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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.
A federal audit found CMS’s own guidance let Medicare pay $380 million over six years for organs never transplanted into Medicare patients. Sixteen months after being told its rule conflicts with federal law, the agency still hasn’t said whether it will fix it.
A federal watchdog warned in 2024 that EPA couldn’t account for $836 million in school bus grants. Two years later, the agency’s own numbers show what came of it: a bankrupt manufacturer, thousands of undelivered buses, and a program its own administrator calls a disaster.
A federal judge concluded Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner and a top deputy may have committed perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy in a murder habeas case, referring both to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for criminal investigation.
A Colorado judge disqualified an entire district attorney’s office for egregious discovery violations after the previous DA was disbarred for identical misconduct. The pattern reveals systemic institutional failure.
The Trump administration’s assault on DOJ independence reveals a dangerous breakdown in rule of law. When antitrust enforcement becomes political leverage, democracy itself is at risk.
The3million has launched a legal challenge against the Home Office over its ‘granted in error’ policy that allows the department to retroactively strip EU Settlement Scheme status from individuals without providing them with a formal decision or right of appeal.
High Court rules Home Office systematically failed to protect vulnerable migrants in immigration detention. Rule 35 safeguards designed to prevent inhuman treatment were routinely ignored, exposing asylum seekers with mental illness to indefinite detention without proper review.