Justice

When plainclothes immigration agents tackled Erik Zepeda on a California street corner, they broke his wrist in three places before dumping him back on the sidewalk. Federal officials denied his injuries and claimed the disabled high school student assumed a fighting stance, but local surveillance footage and hospital records reveal an agency operating without restraint.

The Justice Department announced a $315 million settlement with CVS Pharmacy Inc. for twelve years of illegal opioid dispensing and health care billing fraud. For a health care conglomerate grossing over $350 billion annually, the civil penalty operates as a negligible operating fee that secures total executive immunity. Once again, federal regulators treat the industrial peddling of narcotics as a routine accounting settlement.

Homeland Security agents seized personal electronics and files from Representative Ilhan Omar under a warrant signed three weeks before the midterm election. Court records and defense filings reveal investigators bypassed binding judicial safeguards and longstanding departmental rules to pursue decades-old immigration paperwork.

An investigation discloses that three-quarters of career attorneys have fled the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon. From abandoned police decrees to voter monitoring, the federal apparatus designed to restrain state violence is being turned against the communities it was built to protect.

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a staggering seventy-thousand-dollar fee on universities for recommending international graduates for post-study work authorization. By transforming campus foreign student advisers into high-stakes toll collectors, the agency seeks to price immigrant talent out of the country through raw administrative extortion. What began as routine paperwork has become an existential ransom that threatens the foundations of higher education.

Eleven asylum-seekers at a private Texas prison have launched a hunger strike with an unprecedented demand: transfer out of the federal Fifth Circuit. Their fast exposes how the geography of federal appeals courts has created a zone where constitutional due process no longer functions.