#Executive-Overreach
Events indexed under #Executive-Overreach — 80 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-19 | D.C. Circuit Allows DOJ to Proceed With Appeals Challenging Law Firm Executive Order Rulings D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · Jenner & Block · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | DOJ Appeals Four Court Rulings Blocking Trump Executive Orders Targeting Political Opponent Law Firms U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · Susman Godfrey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | 24 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Democratic State AGs File Record 71 Lawsuits Against Trump Administration in First Year of Second Term Democratic State Attorneys General · New York Attorney General Letitia James · California Attorney General Rob Bonta · American Immigration Council | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | House Rejects Iran War Powers Resolution 212-219, Completing Congress's Abdication of War Authority Mike Johnson · Thomas Massie · Warren Davidson · Jared Golden · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Senate Formally Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution 47-53, Ceding War Authority to Trump Tim Kaine · Chuck Schumer · Adam Schiff · Rand Paul · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | DOJ Drops Then Rapidly Reverses Course on Law Firm Retaliation Cases in Chaotic 24-Hour Reversal U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Minnesota Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation into Border Patrol Chief Bovino Over ICE Operation Abuses Gregory Bovino · Mary Moriarty · Tom Homan · Kristi Noem · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Senate War Powers Resolution on Iran Fails as Republicans Defend Trump's Unauthorized War Tim Kaine · Chuck Schumer · Adam Schiff · Rand Paul · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | White House Offers Shifting, Contradictory Rationales for Iran War as Intelligence Contradicts Claims Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Steve Witkoff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-28 | Operation Epic Fury - US and Israel Launch Massive Military Strikes on Iran Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · CENTCOM · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-27 | Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Designates AI Company a Supply Chain Risk to National Security Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-26 | White House Circulates Draft Emergency Order to Seize Control of Federal Elections Donald Trump · Peter Ticktin · Abigail Jackson | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | Trump Moves Education Department Programs to HHS and State Without Congressional Approval U.S. Department of Education · HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) · Department of State · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-21 | Post-SCOTUS Tariff Pivot: Trump Invokes Section 122 Global Tariff and Launches Section 301 Investigations as Legal Workaround Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-21 | Trump Invokes Section 122 to Impose New Tariffs Within 24 Hours of Supreme Court Ruling Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-20 | Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs 6-3 in Historic Limitation on Executive Trade Authority John Roberts · United States Supreme Court · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Trump Issues DOGE Deregulatory Executive Order Requiring 60-Day Regulatory Review at All Agencies Including Independent Bodies Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Bondi Claims All Epstein Files Released, Sends Six-Page Justification Letter to Congress Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Robert Garcia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Trump Threatens Executive Order on Voter ID Despite Prior Court Defeats Donald Trump · White House · Chuck Schumer | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | House Democrats Launch Investigation into DOJ Congressional Surveillance Jamie Raskin · Pramila Jayapal · Robert Garcia · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | AG Bondi Photographed with Rep. Jayapal's Epstein Files Search History Pam Bondi · Pramila Jayapal · Department of Justice · Mike Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-06 | Trump Executive Order Authorizes Tariffs on All Iranian Trading Partners Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce · Department of State | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Federal Courts Issue Multiple Permanent Injunctions Blocking Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order U.S. District Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Brennan Center for Justice · Democracy Docket · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Trump Declares Cuba National Emergency, Threatens Tariffs on Oil Trading Partners Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce · Department of State | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-27 | Trump Executive Order Authorizes Federal Preemption of California Rebuilding Regulations Donald Trump · White House · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Small Business Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Advanced AI Semiconductors Under Section 232 Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Vance Announces DOJ Anti-Fraud Position to Be 'Run Out of the White House' JD Vance · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Tim Walz | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-04 | Trump Declares US Will 'Run' Venezuela After Military Invasion Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · JD Vance · Nicolas Maduro | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Pete Hegseth · Delta Force · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | Ninth Circuit Forces Trump to Return California National Guard Control to State Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Charles Breyer | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Alina Habba Resigns as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Following Appeals Court Ruling Alina Habba · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Desiree Grace · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-05 | Supreme Court Grants Review of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge, Setting Stage for Constitutional Crisis U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · American Civil Liberties Union · +5 | disputed | |
