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On October 1, a federal judge ordered the government to answer questions about prosecutors’ candor under penalty of perjury, while deferring a special prosecutor. The unresolved issue is constitutional: who may prosecute contempt when the executive branch is the target?
For nine years HUD did not produce the improper-payment estimates federal law requires for its two largest rental-assistance programs. In September its inspector general did: at least $2.7 billion a year. HUD disputes part of the finding.
A High Court judge found the Home Office changed asylum accommodation protections for torture survivors without consulting the charities involved. Two months later it restored them, but only pending further consideration.
A High Court judge upheld the refusal of a couple’s asylum claim, yet found the Home Office defended their detention by citing family accommodation that had been closed since 2020. The Home Office conceded the separation was unlawful.
The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration credits real digital border gains, but finds the largest remaining benefit is the least mature, partly modelled, and without a clearly stated owner as the programme closes in March 2027.
On October 1, right-to-work checks in Britain extended to gig, subcontract and platform labour. A minister had demanded an end to account substitution in November 2023. The final guidance arrived on the day the law took effect, and the Home Office still cannot say how many people are working illegally.
A federal judge found that Donald Trump’s $10 billion suit against the IRS was brought for an improper purpose and lacked a genuine adversary. On September 29 the Eleventh Circuit declined to pause the sanctions. The record raises a question conservatives have long asked of others: what happens when the executive branch sits on both sides of the table?
On October 1 the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether federal law requires detaining long-resident immigrants without bond hearings. The government reversed a three-decade practice by memo and agency adjudication, and the lower courts have mostly refused to follow.
The Home Office reports its asylum decision backlog down 56 percent. Ministry of Justice tribunal data shows 90,341 asylum appeals now waiting, up from 33,227 in mid-2024. Crossings are falling too, and the France returns deal is ending. The headline numbers are real, but they measure only part of the system.
Minnesota’s federal judges shared a running email chain and case-ruling templates, then gave on-the-record interviews criticizing an ICE operation. The Justice Department’s new misconduct complaint already ran into this exact legal problem twice this year.
A DHS Inspector General audit found vetting errors in 40 percent of sampled Afghan evacuee case files — confirming, years later, warnings the agency’s own watchdogs first raised in 2022.
A federal prosecution proved the ACA enrollment fraud scheme. A senator’s letters to CMS went unanswered for a year. CBO confirmed the numbers nearly doubled. CMS acted only this September.