republicans Holding Both Chambers
5 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Republican Party | | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-08-22 | 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 |
| 2026-08-20 | 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 |
| 2026-08-18 | 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 |
| 2026-08-15 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-08-12 | 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 | Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days
4 src Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Trump Declines to Rule Out National Security Emergency to Set 2026 Midterm Voting Rules
3 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ACLU Suit Against DOJ National Voter Database Proceeds as 12 States Comply Voluntarily, Courts Dismiss 5 State Challenges
3 src Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · Common Cause | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Chief Judge McConnell Discloses Six Death Threats; Loomer Doxxed His Daughter After Funding-Freeze Ruling
3 src John McConnell · Laura Loomer · U.S. Marshals Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | GAO: White House Stonewalled All DOGE Oversight Requests; Fewer Than Half of Agencies Cooperated
3 src Government Accountability Office | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Campaign Legal Center Documents EagleAI Rebrands ELLY and Psephos Being Pitched to State Election Officials
4 src Campaign Legal Center · Cleta Mitchell · Georgia State Election Board · American Oversight | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | DOJ Voter-Roll Suits Against Colorado, D.C. Both Dismissed — Colorado Ruling Forecloses Refiling
2 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | RNC Demands Michigan Poll Workers' Home Addresses and Medical Records — Benson Partially Denies
3 src Republican National Committee · Jocelyn Benson | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | SCOTUS Sets August 3 Response Deadline on Trump's Emergency Mail-Ballot Appeal as Midterms Near
3 src Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | ProPublica: Federal Judges Nationwide Chastise DOJ Lawyers for 'Unlawful,' 'Unethical' Conduct as Presumption of Regularity Erodes
1 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Trump Administration Races to SCOTUS Shadow Docket for Mail-Ballot Restrictions After First Circuit Upholds Block
2 src Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-16 | Trump Primetime Address Pushes SAVE America Act on Unsupported Claims
4 src Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | | reported |
| 2026-07-15 | Blanche Endorses ICE at 2026 Polling Places (CPAC, March 26) and, as Acting AG, Declines to Rule Out Federal Agents There (July 15)
3 src Todd Blanche · Steve Bannon · Ed Markey · Department of Justice · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | DOE Stipulates in Thakur v. Trump That 284 Terminated Grants Were Chosen by the Political Identity of the Recipient State
1 src Department of Energy · Office of Management and Budget | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-10 | Trump Fires Election Assistance Commission's Two Democratic Commissioners, Hicks and Hovland, Ten Days After Humphrey's Executor Overturned; Republican McCormick Allowed to Resign
4 src Donald Trump · Election Assistance Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-09 | DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act, Extending Federal Anti-Sanctuary Campaign to 21 States
3 src Department of Justice · Anthony Brown · Maryland | | reported |
| 2026-07-09 | Trump Fires Top Election Assistance Commission Staff Ahead of 2026 Midterms
1 src Donald Trump · Election Assistance Commission · Miles Taylor | | disputed |
| 2026-07-07 | DOJ Threatens Criminal Prosecution of Election Officials in All 50 States, Deploys Monitors to Democratic Jurisdictions
2 src Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-07 | NSPM-7 Operationalized: Local Police Build Antifa Files via Fusion Centers as FBI Offers $200K to Informant-ize Texas Activist
1 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-04 | No Kings Stages Nationwide July 4 Demonstrations Linking ICE Enforcement, Court Rulings, and Democratic Erosion
3 src No Kings Coalition · Women's March | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-03 | The Intercept Documents Trump DOJ's Pattern of Charging Protesters as Terrorists
2 src Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | House Rejects Its Own Rule for the NDAA Carrying the SAVE Act Push, 198-224; the Senate Never Voted on the Attachment; Citizenship-Proof Voting Laws Spread Across 9 States
4 src Mike Johnson · Brennan Center for Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-24 | Sixth Circuit hands DOJ first appellate defeat in voter-roll fight, affirming Michigan dismissal
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Jocelyn Benson | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-11 | FBI Raids Ohio Organizing Collaborative on 'Voter Fraud' Framing; Probe Expands to America Votes Network by June 17
5 src Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · Brennan Center for Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-29 | Landry Signs Louisiana Map Eliminating Its Second Black-Represented District, First Under Callais
