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TechdirtSep 22, 2026

Appeals Court Rejects ICE Detention Policy, Comparing It To WWII Japanese Internment

Ever since Trump's return to office, almost every federal law enforcement agency has been ordered to treat illegal immigration as their first priority. This is why the administration is gutting FEMA to direct more dollars to detention and removal efforts. And that's why ICE is now the administration's largest law enforcement budget line item. To...

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TechdirtSep 15, 2026

Trump’s DOJ Says ‘Become Ungovernable’ Is Antifa Evidence. Trump’s Convention Put It On The Wall.

"Become ungovernable" is a phrase that has traveled around the world and morphed in meaning over time, but in the last few years has basically become an internet culture joke meme, with vaguely anarchist seasoning. But, now, in the Trump administration, it has apparently taken on a Schrodinger-esque meaning as either... a slogan for libertarian-leaning...

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TechdirtSep 14, 2026

Reflecting Pool Contractors: Alleged ‘Vandalism’ Was Just Our Own Botched Repair Job

The truth continues to come out, and not via Truth Social. Everything former Olympian David Hearn might need to pursue a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the Trump DOJ has been leaking more steadily than the botched Lincoln Reflecting Pool repair job itself. This time, it's the contractor admitting its repair job didn't go as planned,...

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TechdirtSep 10, 2026

Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice

There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there's one thing it's most known for, it's the unwillingness to take a loss and move on. That's why the DOJ is still trying to imprison/jettison into a war-torn...

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TechdirtSep 9, 2026

DOJ Fired Prosecutor, Blocked Assault Charges Against ICE Officer Following Minneapolis Shooting

Let's start out with the obvious (and obviously heartbreaking): this is not related to the multiple times ICE officers have murdered people. Those officers still remain at large and the DOJ and DHS have shown absolutely zero interest in following up on those cases. In fact, when any local agency attempts to do so, they're...

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TechdirtSep 8, 2026

The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility

I am never asking the monkey's paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I've talked about the absolute necessity of strong fair use, and have been disappointed over and over again at how little the federal government has fought for fair use. For decades, the rare times when...

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Little Green FootballsSep 3, 2026

DHS Begins Blitz to Find Nonexistent Voter Fraud Before the Midterms

The first mail-in ballots will be sent out Friday amid an ongoing legal fight over how the USPS will handle them. The New York Times is also reporting that DHS is beginning a blitz to find elusive voter fraud before November. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the DOJ Mary McCord and New York Times Reporter Nick Corasaniti join Alicia Menendez to discuss the latest.

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TechdirtSep 3, 2026

DOJ Issues Memo Saying There’s Nothing Illegal About The Military Arresting Migrants

A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally declared expansive areas near US military bases to be "national defense areas." This meant that areas surrounding bases -- like (especially) Fort Bliss...

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TechdirtSep 1, 2026

FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals

As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don't know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE went on a hiring surge following the imposition of impossible arrest quotas and a few billion...

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TechdirtAug 25, 2026

ClownAss DOJ Reduced To Quoting James Comey’s Novel As Evidence In ‘8647’ Case

The first attempted revenge prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has gone nowhere. Whatever the DOJ didn't botch directly was undone by Trump's persistent refusal to adhere to the rules of political appointments. The second attempted prosecution of James Comey isn't going any better. The Trump DOJ willfully pretended an Instagram photo taken by...

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TechdirtAug 18, 2026

FOIA Documents Show Epstein Files Had Flag List Which Included The Term ‘POTUS’

MAGA, the GOP, and the Trump administration don't really care about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking. The MAGA GOP made a lot of noise during Biden's single term because they were sure the files would show a Pizzagate's-worth of Democratic political figures engaged in the ritual abuse of underage girls. Once Trump was...

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TechdirtAug 14, 2026

Trump Wants The DOJ To Go After Olympian David Hearn Again In Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case

This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trump's cronies/donors -- who were paid millions to do a job they'd never done before -- failed to bring the Lincoln Reflecting Pool up to spec by July 4th, preventing Trump from taking sole credit for everyone else's hard work while turning the nation's...

