| 2026-08-12 | Judge Abelson Vacates Howard County's Permit Revocations, Clearing Elkridge ICE Warehouse Conversion to Resume
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | 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 |
| 2026-08-12 | Louisiana PSC Votes 3-1 to Let Meta Hide Electricity Demand Data for $50B Hyperion Campus
3 src Meta Platforms · Sierra Club | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Texas Tribune Investigation: 60+ Children Held 100+ Days at Dilley, Five Times the Flores Settlement's 20-Day Cap
2 src CoreCivic | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | USCIS Alerts E-Verify Employers El Salvador TPS Is Set to Terminate Sept. 9 While DHS Announces No Decision
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Alachua County FL Passes a Non-Binding Immigration Resolution 4-0 While Staff Say Its Funding Effect Is 'Open to Interpretation'
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | DHS Scraps 8,500-Bed Socorro Mega-Detention Plan and Transfers $123M Warehouses to GSA for Sale — 9th of 11 Abandoned
4 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · General Services Administration · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Dover, DE City Council Committee of the Whole Votes Unanimously to Advance 18-Month Data Center Moratorium; Full Council Vote Expected October
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-08-11 | ICE Bodycam Rollout On Track for August, But Footage Release Left to Agency Discretion
1 src David Venturella · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | ICE HSI Washington D.C. Issues 8 U.S.C. 1225(d) Immigration Enforcement Subpoena to AAMVA for Five Years of CDLIS Driver Records, Due Aug. 17
2 src Homeland Security Investigations · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators · Department of Homeland Security · Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Trump Declines to Rule Out National Security Emergency to Set 2026 Midterm Voting Rules
3 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Walker County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium 180 Days; Creates Standards Study Committee
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Wisconsin PSC Forces ATC to Restart $1.7B Port Washington Data Center Grid Application; FERC Gap Leaves Ratepayer Cost-Shift Unresolved
2 src Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | California Issues First Combined CCPA + Delete Act Enforcement Action, Fines Data Broker LocateSmarter $116,490
3 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | EAC Staff Memo Lists What a Commission With No Members Can and Cannot Do: Certification and Grants Continue, VVSG and the Mail Registration Form Are Frozen
2 src Election Assistance Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Hennepin County Says It Denied a DOJ Request to Send Staff Into Polling Places for the Aug. 11 Primary; DOJ Monitors to Stay Outside a 100-Foot Boundary
2 src Hennepin County Attorney's Office · Mary Moriarty · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Agents Box In and Point Gun at US Citizen Carolina Molina in Falls Church; Six House Members Demand FBI Probe
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · James Walkinshaw · Robert Garcia · Bennie Thompson · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Gives Notice It Intends to Sole-Source LexisNexis Data Access, Estimated at $6.7M; Press Reads Palantir and Facial-Recognition Requirements Into the Attached Statement of Work
5 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Solicits Up to $20M in Electric Shock Gloves Whose Manufacturer Warns They Can Cause 'Sudden Death'
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Human Rights Watch | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Indianapolis Council Pauses New Data Centers 23-1 Through 2027, Exempting Three Already-Approved Projects
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Lawfare Documents Three DHS AI Systems in Live Immigration Enforcement Without Independent Testing or Disclosure
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Meta's 'Forge the Future' PAC Funds Florida Legislative Leaders Who Killed AI Bill of Rights, Weakened Data Center Rules
1 src Meta Platforms | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Nessel and Earthjustice File Appeal Briefs Against MPSC Approval of DTE's Stargate Data Center Contracts
4 src Dana Nessel · Earthjustice · Michigan Public Service Commission · DTE Energy · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | NY Democratic Chair Asks State Board of Elections and Campaign Finance Board to Enforce AI Disclaimers on Blakeman's Ads; Statute Gives Enforcement to Depicted Candidates, Not the Board
2 src Bruce Blakeman | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | NYT: Trump's World Liberty Financial Took $100M From UK Money-Laundering Suspect Bobby Zhou; SEC Has Not Acted
3 src World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Steve Witkoff · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Wired: DHS Pays Contractors to Photograph Deported People's Homes Abroad
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-09 | Fulton County Votes 5-0 to Halt Data Center Tax Abatements Citing $1.1B Statewide Revenue Loss as Microsoft Unwinds Atlanta Deals
3 src Microsoft | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-08 | Senate Confirms Trump's Former Defense Lawyer Todd Blanche as Attorney General, 50-49
5 src Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Bill Cassidy · Susan Collins · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-08 | Thune Files Cloture Setting Sept 15 CLARITY Act Showdown After Senate Misses Its Own August Deadline
4 src John Thune · United States Senate · Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | GOP Congressional Candidate Calls US Citizens Shot Dead by ICE 'Collateral Damage'
1 src Renee Good · Alex Pretti | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ICE Arrests 75+ U-Visa Crime Victims During Operation Metro Surge, Reversing Decades of Protection Policy
