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Just Security

Independent law & policy journal

Fact-Checks

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Oct 22, 2025
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How much has ice cost American tax payers.

The central, verifiable claim across recent analyses is that Congress approved an unprecedented package in mid‑2025 directing roughly toward immigration enforcement and detention, with major line item...

Dec 5, 2025
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how many lawsuits are against Donald trump right now

Counting “how many lawsuits are against Donald Trump right now” depends on definition: trackers of litigation targeting the Trump administration report figures ranging from about 186 suits by April 20...

Nov 19, 2025
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How many lawsuits has Donald Trump won compared to losses?

Available reporting shows multiple, inconsistent tallies of Donald Trump’s litigation outcomes depending on scope (administration regulatory cases, state suits, private civil suits, settlements). For ...

Dec 10, 2025

Did Trump ask for National Guard to be at the Capitol on K6

Available sources show no record that President Trump formally ordered 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol before or on January 6, 2021; multiple fact‑checks and official timelines...

Dec 15, 2025

What court cases challenged 2024 election results and how did judges rule on claims of fraud?

Multiple post‑2024 election lawsuits sought to overturn or question results, but courts largely rejected claims to invalidate outcomes or found insufficient evidence of fraud; for example, a New York ...

Nov 22, 2025

How many legal cases has the Trump administration lost

Available trackers and reporting show hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration in 2025 — estimates range from roughly 186 adjudicated-or-pending suits in some snapshots to...

Nov 21, 2025

Has trump broken the law in office as president?

Courts and legal trackers show numerous lawsuits challenging President Trump’s actions and several lower-court rulings limiting his policies — notably on tariffs and domestic deployments — but availab...

Nov 15, 2025

how many times has trump been taken to court

Counting how many times Donald Trump has “been taken to court” depends on what you include: his personal and business legal history runs into the thousands (USA Today/Wikipedia counts over 4,000 suits...

Nov 14, 2025

How many times has Joe Biden been sued as President of the United States?

Available reporting and trackers show hundreds of individual lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration by states, businesses, advocacy groups and officials — but there is no single, au...

Nov 20, 2025

Trump's breaking of the Constitution

Reporting and institutional reviews show numerous critics, legal groups, and congressional Democrats say President Trump’s actions since January 2025 have strained or violated constitutional norms — c...

Nov 24, 2025

How many civil lawsuits has Donald Trump been involved in total and what proportion were won, settled, or dismissed?

Available reporting shows widely differing tallies and no single authoritative total for “how many civil lawsuits Donald Trump has been involved in” or an agreed breakdown of outcomes; some sources ci...

Nov 22, 2025

Eight conflicts trump claims to have stopped

Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he “stopped” or “ended” six, seven or even eight wars since returning to the White House; reporting and fact‑checks find he did help secure several temporary ceasef...

Dec 1, 2025

What rules of engagement and international law govern use of force against survivors at sea?

International law draws a sharp line: killing shipwrecked survivors and persons hors de combat at sea is plainly forbidden under the law of armed conflict and longstanding maritime custom, and UN huma...

Nov 25, 2025

Which of Donald Trump's executive orders were blocked or struck down by federal courts and why?

Federal courts have put temporary or permanent blocks on multiple Trump administration executive actions in 2025 — including injunctions or stays against a passport sex-entry policy, parts of an elect...

Dec 19, 2025

is trump admin corrupt

Evidence compiled by multiple watchdog groups, scholars and news organizations portrays the Trump administrations — both 2017–2021 and the second term beginning in 2025 — as marked by repeated ethics ...

Nov 26, 2025

Has Trump violated the constitution?

Reporting and legal trackers show extensive allegations and court challenges that the Trump administration since January 2025 has taken actions described by critics as unconstitutional — including an ...

Nov 22, 2025

How many cases brought by the Trump administration were decided in its favor vs. against it?

Available trackers and news summaries disagree on both scope and counting rules, so there is no single, definitive tally in the provided sources: Forbes reports the administration “won” about 31% of 1...

Nov 27, 2025

How does the number of lawsuits against Biden compare to recent presidents like Trump and Obama?

Counting lawsuits against presidents depends on what you count. Ballotpedia reports 133 multistate suits were filed against the Biden administration through his full term (multistate = two or more sta...

Nov 14, 2025

What laws have been broken by Trump administration?

Multiple watchdogs, legal experts, advocacy groups and state officials say the Trump administration’s second-term actions have prompted numerous legal challenges and accusations that they have violate...

Nov 26, 2025

How many civil lawsuits has Donald Trump been a defendant in and what outcomes?

Reporting varies but the clearest figures in the provided sources point two ways: historic counts show Donald Trump has been named as a defendant in thousands of suits over decades (USA Today review c...