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Washington Post Finds at Least 19 of About 300 Reviewed ICE Hires Had Use-of-Force, Lawsuit or Firing Records

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Washington Post identified at least 19 recruits with questionable backgrounds after examining approximately 300 ICE officers hired since January 2025 ([Yahoo News summary of the Post](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/report-ice-hired-officers-troubled-170223911.html)).

The Cascade Ledger — Recent additions

Washington Post Finds at Least 19 of About 300 Reviewed ICE Hires Had Use-of-Force, Lawsuit or Firing Records

Greene County Judge Denies Developer's Bid to Block Springfield, Missouri's 120-Day Data Center Moratorium; Council to Vote Nov. 16 on Extension

HSI Identified More Than 185,000 Administrative Subpoenas Potentially Responsive to EFF's FOIA Request, Court Filing Shows; WIRED Reported It as Subpoenas Sent

Louisiana Landowners Sue the Public Service Commission Over the 'Lightning Speed Initiative' Ahead of the Meta Hyperion Power Vote

Ohio Capital Journal: Voters in All 18 Ohio Communities With Data Center Measures Chose to Curb or Ban Them; Piqua Recalls Commissioners Who Approved a Meta Data Center

Trump Nominates Palantir Security Chief Michael LoSapio to Lead CISA

Trump Says Iran War Is 'Militarily, Effectively Over' Days After Midterm Losses

AP: Staff of the Commerce Department's AI Safety Center Were Asked to Report Informally to the White House; the Center Has No Permanent Leader and Has Stopped Publishing Research

Johnson County, Iowa Counts About 2,000 Absentee Ballots Found Unopened in Storage; No Outcome Changes

Legal Group Says ICE Scheduled Iran-Bound Deportation Flight Despite Judge Reyes's Advance-Notice Order

Nvidia Board Opens Investigation After Reports CEO Jensen Huang Was Targeted by Chinese Intelligence; Huang Admits Affair

Trump Tells 60 Minutes His Deportation Crackdown "Both Helped and Hurt" Him at the Polls and May Have Been "Too Tough"

CENTCOM Stands Up Task Force Iron Gate to Cut Iran's Land-Border and Caspian Supply Routes

Jake Lang Disrupts Seattle Center Diwali Celebration With 'Deport All Dot Heads' Sign, Then Posts 'Hindus Flipped Texas Blue'; Jayapal Calls It 'Vile and Racist'

Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate Democrats Who Pledged Oversight; Blanche Will Not Rule Out Prosecuting Lawmakers

After the Midterms, Pardoned Jan. 6 Defendant Jake Lang Calls 'Christian Crusaders' to the Capitol on Jan. 3, 2027, to Protest Certification of the 'RIGGED Midterms'

CalMatters and Shasta Scout Sue Shasta County to Release the Federal Grand Jury Subpoena Over Its Ballots

Crusoe Sells Unfinished Southeastern Wyoming Data Center Project to Google, Which Plans $17 Billion Campus

Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger Opens Investigation After a Seminole County Memory Card Left Out of the Count Flips the House District 154 Lead

Houston Mayor Whitmire Signs Order Limiting Police Contact With ICE to Jailable Arrests, Days After Abbott Loses

Judge Charlotte Sweeney Orders ICE's Field Office Director to Court Over Re-Arrests of Colorado Detainees Federal Judges Ordered Released

Judge Lewis Kaplan Orders New York City to Give ICE the Names and Birthdates of Residents of the Bruckner Boulevard Shelter, Enforcing an ICE Subpoena

New Jersey Tells Court DHS Has Decided to Pursue Roxbury Warehouse Detention Center After Reported $31.8 Million SK2 Conversion Order

Peltola Campaign Group Sues Alaska Division of Elections to Make Public the Names of Rejected Absentee Voters

Plaintiffs Voluntarily Dismiss SEIU v. DOJ in N.D. Cal., the Case Whose Restraining Order the Ninth Circuit Stayed

San Francisco Chronicle: ICE's Own Mortality Reviews, Obtained Under FOIA, Found Deficient Medical Care Preceded 23 of 29 Detainee Deaths From January 2025 to January 2026

Sun-Times: Flock Safety Gave Campaign Money to Illinois Officials Whose Agencies Use Its Plate Readers, About $485,000 to Candidates Since Early 2024

Trump Names Stephen Miller, Architect of His Immigration Crackdown, White House Chief of Staff, Replacing Susie Wiles After Midterm Losses

U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones, Whose Office Ran the "Grand Conspiracy" Probe of Trump Foes, and National Security Division Chief John Eisenberg Resign

W.D. Wisconsin Magistrate Judge Boor Dismisses a Section 611 Noncitizen-Voting Charge, Applying a Same-Day Ruling That the Statute Is Unconstitutional as Applied

DOJ Counselor Henry Whitaker Moves to Withdraw in the Letitia James Appeal, Saying He Is Leaving the Government

DOJ Launches Super Intelligence Task Force, Merges Its AI Task Force Into It and Asks Prosecutors to Notify It Before Charging SI Matters

DOJ Sues Penn State Over In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students, Its 27th Suit Against In-State Tuition Policies

DTE Energy and Consumers Energy Sue in Federal Court to Block Michigan's Proposal 2, the Voter-Approved Ban on Utility Political Contributions

Florida's 27th Congressional District: Democrat Eliott Rodriguez Demands Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia Recuse From Recount After She Called Salazar the Winner

GAO: ICE Cut Detention Inspections as Population Grew; Ombudsman Office Shut; FY26 Law Dropped Funding Penalty