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Illinois HB 5024 Becomes Public Act 104-0786: Immigration Detention Centers May Not Be Located Within 1,500 Feet of Schools, Homes and Places of Worship
2 src JB Pritzker | | reported |
| 2026-08-07 | NJ AG Davenport Issues Civil Rights Subpoenas to GEO Group's Delaney Hall, Escalating From Suit to Investigation
3 src Jennifer Davenport · GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ORR Awards Our Rescue a $158.1M Non-Competed 'Urgency' Contract to Represent Migrant Children — One Day After a Federal Judge Wrote That It 'Appears' No Mechanism Existed for Injunction Compliance
9 src Burke Law Group PLLC · Acacia Center for Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | | reported |
| 2026-08-07 | Trump Judicial Pipeline Slows After 53 Confirmations in 18 Months — All Circuit Vacancies Filled, 49 Seats Left
3 src Donald Trump · United States Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Warrick County IN: Special Aug 11 Vote on Moratorium + Zoning for Undisclosed 1,200-Acre 'Project Zora'
2 src | | 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 |
| 2026-08-06 | Advocacy Groups Rally Broome County Courthouse as 287(g) Termination Deadline Nears
3 src Fred Akshar · Broome County · New York Office of Immigrant Trust | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | AG Nessel's Michigan Court of Appeals Brief Names Docket Numbers, Argues DTE's Own Filings Admit a Ratepayer Cost Increase
6 src Dana Nessel · Michigan Public Service Commission · DTE Energy · Oracle · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Environmental Groups' Court of Appeals Brief Itemizes What DTE's Oracle Data-Center Contracts Charge Other Customers: $260M Rate Base, ~$40M First-Year Distribution Increase
2 src Natural Resources Defense Council · Sierra Club · Earthjustice · Michigan Public Service Commission · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | FCC Votes to Repeal the National Television Ownership Cap and Replace It With Case-by-Case Review; Gomez Dissents (Adopted August 6, Text Released October 1)
2 src Federal Communications Commission · Brendan Carr · Anna Gomez | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Federal Authorities Threaten Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt With Prosecution Over ICE Detainer Refusal
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | GAO Audit Finds 96% of DOGE Grant Savings Unverifiable, $27.4B in Claimed Contract Cuts Never Executed
3 src Government Accountability Office · Gary Peters · Richard Blumenthal · Department of Government Efficiency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ICE Operates 42 Internal AI Tools But Disclosed Only 23; Delaney Hall Logs Third Death ICE Never Announced
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Austin Kocher · American Immigration Council | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Lawfare Documents That Most ICE AI Tools Never Appear in DHS's Public AI Use Case Inventory
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security · Clearview AI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ORR Announces Intent to Hand a Three-Year-Old Houston Energy-Law Boutique up to $150M, Single-Source, to Represent Unaccompanied Children — Citing the Court Injunction It Was Under
4 src Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | State Embezzlement Case Against Michigan Graduate Union President Hiab Teshome Dismissed — Federal Grand Jury Subpoena to Her Union Signed the Same Day
9 src University of Michigan · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | reported |
| 2026-08-06 | Trump Signs New Birthright Citizenship Executive Orders Weeks After SCOTUS Ruled the Restriction Unconstitutional
1 src Donald Trump | | 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 | Federal Judge Holds DHS in Contempt for Failing to Preserve ICE Agents' Personal Phone Records From LA Sweeps
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | GAO: White House Stonewalled All DOGE Oversight Requests; Fewer Than Half of Agencies Cooperated
3 src Government Accountability Office | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | ICE Weighs Buying Moshannon Valley Detention Facility Outright as Clearfield County PA Contract Nears September Expiration
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Judge Reyes Confirms Her Stay of Haiti TPS Termination Is 'No Longer in Effect' After D.C. Circuit Mandate, Denies Government Request to Halt Discovery in Miot v. Trump
3 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-08-05 | Mother Jones Documents ICE Undercounting In-Custody Deaths, Profiles Trejo Ricano at Stewart Detention
1 src GEO Group | | 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 | CoreCivic Signs $536M, 5-Year Contract to Reopen Appleton MN's Prairie Correctional as 1,600-Bed ICE Facility
4 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | CoreCivic's SEC Filings Put the Appleton Prison Sale to DHS at About $495.6 Million
2 src CoreCivic · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | reported |
| 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 |
| 2026-08-04 | Effingham County GA Commissioners Pass Industrial-Zoning Ordinance With Project Camellia Off the Agenda
6 src OpenAI | | reported |
| 2026-08-04 | El-Sayed Defeats Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate Primary by 1 Point, on Record Turnout, Despite $30M+ AIPAC Onslaught
13 src Abdul El-Sayed · Haley Stevens · Mike Rogers | | reported |
| 2026-08-04 | Federal Court in Sherman, Texas Adjudges Federico Andrés Machado Guilty of Money-Laundering and Wire-Fraud Conspiracy on a May 18 Plea; Sentencing Set for Nov. 10
6 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | ICE Obtained Court Orders to Force-Feed 18 Hunger-Striking Detainees Across Four Federal Districts
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Jeffersonville IN Council Votes 8-0 for 1-Year Data Center Moratorium; Meta's Near-Complete Facility Exempted
2 src Meta Platforms | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Little Rock Board of Directors Rejects Data Center Moratorium on a 4-4 Vote
1 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Senate Judiciary Advances Blanche AG Nomination 12-10 as Catalog Documents 200+ Instances of DOJ 'Presumption of Regularity' Collapse
