Civil Rights

Minnesota judge fines Trump DOJ attorney $500 daily in first contempt sanction

U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino held DOJ attorney Matthew Isihara in civil contempt on February 19, 2026 — the first court-ordered sanction against a Trump administration official in his second term — after ICE released a detainee in Texas instead of Minnesota and withheld his identification documents in defiance of three parts of her order

Stephen Miller directs DHS-DOJ campaign to strip citizenship from naturalized voters

A secret memo targets citizens who may have voted before completing naturalization

FCC's Carr launches enforcement against The View for hosting Senate candidate, triggering CBS to pull Colbert interview

When Carr threatened ABC's broadcast license, CBS pulled a Colbert interview — then the rule backfired across conservative media

Zuckerberg testifies in landmark social media addiction trial

Social media''s ''Big Tobacco moment'': first jury trial on whether platforms deliberately addicted children

HUD proposes evicting mixed-status families from subsidized housing

Federal housing agency targets 37,000 U.S. citizen children with eviction of mixed-status families

DHS orders detention of legal refugees who lack green cards

DHS creates detention trigger for refugees whose green card process the government itself has frozen

FOIA documents reveal ICE knew of 353% force increase before Minneapolis killings

67 force incidents in two months, leadership briefed but took no public action

NY redistricting fight heads to Supreme Court as deadlines loom

Trump DOJ backs GOP map as Feb 24 petitioning deadline blocks any redraw

Oscar nominated Iranian screenwriter freed after seventeen days in prison

Panahi and Mahmoudian met in Evin prison, wrote Palme d'Or winner together

FCC proposes restricting phone and internet subsidies to citizens only

8 million low-income subscribers face new ID barriers and citizenship tests