Palm Beach County paid a contractor for sheriff headquarters work up to 355 business days before commissioners approved it, and paid $223,243 in fees it could not document, an inspector general audit found.
A Treasury inspector general audit found IRS name searches of public figures went unflagged, 22 employees kept their jobs after browsing taxpayer records, and 276 victims were never told.
Britain’s ‘one in, one out’ pilot with France has closed. Official figures show 1,087 returns against about 28,000 small-boat arrivals, at roughly £56,000 each, and no published test of whether it deterred anyone.
A High Court test case on Britain’s France returns scheme turned on a Home Office caseworking entry nobody read. The government won the legal standard it wanted and lost the case anyway.
A federal judge vacated the Justice Department’s nationwide voter-roll program. The goal was lawful; the method was not. What the 78-page opinion found, what DOJ argues on appeal, and what remains unproven.
A Trump-appointed judge has blocked the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, finding almost nothing in the record to support its national security rationale. The larger question is what the administration is asking the courts to give up, and who would inherit that power next.
The Home Office can now offer foreign nationals with limited leave a choice between admitting a minor offence and leaving Britain, or facing prosecution. Its own impact assessment says the power has been used only about 130 times, and that few expect to accept it.
A High Court judge ordered the Ministry of Defence to pay indemnity costs after it repeatedly missed deadlines in the Afghan relocation test cases. The ruling decides nothing about the policy, but a good deal about whether the state keeps the rules it sets for others.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether schools may ban a political slogan as disguised vulgarity. Two Trump-appointed Sixth Circuit judges split on the answer. What the record shows, and what the denial does not mean.
A federal judge in Florida dismissed a noncitizen-voting prosecution because Congress, he held, lacked the power to write the statute. The ruling is narrow, contested and widely misdescribed. What it decides, and what it leaves open.
The Home Office says Britain’s modern slavery system is open to misuse and is legislating accordingly. Its own June 2026 statistics show record referrals, a rising backlog, and no published reasons for negative decisions in the latest release. The case for reform rests on evidence not yet on the page.
On October 1, a federal judge ordered the government to answer questions about prosecutors’ candor under penalty of perjury, while deferring a special prosecutor. The unresolved issue is constitutional: who may prosecute contempt when the executive branch is the target?