Nine anti-ICE protesters received terrorism sentences of at least 50 years each in Texas on Tuesday — the clearest test yet of whether the administration can reclassify political protest as domestic terror, and a warning to every organizer in America about the cost of showing up.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's curfew around Delaney Hall restricts protesters but imposes nothing on the facility where detainees have alleged beatings and pepper spray retaliation — the conditions that brought demonstrators there in the first place.
A federal jury convicted three ICE protesters — including a U.S. Army veteran — of felony conspiracy for a 2025 demonstration in Spokane. Legal experts say the prosecution isn't about these three defendants. It's about making organized dissent too expensive to sustain.
Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail for Facebook memes about Charlie Kirk. The government settled for $835,000 rather than defend that arrest in court — which is the clearest possible signal of what the government knew it had done.
The FBI reviewed an anonymous tip accusing Mahmoud Khalil of calling for violence — and closed the probe within days, finding it did not warrant investigation. ICE arrested him two days later. The administration kept calling him a threat.
A broken federal database was supposed to tell families where detained immigrants are held. Thirty-six lawmakers say it has become a mechanism for making people disappear — and they want to know if that's by design.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
Datos internos revisados por Reuters muestran que la TSA compartió 31,000 registros de viajeros con ICE, produciendo más de 800 arrestos — sin divulgación pública, sin mandato del Congreso y sin notificar a las personas cuyos datos fueron compartidos.
Internal agency data reviewed by Reuters shows the TSA shared 31,000 traveler records with ICE, producing 800+ arrests — with no public disclosure, no congressional mandate, and no notification to the people whose data was shared.
A court ruled that police officers who sued Afroman for mocking their failed drug raid have no grounds to silence him — a crucial First Amendment victory as law enforcement increasingly uses civil suits to punish critics.