3 src Jeff Landry · Supreme Court of the United States · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Tennessee Governor Lee Signs HB2219 Making All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) — First State Mandate of Its Kind
4 src Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | USCIS Ends Automatic Deportation Protection for Child Immigrants Awaiting Visa Backlog, Policy Takes Effect May 10
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Tennessee Governor Signs GOP Gerrymander Dismantling Sole Majority-Black Congressional District, Dividing Memphis Three Ways
4 src Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Donald Trump · Democracy Docket | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-29 | Supreme Court Guts Section 2 of Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, Reworking 40-Year Gingles Standard
4 src Samuel Alito · Elena Kagan · Sonia Sotomayor · Ketanji Brown Jackson | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-24 | ACLU and Common Cause Sue DOJ to Block National Voter Surveillance Database as Draft Emergency Election EO Circulates
6 src U.S. Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Common Cause · Protect Democracy | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-19 | Freedom House Reports U.S. at Lowest Score Ever, Net Decline of 12 Points Since 2005
3 src Freedom House |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | V-Dem Downgrades U.S. from Liberal Democracy to Electoral Democracy in Historic Report
3 src V-Dem Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-11 | Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-11 | No Kings Coalition Announces Nationwide March 28 Protests, Aims to Be Largest in U.S. History
4 src Indivisible · AFL-CIO · No Kings Coalition | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined
4 src Donald Trump · Public Citizen |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms
3 src Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | U.S. Records Sharpest Press Freedom Drop in Americas, Falls from 4th to 11th Place
3 src Donald Trump · Voice of America |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases
5 src U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes
5 src Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-08 | Legal Challenges Mount Against EPA Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
5 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Environmental Defense Fund · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders
4 src Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War
2 src U.S. Department of Justice · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-04 | OPM Data Confirms Federal Workforce Shrunk 12% Under DOGE, 386,000 Positions Eliminated
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of the Treasury · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-02 | USCIS Places Indefinite Adjudication Hold on Immigration Benefits for Nationals of Designated Countries (PM-602-0192), Expanded to 39 Countries on Jan 1
5 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2025-11-21 | North Dakota Supreme Court Reinstates Near-Total Abortion Ban Despite Unconstitutionality Finding
3 src Doug Burgum |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Creates Specialized National Guard Units for Domestic Deployment
4 src Donald Trump · National Guard |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-20 | Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Local Government Abortion Travel Assistance
3 src Greg Abbott · Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2025-08-20 | US Imposes Unprecedented Sanctions on Four International Criminal Court Officials
5 src Marco Rubio · Volker Türk |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-06 | Trump Imposes 50% Tariff on Brazil to Punish Prosecution of Bolsonaro
3 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2025-06-30 | DOJ Sues Los Angeles Over Sanctuary City Ordinance; Federal Judge Dismisses Suit June 2026
9 src Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2025-05-29 | Trump Administration Implements Loyalty Tests for Federal Hiring
4 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | | confirmed |
| 2025-05-27 | Missouri Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Restrictions Despite Voter-Approved Amendment
3 src Planned Parenthood |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-25 | Trump Administration Dramatically Weakens Independent Hatch Act Enforcement
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Hampton Dellinger · Paul Ingrassia · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-01 | Federal Agencies Fire 62,530 Workers in Two Months - 41,311% Increase Over 2024
3 src Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Interior · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | | confirmed |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented
3 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Committee to Protect Journalists · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis
5 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-26 | Orbán Names the Project: 'The New State We Are Building in Hungary Is an Illiberal State'
10 src Viktor Orbán |
| reported |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Black Panther Party · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1966-07-04 | Freedom of Information Act Signed After Decade of Executive Branch Opposition
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History
3 src Richard Russell | | confirmed |