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NEW on our “Paper Trail” podcast: Under Trump 2.0, the White House has often ignored Congress to carry out its agenda.
Entire agencies, like USAID, have been gutted. ICE has grown explosively.
Behind it all is one man: Russell Vought.
Listen to our latest episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/who-is-russell-vought-trump-shadow-president?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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NEW: The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did.
We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration.
https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Immigrants #USPolitics #Trump #ICE #DHS #CivilRights
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security.
We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-travel-security-costs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #KenPaxton #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Security #Travel #Money #Ethics
NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense.
After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-kollitides-pentagon-contracts-alvarez-marsal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Pentagon #Defense #Government #USPolitics #Law #Ethics #PrivateEquity #Military
NEW: Since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott first declared an emergency at the border in 2021, he’s renewed or amended the proclamation at least 69 times.
The proclamation has greatly expanded his powers without going through the state Legislature.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-border-security-disaster-proclamation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #Border #Security #Governor #GregAbbott #USPolitics
NEW: For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges.
But after the state Supreme Court overruled a gerrymandering attempt by the GOP, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-plan-judge-selection-republican-attacks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Missouri #GOP #Republicans #Law #Courts #Legal #USPolitics
NEW on “Paper Trail”: A defense contractor CEO told the FBI that he had bribed politicians — and that Susan Collins was his most important patron. Then Trump shut down an elite FBI anti-corruption unit.
So we took it upon ourselves to investigate. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/susan-collins-bribery-allegations-fbi-martin-kao?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SusanCollins #FBI #Trump #Maine #Defense #Government #Corruption #USPolitics #Law
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
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Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NorthCarolina #Law #Justice #SupremeCourt #USPolitics #Christianity
NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.
Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DHS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Trump #USPolitics #Cybersecurity
NEW: In Texas, Ken Paxton successfully defended a near-total abortion ban before Roe v. Wade was struck down, and he blocked federal guidance for emergency abortion care.
His allies see an opening to further restrict abortion if his Senate bid is successful.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-texas-abortion-senate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #KenPaxton #Texas #Law #Senate #Election #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics
NEW: We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens have been detained by immigration agents.
Now House members are moving to make it easier for those detained to seek justice through the courts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-citizens-wrongfully-detained-ice-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Immigrants #ICE #DHS #USPolitics #Congress #Law
How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
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An FBI anti-corruption team launched an investigation into whether South Carolina’s most powerful members of Congress were involved in a bribery scheme, ProPublica found. After Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, the investigation went dark.
https://www.propublica.org/article/navatek-lindsey-graham-jim-clyburn-fbi-anti-corruption-bribery?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SouthCarolina #Defense #FBI #Government #Corruption #USPolitics