Federal immigration agents arrest 50,000 people in August Arrests matched July's record pace, including a 76-year-old permanent resident with stage 4 prostate cancer who has been held in ICE detention since June. Posted on Sep 2, 2026 | Democracy Now
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
24 states sue to block new Postal Service rules for mail voting ahead of midterms A coalition of two dozen Democratic-led states and D.C. sued USPS over a new rule requiring states to enroll every mail voter with the Postal Service; a federal court granted a temporary restraining order halting core parts of it days later. Posted on Aug 26, 2026 | CBS News
Trump administration pauses visa appointments for applicants worldwide The pause follows a federal judge striking down Trump's ban on immigrant visas from 75 countries as exceeding Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statutory authority; the administration says it needs a global "retraining" of consular officers. Posted on Aug 25, 2026 | The Detroit News
Supreme Court gives Trump an interim win on his mail voting order, but hurdles loom The Court's conservative majority lifted a lower-court injunction blocking Trump's mail-voting executive order in 23 states, though a separate nationwide block on the Postal Service's implementation of it remains, and the underlying constitutional question is unresolved. Posted on Aug 24, 2026 | NPR
Trump's 75-country immigrant visa ban struck down by judge Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Southern District of New York ruled Secretary of State Marco Rubio's blanket freeze on immigrant visas from 75 countries "patently unlawful" and outside his statutory authority under federal immigration law. Posted on Aug 22, 2026 | CNN
Democrats sue DOJ over midterm ballot seizure plans The DNC filed a FOIA lawsuit seeking DOJ records on any plans to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election materials before the 2026 midterms are certified, after the department stonewalled a request filed in the wake of the FBI's raid on Fulton County's election records. Posted on Aug 21, 2026 | Courthouse News Service