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Jun 25, 2025 ICE required members of Congress to give 72 hours’ notice before visiting detention facilities Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
The notice rule reduced real-time visibility into detention conditions and weakened oversight of a system already marked by secrecy and fear.
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- ICE restricts congressional access to detention facilities — ICE officials stated that members of Congress must provide at least 72 hours' notice before visiting detention facilities, despite federal law allowing unannounced inspections.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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Jun 23, 2025 Various litigants and courts filed or advanced additional cases challenging administration actions across labor, records, grants, immigration, civil service, and agency process Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
These filings and procedural rulings showed broad, ongoing judicial contestation over executive actions across many parts of the federal government.
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- Appeal filed — Thakur v. Trump (N.D. Cal.) 3:25-cv-04737 — Judge Rita Lin granted a preliminary injunction .
- Case update — North America's Building Trades Unions v. Department of Defense (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-01070 — Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction after DOD and GSA formally rescinded the policies at issue in this case, disavowed continued reliance on those policies, and instructed their
- Case update — President and Fellows of Harvard College v. US Department of Health and Human Services (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-11048 — State Attorneys General submitted an amicus brief in support of Defendants.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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