Systematic actions that undermine fundamental constitutional or international legal protections at the structural level. Includes defiance of binding court orders, obstruction of international accountability mechanisms, mass violations of due process rights, and conduct that, while not yet meeting the threshold for international crimes, erodes the legal infrastructure that prevents them.
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Updated March 27, 2026Federal Dismantlement
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernReported record
DOGE fired 350 NNSA nuclear weapons workers, including warhead assemblers at Pantex and radioactive waste managers at Savannah River, as part of a 2,000-person Department of Energy purge. Most firings …
On February 13, 2025, approximately 350 NNSA employees were abruptly terminated as part of a DOGE purge across the Department of Energy …
The Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas — where nuclear warheads are assembled and disassembled — absorbed about 30% of the cuts. Fired …
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Updated March 26, 2026Foreign Policy & War
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty ends over five decades of binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. No replacement is under negotiation. The loss of …
New START expired on February 5, 2026, ending the last legally binding limits on US and Russian nuclear arsenals — 1,550 deployed strategic …
This marks the first time since the early 1970s that there are no binding nuclear arms control agreements between the two nations that …
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Updated March 26, 2026Extrajudicial Killing
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernReported record
An ICE agent shot and killed an American woman during an immigration raid in Minneapolis. Video evidence contradicted the government's claim of self-defense. The administration used the killing to …
Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old US citizen and mother of three, was shot three times and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on …
Video footage from the ICE agent's own phone shows Good sitting in her car, looking out the window, smiling and saying 'That's OK dude, I'm …
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Updated March 26, 2026Corruption & Self-Dealing
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
The administration attempted a mass deportation of unaccompanied minor children in the middle of the night during a holiday weekend, circumventing legal protections that require children to appear …
On August 31, 2025 (Labor Day weekend), 76 unaccompanied Guatemalan children in US government custody were roused from their beds around …
HHS began contacting shelter care providers around 10:00 PM Central time on August 30, ordering them to prepare children for immediate …
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Updated March 26, 2026Foreign Policy & War
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
The combined effect of freezing Afghanistan's sovereign assets and terminating all US humanitarian aid has created a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in which millions face starvation. UN officials …
The United States and European nations froze nearly $9.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, …
In 2025, the Trump administration terminated all remaining US humanitarian aid to Afghanistan — $561.8 million — ordering an immediate …
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Updated March 26, 2026Corruption & Self-Dealing
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingJudicial finding
DOGE associates including Tom Krause (Broadcom executive) and Marko Elez (25-year-old with racist posts) accessed Treasury's $6 trillion payment system. Elez was mistakenly given write access to …
DOGE associates were granted access to the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which processes over $6 trillion in annual payments …
Tom Krause, former Broadcom CFO and current CEO of Cloud Service Group, was made an unpaid 'senior advisor for technology and modernization' …
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingActive litigation
An ICE directive and BIA precedential decision eliminated bond hearings for millions of immigrants, creating a system of indefinite detention without judicial review. 71.7% of the 57,861 ICE detainees …
On July 8, 2025, Acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons issued a memo declaring that immigrants who entered without inspection are no longer …
On September 5, 2025, the BIA ruled in Matter of Yajure Hurtado that immigration judges lack authority to conduct bond hearings for anyone …
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation to Torture
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
46 deaths in ICE custody since January 2025 mark a two-decade high. ICE's October 2025 halt of medical care payments left detainees without access to health services as the detention population …
46 people have died in ICE custody or detention facilities since January 2025 — a two-decade high, with 2025 seeing the highest death rate …
ICE halted payments to medical care contractors in October 2025 after the VA terminated a longstanding reimbursement agreement, leaving …
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
ICE deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women in 13 months and recorded 16 miscarriages in detention. Women were shackled while miscarrying, denied prenatal care, and subjected to invasive …
363 pregnant, postpartum, and nursing immigrants were deported between January 1, 2025 and February 16, 2026.
16 miscarriages were recorded in ICE custody by late September 2025.
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Updated March 10, 2026Extrajudicial Killing
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernReported record
A second American citizen killed by federal agents during Minneapolis immigration enforcement protests. The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti — both unarmed U.S. citizens — during a single …
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was killed by federal agents on January 24, 2026, during protests in Minneapolis over the …
Pretti was the second U.S. citizen killed by federal agents during the Minneapolis immigration enforcement operation within a 17-day period.
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Updated February 20, 2026Deportation to Torture
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
The US secretly deported 17 people from 9 African countries to Cameroon under a covert agreement. Deportees were immediately beaten by gendarmes, arbitrarily detained, and subjected to torture. …
Under a secret agreement, the US deported 17 people from 9 African countries (Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra …
Deportees included asylum seekers with court-ordered protections against deportation and at least one stateless person.
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Updated February 2, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingJudicial finding
The US deported Haitians to a country the FAA banned US airlines from landing in due to gang gunfire, where 90% of the capital is under gang control and 1.4 million are displaced. DHS terminated TPS …
90% of Port-au-Prince is under gang control as of July 2025 according to the United Nations.
The FAA banned US airlines from landing at Port-au-Prince airport after deportation planes came under gang gunfire; flights were rerouted to …
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Updated November 10, 2025Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
10,500+ people subjected to solitary confinement in immigration detention over 14 months, with usage surging under the Trump administration. Nearly 75% of placements exceeded the UN's 15-day torture …
Over 10,500 people were placed in solitary confinement in immigration detention centers between April 2024 and May 2025.
The monthly rate of solitary confinement use under the second Trump administration was twice the rate from 2018-2023 and more than six times …
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Updated September 3, 2025Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingActive litigation
The administration invoked a rarely used 1798 wartime statute to justify accelerated removals of Venezuelan nationals, including transfers into El Salvador's detention system, prompting immediate …
The proclamation treated Tren de Aragua activity as an 'invasion' or 'predatory incursion' under the Alien Enemies Act.
The government used the proclamation to argue for removals with sharply reduced individualized process.
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Updated June 6, 2025Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingActive litigation
Federal officials removed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador despite a preexisting withholding order barring that destination, then spent weeks litigating what it meant to 'facilitate' his return …
An immigration judge had already barred Abrego Garcia's removal to El Salvador.
Public reporting said he was transferred into El Salvador's CECOT prison system.