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on February 13, 2024, advancing two articles accusing him of willful refusal to enforce immigration law and breaching the public trust; the narrowly divided vote was 214–213 and followed a year‑long R...
is vanishingly rare in history: the post-Civil War case of in 1876 is the canonical example, and the House’s 2024 impeachment of reopened a long-dormant tool of whose practical outcome—Senate acquitta...
The largest single coordinated in is widely identified as the December 2006 “Swift” raids at six that resulted in about 1,300 arrests and took place during the . Other major operations include the Aug...
Two distinct threads in American history answer whether the Senate can try cabinet officials who have already left office: the 1876 impeachment and trial of Secretary of War William Belknap, where the...
The three administrations framed around competing priorities: set a hierarchical “public‑safety first” framework focused on serious criminals and national‑security risks (Morton/Johnson memos), dramat...
Recent policy changes under both the Biden and Trump administrations have materially shifted how federal authorities distinguish and prioritize (administrative removals, detainers, and civil warrants)...
The Biden-era DHS memoranda of 2021–2022 reoriented enforcement toward case-by-case prioritization and prosecutorial discretion, instituting a 100‑day pause on many removals and consolidating guidance...
The question asks for annual counts of "removals and returns" under the Biden administration for 2021–2025; the federal statistics distinguish between ICE removals (formal removals executed by ICE) an...
Public records show multiple congressional subpoenas seeking documents from Gov. Tim Walz and his administration over the Feeding Our Future pandemic fraud; House Education and the Workforce Chair Rep...
Multiple Republican figures — including and a group of GOP House members, , and several House Republicans such as and — have alleged that , have released prisoners who then traveled to ; those claims ...
Since 2017, enforcement priorities were driven first by the Trump administration’s February 20, 2017 DHS memorandum (implementing Executive Order 13768) that broadly narrowed prosecutorial discretion ...
A secretary of defense can be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives by the same constitutional mechanism that applies to other “civil officers”: the House approves articles of impeachment by ...
President Biden’s policy decisions were guided by a blend of traditional cabinet secretaries—who ran agencies and executed policy—and a tight circle of White House senior staff and advisors who coordi...
ICE was created in 2003 and its budget rose from about $3.51 billion in 2003 to roughly $9.99 billion in 2024, reflecting growing federal investment in interior enforcement . Enforcement priorities ha...
Under Alejandro Mayorkas in 2021, DHS issued new enforcement guidance that reoriented priorities toward threats to national security, public safety, and border security and emphasized prosecutorial di...