3 src Todd Blanche · Senate Judiciary Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | Gov. Abbott Freezes Texas Data Center Grid Connections, Orders ERCOT/PUCT Audit
3 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas · Meta Platforms · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | Kevin Ramirez Mancia, U-Visa Petitioner Held Four Months in Freeborn County Jail, Wins Federal Habeas Release
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | La Crosse WI City Plan Commission Advances 18-Month Data Center Freeze; Council Vote Aug 13
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | NC Data Center 'Moratorium Fever': 11 Counties, 17 Towns Ban Hyperscale Development; Durham Hearing Set Aug 24
2 src Mike Lee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance Tools to Identify Columbia Gaza Paint-Splatter Protester, Documents Show
1 src New York Police Department · The Intercept · Columbia University | | 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 |
| 2026-08-02 | California's AI Transparency Act Becomes Operative, Mandating Provenance Watermarks as Federal Preemption Advances
3 src State of California · Gavin Newsom | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-02 | EU AI Office Gains Full Penalty Powers Over General-Purpose AI; Article 50 Chatbot Disclosure Becomes Enforceable
3 src European Commission · OpenAI · Google · Meta | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-02 | ICE Sets Second-Term Monthly Record: 46,000 Detained in July 2026 as In-Custody Deaths Reach 24+
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | Acentra's ICE Medical Claims System Has Processed Zero Claims While Hospitals Absorb Detainee Care Costs
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Veterans Affairs | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | California's DROP Platform Goes Live — First US Centralized Data-Broker Deletion Mechanism, 45-Day Check Cycle
7 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | DOJ Directs US Attorneys to Submit Adverse Rulings as Judicial Impeachment Fodder; Blanche Calls It 'War' on the Judiciary
4 src Todd Blanche · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Dies at Delaney Hall After Medication Denial, 23rd ICE Custody Death of 2026, Second at GEO's $1.2B NJ Facility
5 src GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · House Judiciary Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | ICE Electronic Monitoring Triples to 54,000 Immigrants; GEO Group Projects Growth to 450,000
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | Clark County, IN Residents Demand Oversight of $3M Jail-ICE Detention Contract
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | E. Kahn Development Sues Montgomery Township, NJ for $300M Over an Ordinance Banning Both Data Centers and Detention Centers
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | GEO Group Subsidiary GEO Reentry Services Has Given Trump-Aligned Super PAC MAGA Inc. $4.4 Million; Latest Payment July 31, 2026
4 src MAGA Inc. | | reported |
| 2026-07-31 | Kalshi Launches Prediction Market Letting Traders Bet on ICE's Daily Arrest Count
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | Virginia SCC Orders Dominion to Shift Transmission Costs to Data Centers, Cutting Residential Bill Impact to $0.94
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Court-Appointed Monitor Finds CoreCivic's California City ICE Facility in Sustained Medical Failure, Violating Court Order
3 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · American Civil Liberties Union | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | ICE Widens Airport Arrests to Legally-Present Migrants Using TSA Checkpoint Database Matching, No Warrants
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Transportation Security Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Mother Jones Investigation: Anti-ICE Protesters Prosecuted as Antifa Under Trump's Terrorism Framework
1 src Mother Jones · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | New York AG Orders 12 Jurisdictions to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements by August 25; Madison County Sheriff Publicly Defies
3 src New York Office of Immigrant Trust · Broome County | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Ninth Circuit Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory Detention Expansion, Joining Four Other Circuits Against the Fifth and Eighth
3 src Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | Data Centers Emerge as Wedge Issue in Michigan's 2026 Democratic Primary, Traverse City Resistance Grows
1 src Abdul El-Sayed · Haley Stevens | | reported |
| 2026-07-29 | DeSoto County, FL Commissioners Approve One-Year Data Center Moratorium, Preserving Carve-Out for 800-Acre Project
3 src DCIP Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | GEO Group Signs 5-Year, $80M/Year ICE Contract for Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC, Over Governor Stein's Objection
3 src GEO Group · Josh Stein · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | ICE Adds 5,500 Beds Toward 100,000-Person Detention Goal as June 2026 Arrests Hit Record 43,000
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | ICE Posts Emergency SAM.gov Solicitation for 5,500 Detention Beds Across Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Miami — Courts Embedded On-Site
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Writes DHS Back on Its 14,576 Figure
1 src Al Schmidt · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | Trump and DOJ Jointly Petition SCOTUS to Vacate $83M Carroll Verdict, Substitute Government as Defendant
2 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Augusta Township, MI Voters Overturn Thor Equities $1B Data Center Rezoning 89.5%-10.4%
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Columbia County GA Approves Google Data Centers, Sends Property-Tax-Relief Plan to November Referendum
3 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | International Motors Files WARN Notice for Both Springfield Plants Ahead of Roshel Sale
1 src | | reported |