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TechdirtAug 12, 2026

Judiciary Committee Dems Open Investigation Into DOJ’s Reflecting Pool Revenge Prosecutions

The current president continues to self-destruct. Fortunately for us, he insists on doing this publicly. After handing a donor and an unproven company the massive job of redoing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in "American flag blue" in hopes of being able to use it to celebrate himself during America's 250th birthday, everything went tits...

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TechdirtAug 11, 2026

Minnesota Is Trying To Talk Texas Into Extraditing An Arrested ICE Officer To Face Assault Charges

Will anyone ever hold an ICE officer accountable for shooting or killing someone? Maybe, but it won't be anyone from this administration -- one that has actively blocked state investigators from following up on ICE shootings and even pulled FBI agents from ongoing investigations so ICE can forgive itself for its officers actions. While ICE...

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TechdirtAug 10, 2026

Trump Doubles Down On Conspiracy Theories After DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charges

We'll see how long US Attorney (and, of course, former Fox News personality) Jeanine Pirro gets to keep her job. I would guess the exit door is only inches away from hitting her ass since she refused to carry out Donald Trump's plan to punish Reflecting Pool visitors for highlighting the failures of his no-bid...

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TechdirtAug 5, 2026

Trump’s War On Journalists Also Includes Targeting A Freelance NYT Contributor

Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million "gift" plane from the Qatari government earlier this year. Trump claimed it was a coup for taxpayers and a boon for America, even as he made it clear this was all about him. According to Trump, no plane was more luxurious than this graft-y replacement for the...

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TechdirtAug 3, 2026

DOJ Dumps Reflecting Pool Charges, Admits It Was All The Fault Of Trump’s No-Bid Pool Guys; While Trump Sticks By His Vandalism Story

Hail to the Chief. Our country is being run by paranoid conspiracy theorist megalomaniac who openly wishes to kick-start America's first autocracy. Nothing that goes wrong is ever the president's fault. It's always the fault of officials with insufficient loyalty or the criminal acts of people out to get him. Trump decided the Lincoln Reflecting...

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TechdirtJul 31, 2026

Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department For “Unlawful,” “Unethical” And “Unseemly” Conduct

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Across the country, federal judges are calling out Department of Justice lawyers, questioning in unprecedented ways whether they can be trusted to tell the truth or uphold centuries-old legal norms. From Washington, D.C., to Rhode Island to Oregon, federal judges nominated...

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TechdirtJul 29, 2026

Judge: DOJ Undid Its Attempt To Bully Portland Police Because AG Harmeet Dhillon Tweeted Thru It

There are several layers of bullshit in operation here, so we'll walk through it all. But keep in mind the only reason this is all being exposed is because Trump administration officials feel they're more obligated to "own the libs" than actually do their damn jobs. Last October, "conservative influencer" Nick Sortor was arrested by...

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TechdirtJul 27, 2026

Protester Charged With Destroying Property After Giving CBP Agents His GrapheneOS ‘Duress’ Mode Passcode

Atlanta, Georgia's attempt to erect a law enforcement officer training center in Atlanta was met by months of concerted protests. As the months stretched into years (the center was announced in 2021 but did not complete construction until 2025), opposition efforts ranged from peaceful protests to heated exchanges during public comment sessions to attacks on...

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TechdirtJul 25, 2026

Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney One Hour After Appointment, Immediately Gets Sued

Stop me if you've heard this one: Federal judges in the Western District of Washington had unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to be the Justice Department’s top official there, filling a vacancy that the president has never addressed. But the Trump administration has largely defied attempts by federal judges to fill vacancies, leading to Mr. Rogoff’s...

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TechdirtJul 24, 2026

DOJ Withdraws NY Times Subpoenas After Judge Notices It Never Bothered To Follow The Rules For Subpoenaing Reporters

Just last week we had the story of the Trump DOJ issuing very questionable subpoenas of NY Times journalists while trying to track down who leaked information to those reporters regarding the potentially catastrophic security flaws of the "gift" 747 plane he received from Qatar. As we noted in that original post, this appeared to...

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