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There is no verifiable, publicly available count of how many people who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are currently employed as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I...
ICE does not have a single, universally reported line in public documents that officers must always “step away” from moving vehicles, and reporting shows a split between general federal guidance that ...
No reporting in the provided sources publicly identifies any specific pardoned January 6 defendants as current federal law enforcement employees; available documents and articles raise the question an...
There is no publicly reported, documented evidence in the provided reporting that ICE or CBP have hired individuals who were previously convicted specifically for participating in a riot such as the J...
Public reporting attributes tens to hundreds of millions in federal and local security and travel costs to Donald Trump’s golf outings and related stays since 2017, with estimates varying by scope and...
The Constitution expressly limits the president’s clemency power to “Offences against the United States” and excludes cases of impeachment (Art. II, §2) — meaning federal, not state, crimes and not im...
Since enacting the National Emergencies Act (NEA) in 1976 to reclaim congressional oversight over long‑running presidential emergency powers, Congress has periodically revisited the law with proposals...
Publicly available reporting shows Secret Service spending tied to Mar‑a‑Lago varies by accounting method: federal procurement records list more than $1.4 million for “perimeter assets” between August...
There is intense and media scrutiny but no publicly released, verifiable roster showing that has hired individuals pardoned for participation in the ; lawmakers have demanded documents to determine wh...
Federal and DHS statements assert ICE has arrested “murderers, rapists, pedophiles and gang members” across the country and have named several cases tied to the Memphis area, including an individual w...
Congressional oversight, the DHS Office of Inspector General, internal ICE units (notably the Office of Professional Responsibility), and advocacy/reporting watchdogs form the principal mechanisms tha...
The allegations against Eric Trump centered chiefly on his eponymous Eric Trump Foundation’s annual charity golf events—promoted as raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital—and on how d...
No publicly available reporting reviewed here identifies a specific number of presidentially pardoned January 6 defendants who are currently employed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE);...
Legal and institutional responses to presidents’ incendiary statements most often come from Congress, executive-branch processes and public watchdogs rather than immediate criminal charges; recent exa...
Claims that “M Trump” (interpreted here as President Donald J. Trump) is acting illegally inside the United States are raised repeatedly by opponents and supported by court orders, state complaints, a...
Federal law and practice create multiple paths for local agencies and federal components to cover costs when the Secret Service protects the President or former President: historically federal agencie...
Multiple Trump directives in 2025 — including an executive order seeking to narrow the legal understanding of sex for federal documents, an order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, a suite of imm...