Continuously updated research publication
A sourced accountability archive tracking reported rights abuses, coercive removals, and attacks on democratic accountability since January 2025.
The project title is editorial shorthand, not a blanket legal conclusion. Critical labels mark the site’s assessment of acute rights and rule-of-law risk, and each entry distinguishes reported facts, active claims, official acts, and rulings where they exist.
Classification guide
Severity reflects the site’s editorial risk assessment and is updated when the sourcing or legal posture changes.
Chronology
Entries are ordered by incident date and summarized with the core legal and factual dispute in view.
A Maryland man was removed to El Salvador despite a prior immigration order barring his deportation there. The Supreme Court later required the government to facilitate his return, making the case a flashpoint for due-process and non-refoulement concerns.
The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to speed removals of Venezuelan nationals accused of ties to Tren de Aragua. Courts quickly intervened, and the policy became a major test of wartime powers, due process, and third-country detention transfers.
Trump removed at least 17 inspectors general across federal agencies in a single night without the notice to Congress that the governing statute generally requires. A later district-court ruling said the notice failure violated the statute while leaving reinstatement unresolved.
On his first day back in office, Trump granted sweeping clemency to January 6 defendants, issuing full pardons for most and commuting 14 remaining sentences, including for people convicted of assaulting police officers and leaders of groups convicted of seditious conspiracy.