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Policy Illegality (Executive Watch)

The Trump Administration Issues Subpoenas to Social Media Platforms Demanding That They Rat Out Protesters, Massively Expanding the…
One of the grievances the Trump administration cites against previous administrations is the government seeking cooperation from social media companies…
 • Executive Watch
RFK Jr.-Led FDA Rejects Moderna's mRNA Flu Vaccine After Suddenly Announcing Standards Never Required Before
The best thing Donald Trump did in his first term was his rapid approval and support for mRNA vaccines against Covid.
 • Executive Watch
Republicans Urged by President to 'Nationalize Voting' in an Attempt to Unconstitutionally Grab Power From States
Donald Trump repeatedly lied that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him because he can’t stand the idea that he was defeated.
 • Executive Watch
Federal Agents Arrest Journalist Don Lemon for Committing Journalism in Minnesota
The Trump administration has been seeking to prosecute protesters who disrupted a Minnesota church service led by a pastor who is also an ICE official.
 • Executive Watch
ICE Is Systematically Defying Court Orders Against its Violent, Illegal, and Unconstitutional Tactics in Minneapolis
The lawlessness of the administration’s occupation of Minneapolis was highlighted recently when a judge listed almost 100 court orders that ICE and…
 • Executive Watch
DHS Is Building Secret Databases of Anti-ICE Protesters, Pro-Palestinian Activists, and Other Dissenters to Target Them as 'Domestic…
The Trump administration is obsessed with describing anyone who might oppose it as a “domestic terrorist”—which is pretty rich for the guys who staged…
 • Executive Watch
ICE Wants You to Believe That it Was Justified in Executing Alex Pretti for Exercising His First and Second Amendment Rights
The shooting of Alex Pretti, another observer of the federal anti-immigration occupation in Minnesota, would seem to go beyond the murder of Renee Good…
 • Executive Watch
ICE's Secret Plan to Gut the Fourth Amendment's Prohibition Against Warrantless Searches and Seizures and Kidnap People From Their Homes
A hallmark of the Trump administration’s occupation of Minnesota is federal immigration agents demanding to enter houses without a judicial warrant…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Abuses His Tariff Power, Violates Treaty Obligations, and Breaks His Own Deal to Extort NATO Allies to Hand Over Greenland
Donald Trump is supposed to go to Congress if he wants to do any of three things: raise tariffs, engage in military conquest, or repudiate our treaty…
 • Executive Watch
A Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Denounces the Administration's 'Unconstitutional Conspiracy' to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students
We’ve been warning that the Trump administration’s attempt to deport foreign students for their political views is an attack on the First Amendment.
 • Executive Watch
Trump's Lackey Continues to Identify as a US Attorney, Defying a Court Ruling That Found Her Improperly Appointed
A court ruled that one of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers is not legitimately serving as the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
The Pentagon Illegally Disguised a Military Aircraft as a Civilian Plane—and Killed 11 People in the Caribbean
Donald Trump’s bizarre campaign to attack random boats off the shore of South America is a series of war crimes nested within other war crimes.
 • Executive Watch
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