GM Agrees to $220 Million Settlement With 35 States and D.C. Over Smart Driver Data Sold to Brokers for Insurance Products

Guilford County, North Carolina, Commissioners Unanimously Adopt an 18-Month Data Center Moratorium After Shelving a Six-Month Pause

Harmeet Dhillon Resigns as DOJ Civil Rights Head; Blanche Says He Accepted the Resignation

Judge Whitehead Grants TRO in Part in OneAmerica Votes v. Trump, Barring DOJ and DHS From Demanding Washington Set Aside Listed Voters’ Ballots

Maine Morning Star: Voters in Peru, Wiscasset and Wells Approve Local Data Center Moratoriums After Gov. Mills Vetoed a Statewide Pause; North Berwick Ban Fails

Michigan: Oakland County Sheriff Sends Case of Former Deputy Accused of Accessing Flock Database After Joining ICE to Prosecutor; Ends Flock Drone Pilot

Musk Says SpaceXAI Is Building Two More Data Centers in Southaven, Mississippi; Mayor Says Company Is Offering to Buy 400+ Nearby Homes and Businesses

OpenAI Publishes a National Community Compact Pledging No NDAs With Public Officials at Future Campuses It Owns, and Asks Lawmakers to Write Similar Rules

Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed Registers "Habibi PAC" as a Leadership PAC, Days After Winning Michigan's Senate Seat

Wisconsin: Paid Social Media Posters Recruited Under Nondisclosure Agreement to Promote OpenAI/Oracle/Vantage Port Washington Data Center, Wisconsin Watch Reports

404 Media: Voters Rejected Data Centers in 38 of More Than 40 Midterm Races Across 13 States

Abdul El-Sayed Defeats Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate Race, Becoming the First Muslim Elected to the U.S. Senate

Arizona: SpaceX Hosts Cochise County Meeting on Proposed Six-Gigawatt Data Center Filed Under Tombstone Resources LLC

Casey County, Kentucky, Fiscal Court Approves 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Pending Water and Infrastructure Review

CoreCivic Reports $1,344.1 Million Q3 Net Income From Selling Four Detention Facilities to DHS for $2.2 Billion; CEO Urges ICE to Move Quickly on More Deals After Democratic Wins

Incoming House Democrats Plan to Widen Probes of Fatal ICE Shootings; Garcia Tells Officials 'Lawyer Up'

Judge Sweeney Opens Contempt Inquiry as ICE Official Testifies to a Direct Order to Re-Detain Habeas Releases

Mississippi Secretary of State Says About 3,600 Absentee-by-Mail Ballots Remain Outstanding as Counties Have Until Nov. 13 to Certify

Oregon City Commissioners Adopt 120-Day Moratorium on Data Center and Battery Storage Development, After Clackamas County's Own Moratorium

Alamance County, N.C., Sheriff Terry Johnson, a Long-Time ICE 287(g) Partner, Loses Re-election to Shannon Long

AP Calls the Texas Senate Race for James Talarico Over Ken Paxton; Texas Democrats' Senate Drought Had Run Back to 1988

CBS News Projects Democrats Will Retake the House Majority

Chicago Polling Places Run Out of Paper Ballots Across the City; Board of Elections Investigates Split Precincts

Democrats Win Control of the Senate, CBS News Reports

DOJ Press Release Says It Will Monitor Elections in All 50 States for the First Time, With About 1,000 Monitors and Observers

Florida PSC Rejects Duke Energy Florida's Data Center Tariff 5-0 as Not Complying With the State's Large-Load Cost Law

Fulton County Asks Georgia to Let It Rescan Just Over 1,000 Early Voting Ballots After Two Scanner Problems

ICE Posts an Election Day Warning to Voters: "If You Vote Illegally, We Will Find You"

Immigrant Defense Network Volunteers Staff 19 'Democracy Protector' Sites Across Minnesota Through Election Week, Growing Out of the Metro Surge Observer Trainings

Intercept: ICE Officials Say Agency Ordered a Halt to All Immigration Enforcement on Election Day

Michigan Officials Contact DOJ After Reports Its Election Monitors Questioned Poll Workers in Dearborn and Flint

Mississippi Voters Wrongly Inactivated on Experian Data Hit the Polls After Secretary of State Watson Ignored a Civil Rights Coalition's Demand to Reinstate Them

New Haven Ward Officials Say a DOJ Monitor, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Approached Voters Outside a Polling Place

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver Says DOJ Election Monitors Were Questioning Voters in Bernalillo County; DOJ Says Issue Resolved

North Carolina Extends Voting Hours at Precincts in Several Counties After Stoppages

On Election Day the Ninth Circuit en banc Court Reinstates the Panel Order Staying Judge Thompson's TRO Against DOJ and DHS Ballot Demands

Toledo Judge Lets Voters at a Polling Place Closed by a Bomb Threat Vote Provisionally Until 9:15 p.m.

Troy Jackson Defeats Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, Ending Her 30-Year Senate Career

Trump Says He Will Accept the Midterm Results as Democrats Win Both Chambers; Mullin Says He Sent No ICE Agents to the Polls

Voters in Eight States Approve Noncitizen-Voting Bans and Voter ID Amendments; Arizona, California and Colorado Measures Fail

Boasberg Enjoins DHS and DOJ From Demanding That California Segregate Ballots of Voters on the Suspected-Noncitizen Lists

DOJ Announces Charges Involving 63 Individuals for Election-Related Crimes the Day Before Election Day

DOJ Asks the Supreme Court to Make California Set Aside About 20,000 Flagged Mail Ballots the Day Before the Election