| 2025-12-03 | Treasury Secretary Proposes White House Veto Power Over Federal Reserve Regional Bank Presidents Scott Bessent · Department of the Treasury · Federal Reserve · Jerome Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-26 | DOJ Reveals Kristi Noem Made Final Decision to Defy Judge's Order on El Salvador Deportation Flights Kristi Noem · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-05 | Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History at Day 36 Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Senate Republicans · Congressional Democrats | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Budget Chief Russell Vought Seizes Congressional Spending Authority Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | OMB Removes Legal References to Federal Worker Back Pay Guarantees Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · Federal Workers · Chris Van Hollen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | White House Blocks $2.1 Billion Chicago Transit Funding as Political Retaliation Trump Administration · White House · City of Chicago · City of Portland | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges Russ Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Conservative Supreme Court Majority | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | Trump Notifies Congress of 'Non-International Armed Conflict' with 'Unlawful Combatants' in Caribbean Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Jack Reed | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-01 | White House Defunds Council of Inspectors General, Disabling Federal Oversight Office of Management and Budget · Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency · White House · Susan Collins · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission' U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-05 | Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War' Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-29 | OMB Director Russell Vought Inserts Political Conditions Into 100+ Budget Accounts, Blocking Congressional Appropriations Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Trump Invokes 'Pocket Rescission' to Claw Back $4.9 Billion in Congressionally Approved Foreign Aid Trump · State Department · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-22 | FBI Raids Home and Office of Trump Critic John Bolton John Bolton · Donald Trump · Kash Patel · John Ratcliffe · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-21 | Federal Judge Rules Alina Habba Unlawfully Serving as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Trump · Alina Habba · Department of Justice · Federal Judiciary | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Federal Judiciary Admits Systemic Failure in Presidential Accountability Mechanisms Federal Judiciary Leadership · Chief Justice · Judicial Conference · Senate Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Trump Fires Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Raising Concerns About Regulatory Capture Donald Trump · Christopher Hanson · Trent Morse · Nuclear Regulatory Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge Margaret Satterthwaite · UN Special Rapporteur · Supreme Court Justices · Sen. Cory Booker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-04 | Trump Expands Travel Ban to 19 Countries and Bans Harvard Students from Entry Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Harvard University · Department of State | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | Federal Courts Rule Trump's IEEPA Tariffs Illegal in Multiple Cases Donald Trump · Rudolph Contreras · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice · White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Government Must 'Facilitate' Abrego Garcia's Return Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Trump Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Trump Issues Border Tariff Executive Orders Using Drug Enforcement Pretext Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-03 | Trump Raises China Tariffs to 20 Percent Using Synthetic Opioid Justification Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Asserts Unitary Executive Control Over DOJ, Echoing Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre Donald Trump · Michael C. Dorf · Department of Justice · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies Donald Trump · Sergio Gor · Sen. Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Declares National Energy Emergency on First Day to Bypass Environmental Regulations Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Declares Nine National Emergencies in First 100 Days, More Than Any Modern President Donald Trump · Elizabeth Goitein · Brennan Center for Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Systematic assault on judicial independence begins Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Law firms | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden · Alabama Association of Realtors | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-27 | Trump Signs Muslim Ban (Executive Order 13769) Causing Airport Chaos and Mass Visa Revocations Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jim Mattis · State Department | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-17 | Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order Matt Bevin · Kentucky Retirement Systems · Thomas K. Elliott · Kentucky Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-09 | Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring Paul LePage · Mark Eves · Good Will-Hinckley | confirmed | |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Andy Card · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Relocation Authority · U.S. Army Western Defense Command · John L. DeWitt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1936-08-24 | Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Cordell Hull · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1908-07-26 | Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition Attorney General Charles Bonaparte · President Theodore Roosevelt · Stanley Finch · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-11 | Polk Deceives Congress into War Declaration with False American Blood Claims James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · U.S. Congress · Abraham Lincoln · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1843-10-16 | Tyler Begins Secret Texas Annexation Talks to Strengthen Slave Power John Tyler · Abel P. Upshur · Isaac Van Zandt · Slave Power | confirmed | |
| 1841-09-13 | Whigs Expel Tyler After Bank Vetoes Reveal States' Rights Corruption Agenda John Tyler · Henry Clay · Whig Party · Cabinet Members | confirmed | |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · Roger Taney · William Duane · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1833-09-26 | Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit Andrew Jackson · Roger Taney · Louis McLane · William J. Duane · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1832-03-03 | Supreme Court Rules Georgia Cannot Seize Cherokee Lands; Jackson Refuses to Enforce Decision John Marshall · Andrew Jackson · Samuel Worcester · Cherokee Nation · +2 | confirmed |