Trump's mail-in ballot chaos rips through Democratic strongholds Counties like Leon County, Florida scramble to comply with the Trump administration's new barcode-tracking mandate for mail ballots weeks before the midterms. Posted on Sep 11, 2026 | Daily Kos
Federal Judges Rebuke ICE Detention as Similar to WWII Internment Camps The 4th Circuit becomes the ninth federal appeals court to reject Trump's mandatory no-bond immigration detention policy, with a Biden-appointed judge comparing it to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Posted on Sep 10, 2026 | Newsweek
FPF Seeks Order to Stop Trump From Monetizing Official Statements The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation moved for a preliminary injunction to stop Trump from selling paying Truth Social subscribers early access to his official posts, arguing the arrangement violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Posted on Sep 3, 2026 | Editor & Publisher
Judge blocks Trump's latest attempt to limit birthright citizenship U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that Trump's August executive order narrowing birthright citizenship "is almost certainly unconstitutional," rejecting his second attempt after the Supreme Court struck down his first. Posted on Sep 3, 2026 | Washington Post
Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS plan to restrict mail voting The administration asked the justices to let the Postal Service refuse to deliver mail ballots for voters not on a state-submitted list, the latest escalation in a monthslong fight over the executive order. Posted on Sep 3, 2026 | NPR
Trump's DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor's 'Strongest Possible' Objections DOJ leadership downgraded a civil rights charge against the ICE agent who shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis to a lesser false-statements count; the career prosecutor who objected was fired days after the story published. Posted on Sep 3, 2026 | ProPublica
ICE arrested 50,000 people in August, continuing record pace Third consecutive month ICE has broken its own monthly arrest record, with 50,925 arrests in August alone as the administration's nationwide enforcement surge shows no signs of slowing. Posted on Sep 1, 2026 | NBC News
USPS "carefully reviewing" whistleblower claim on plan for Trump's mail-in voting order A whistleblower told Sen. Blumenthal that USPS's rushed, untested barcode-verification system for implementing Trump's mail-voting order could reject an entire 10,000-ballot batch over a single scanning error, right as mail voting begins for the midterms. Posted on Sep 1, 2026 | NPR
Supreme Court lets Trump White House ballroom construction proceed A divided 5-4 Supreme Court erased a lower-court block on Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project, ruling the National Trust for Historic Preservation likely lacked legal standing to sue. Posted on Aug 31, 2026 | Axios
Trump says he will report NBC host to FCC for "rebuke or punishment" Trump escalated his attacks on the press by threatening to report "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker to the FCC after she described his midterm primary endorsements as having "mixed results," a claim NBC's own reporting backed up. Posted on Aug 30, 2026 | Washington Post