The backlog of immigration cases is now in the millions.
Yet the Trump admin is firing experienced immigration judges and replacing them with military lawyers.
We need to know if these lawyers are prepared for this role, so we FOIAed their trainings.
Our weekly newsletter keeps you up-to-date on the fight to hold the government accountable for its actions.
This week, we sued for info about how DOJ is sharing Americans’ personal info with ICE.
Read and subscribe:
americanoversight.org/newsletter/
We’re asking for the communications of top Treasury and FinCEN officials containing key terms related to the Somali community and the Trump administration’s investigation into it.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
FinCEN, a part of Treasury, was reportedly told to target the Minneapolis Somali community. One Trump ally noted “Trump needs something for 2026 on Somalia.”
That’s not how legitimate investigations work.
We sent FOIAs for instructions given to FinCEN.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Our democracy depends on all Americans having equal access to vote, but the SAVE America Act would make it more difficult for millions to cast their ballots.
We need to know more about Trump’s support of these tactics, and about whose votes they suppress.
americanoversight.org/topic/voting...
We've been investigating Trump’s efforts to reshape US elections.
We uncovered details about the Trump admin’s national citizenship data system, which it wants states to use to remove people from their voter rolls, even though it is prone to error.
americanoversight.org/demanding-an...
Trump wants Congress to pass major voting restrictions he said would “guarantee the midterms.”
The “SAVE America Act” would ban nearly all mail-in voting, require voters to prove their citizenship, and impose other barriers to participate in US elections.
www.npr.org/2026/03/08/g...
Trump’s DOJ subpoenaed records related to the Arizona Senate’s review of the 2020 election. The FBI now has the docs.
We obtained tens of thousands of pages of related records, and the findings are clear:
AZ's election review was a partisan sham. americanoversight.org/investigatio...
Ed Martin led Trump's attacks on his perceived political enemies.
The DC Bar filed ethics charges against Martin after he threatened Georgetown’s Law Center over its DEI policies.
He tried 3 times to circumvent the DC Bar to avoid accountability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The Trump admin is collecting voter data, including drivers’ licenses and Social Security info, and sharing it with immigration enforcement.
We’re suing DOJ and ICE to find out more.
Americans deserve to know how their data is being used.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...
ICE didn’t publicly acknowledge its fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez until nearly a year later.
Now, body camera footage appears to contradict ICE’s account of the incident.
DHS must answer for its culture of secrecy and its lack of accountability.
americanoversight.org/newly-releas...
The other shoe just dropped in the fight over Trump's tariffs. www.businessinsider.com/florsheim-tr...
Cyber Ninjas — the contractor hired to conduct the review — and other affiliates played a significant role in efforts to undermine elections in other states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
www.americanoversight.org/american-ove...
Trump allies, like Rudy Giuliani and Patrick Byrne, as well as election-denying conspiracy theorists were deeply involved in coordinating, funding, or working on the Arizona Senate’s partisan audit.
www.americanoversight.org/in-the-docum...
The review was closely connected to the multi-state plot to overturn the election results by submitting fake electoral certificates to Congress.
Some of those false electors were even employed as “audit” workers.
www.americanoversight.org/in-the-docum...
The people behind the review wanted to cast doubt on the 2020 election results and tried to use the audit to do that. Despite their best efforts, the audit didn’t uncover voter fraud—but it did show how coordinated the effort to undermine our elections is.
www.americanoversight.org/arizonas-sha...
Trump’s DOJ subpoenaed records related to the Arizona Senate’s review of the 2020 election. The FBI now has the docs.
We obtained tens of thousands of pages of related records, and the findings are clear:
AZ's election review was a partisan sham.
americanoversight.org/investigatio...
“When voter rolls are cross-checked against immigration databases that are not designed to determine voting eligibility, errors are inevitable — and eligible voters can be wrongly flagged or removed,” said our Executive Director Chioma Chukwu.
americanoversight.org/investigatio...
DOJ ‘s actions raise serious concerns about voter suppression ahead of the 2026 elections.
Those concerns are heightened by a push to aggregate sensitive personal data into a searchable national system that could be repurposed for immigration enforcement.
NEW LAWSUIT: We’re suing DOJ and ICE for records on DOJ’s collection of sensitive voter data from states and how that info is being accessed or used by ICE.
Americans deserve to know how their data is being used, and if their rights are at risk.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...
Trump’s tariffs raised the cost of groceries, toys, and diapers. Now, Trump’s war in Iran is raising the cost of gas.
We’re tracking how Trump’s economic policies are hurting everyday Americans — and who they’re benefitting.
americanoversight.org/investigatio...
The body camera footage of Ruben Ray Martinez’s death appears to conflict with ICE’s official account.
This is part of a pattern for ICE — one that will take real policy to change to fix, no matter who is leading the department.
americanoversight.org/newly-releas...
Noem may be leaving DHS, but the agency’s accountability crisis remains.
In this week’s newsletter, we break down Noem’s tenure of secrecy and brutality at DHS — and what needs to happen next
Read and subscribe:
americanoversight.org/newsletter/
Kristi Noem secretly reinstated policies that require members of Congress to jump through hoops to visit ICE detention facilities.
For the third time, the court has blocked Noem’s policy and reinstated unannounced congressional oversight visits.
americanoversight.org/court-orders...
Every week, we compile the biggest stories in government transparency – from exposing ICE’s secrecy to explaining who Trump’s economic policies are really serving – and share how we’re fighting for accountability in our newsletter.
Read and subscribe:
americanoversight.org/newsletter/
Unfortunately, we were right. Federal officials cut childhood vaccine recommendations for RSV, Hepatitis A and B, meningitis, and more.
We requested all reports, data, and presentations used to justify these cuts.
In December, we sent HHS a letter warning that RFK Jr.’s initial overhaul violated the law, which requires that the panel be fairly balanced in terms of points of view.
Our letter warned that the panel could issue recommendations harmful to public health. americanoversight.org/as-vaccine-p...
First, RFK Jr. replaced members of HHS’s vaccine advisory panel with vaccine skeptics.
Then, he expanded the panel in January to add two more vaccine critics.
Last week, he added two more people to the panel — and at least one has criticized vaccines.
www.statnews.com/2026/02/27/t...
As federal agents swarm our communities and terrorize immigrants, we need to know how they’re being told to treat people.
To find out, we sued CBP this week for records related to its use of force and training of agents.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...
Last week, Kash Patel fired FBI agents involved in investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents.
It turns out those agents also investigate threats from Iran.
Trump and Patel’s personal vendettas shouldn’t jeopardize our national security.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...
