#Political-Persecution
Events indexed under #Political-Persecution — 28 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Directive Weaponizes Tax Enforcement Against Groups Labeled "Antifa" Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Grand Jury Rejects DOJ's Weaponized Prosecution of NY Attorney General Letitia James Letitia James · U.S. Department of Justice · Norfolk Virginia Grand Jury · Judge Cameron McGowan Currie · +8 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | DOJ Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment; Trump's Former Personal Attorney Leading Prosecution James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Michael Dreeben · Judge Michael Nachmanoff · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-11-14 | Trump Orders DOJ via Truth Social to Investigate Political Opponents Over Epstein Ties Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Bill Clinton · Larry Summers · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-11-04 | DOJ Escalates Investigation of 66-Year-Old Activist for Distributing Stephen Miller Protest Fliers U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · Barbara Wien · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-25 | Federal Grand Jury Convened to Investigate 'Conspiracy Against Trump' Chris Wray · Federal grand jury · Jack Smith · Lisa Monaco · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Secret Interagency Working Group Coordinates Trump Retaliation Against Political Opponents Pam Bondi · Tulsi Gabbard · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Federal Prosecutor Fired for Refusing Trump Demand to Indict Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Administration Plans IRS Overhaul to Target Liberal Donors and Nonprofits Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Gary Shapley · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-10 | DOJ-Cited Report on Soros Shows No Evidence of Terrorism Funding George Soros · U.S. Department of Justice · Conservative Report Authors | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | National Archives Releases Unredacted Military Records of Trump Opponent to GOP Operative National Archives · Mikie Sherrill · Nicholas De Gregorio · Chris Russell · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs NSPM-7 Labeling Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity, and 'Anti-Americanism' as Domestic Terrorism Indicators Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · JTTF · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump's Hand-Picked Prosecutor Indicts James Comey Days After Trump Demands DOJ Act 'Now' James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-12 | Trump Threatens Racketeering Investigation Against George Soros for Funding Protests Donald Trump · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · G. David Schine | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · Roy Cohn · Irving Saypol · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-04-01 | Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues Hollywood Ten · Dalton Trumbo · Ring Lardner Jr. · John Howard Lawson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · Ruth Greenglass · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-01 | State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges California Legislature · Earl Warren · University of California Board of Regents · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 1950-08-01 | State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support Paul Robeson · State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | confirmed | |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1945-01-03 | HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution U.S. House of Representatives · John Rankin · Martin Dies · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution Howard W. Smith · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | confirmed | |
| 1798-07-14 | Alien and Sedition Acts Criminalize Political Dissent and Democratic Opposition President John Adams · Federalist Party · Secretary of State Timothy Pickering · Democratic-Republican newspaper editors · +1 | confirmed |