Tracking every rollback, reversal, and overreach — and the path back to the America we know.
President Trump signed a proclamation exempting 20 polluting facilities from Biden-era regulations designed to restrict toxic chemical emissions. The exemption shields industrial plants from rules meant to reduce cancer cases within 31 miles of affected facilities. Communities near these plants lose federal health protections against air pollution and carcinogenic substances.
The Trump administration is deploying the Justice Department, FBI investigations, and an executive order to restrict voting by mail and change voting rules nationwide. Election denialists have been installed in key positions across federal agencies to implement these measures. The actions directly restrict ballot access for millions of American voters based on the president's false claims about 2020 election fraud.
The Trump administration reversed protections for endangered species' critical habitats, prompting a lawsuit from nine major environmental groups. The rollback eliminates federal safeguards for ecosystems essential to species survival. Wildlife populations and the public face diminished environmental protections and increased extinction risk.
A three-judge federal appeals panel in Michigan rejected the Trump Department of Justice's effort to compel states to provide detailed voting records and voter roll data to identify allegedly ineligible voters. The ruling blocked a DOJ initiative that voting rights advocates argued would create a nationwide voter suppression tool by enabling mass challenges to voter registrations based on selective data analysis.
The Trump EPA issued draft guidance criticizing a Biden-era risk assessment documenting cancer and health hazards from applying PFAS-contaminated sludge to farmland. The action reverses scientific findings on forever chemical contamination of agricultural land and drinking water supplies. American farmers and rural communities face renewed exposure to persistent toxins without federal health protection standards.
The Supreme Court affirmed birthright citizenship protections, striking down Trump administration efforts to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrant parents. The 6-3 decision upheld the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship guarantee. The ruling provides temporary relief to immigration advocates but occurs amid escalating Trump policies targeting citizenship revocation and expedited deportations.
The Trump administration approved a land exchange giving SpaceX over 700 acres of protected wildlife refuge in Texas near its Boca Chica rocket facility. Environmental groups sued to block the transfer, arguing it would worsen ecological damage to Gulf coast habitat already stressed by SpaceX operations. The action prioritizes commercial space industry expansion over coastal ecosystem protection.
President Trump successfully pressured Colorado's Democratic governor into commuting the prison sentence of Tina Peters, a former elections clerk convicted of participating in election conspiracy schemes. Peters, who promoted Trump's false 2020 election fraud claims, was released after serving less than one quarter of her nine-year sentence. The commutation rewards a Trump loyalist convicted of undermining election integrity and demonstrates executive clemency being deployed to protect allies who advanced election disinformation.
The Supreme Court struck down a century-old precedent protecting independent agency officials from at-will removal by the president, allowing Trump to fire a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member. The ruling dramatically expands executive power over the federal bureaucracy and eliminates longstanding protections designed to insulate agencies from partisan political influence. Millions of Americans relying on independent agency enforcement face reduced regulatory protections.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Mullin v. Doe upheld the Trump administration's authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 1.3 million immigrants, eliminating legal protections for individuals from designated countries. The decision removes humanitarian safeguards and expands executive power to revoke immigration status unilaterally. The ruling exposes hundreds of thousands of long-term U.S. residents to deportation to countries the government itself previously deemed unsafe.