Last updated: July 16, 2026. This page lists the most egregious violations. See also additional constitutional violations.
| Date | Administration Action | Why does this violate the Constitution? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | Signed executive order ending birthright citizenship. | The Constitution explicitly states that all individuals born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and decades of legal precedent have affirmed birthright citizenship. | The administration pursued the order for 17 months before the Supreme Court struck it down in June 2026, holding 6–3 that children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporary-status parents are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. The order never took effect. |
| June 2025 | Teams of armed, masked federal agents conducted mass immigration sweeps (“roving patrols”) across Los Angeles — seizing roughly 2,800 people in a month at car washes, farms, bus stops, and parks — based on apparent ethnicity, speaking Spanish, location, and type of work, while denying detainees access to lawyers. | A federal court found a “mountain of evidence” that the stops violated the Fourth Amendment — the four factors used cannot constitute reasonable suspicion — and that denial of counsel violated the Fifth Amendment, and enjoined the practices, affirmed on appeal. | In September 2025, the Supreme Court stayed the injunction 6–3 without explanation, allowing the stops to resume during litigation; Justice Sotomayor’s dissent warned the Court was blessing seizures based on ethnicity. The lower courts’ Fourth Amendment findings were never overturned on the merits. |
| August 2025 | Repeatedly kept hand-picked prosecutors in office as U.S. attorneys past the 120-day interim limit through resign-and-reappoint schemes, evading Senate confirmation in New Jersey, California, Nevada, New York, and Virginia. | The Constitution requires Senate advice and consent for U.S. attorneys beyond a strict interim period. One judge ruled it “crystal clear” the government intended to act “unilaterally” to bypass confirmation; courts disqualified unlawfully serving U.S. attorneys in at least five states, and an appeals court affirmed. | After courts disqualified New Jersey’s Alina Habba, the Justice Department installed a trio of unconfirmed officials to run the office — which a judge also ruled unlawful in March 2026. An unlawfully appointed prosecutor’s indictments of the president’s critics were dismissed on the same grounds (see the Abuse of Power page). |
| September 2025 | During “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago, federal agents repeatedly used tear gas, riot weapons, chokeholds, and physical force against protesters, clergy, and journalists, then filed false reports about the incidents — in one case a use-of-force report generated with ChatGPT. | A federal judge found the agents’ force “shocks the conscience” (Fourth Amendment) and violated First Amendment speech, assembly, and religious-exercise rights, and that body-camera video repeatedly contradicted official accounts — the Border Patrol commander “outright lied,” admitting under oath he falsely claimed a rock hit him before tear-gassing a crowd. | An appeals court later stayed parts of the injunction as overbroad. A separate judge found that dozens of the operation’s warrantless arrests violated a federal consent decree. |
| September 2025 | Roughly 300 federal agents raided a 130-unit Chicago apartment building around 1 a.m. — rappelling from a Black Hawk helicopter, deploying flashbangs, breaking down doors without unit-specific warrants, and holding residents, including U.S. citizens and children, zip-tied for hours in their nightclothes. | The Fourth Amendment requires particularized warrants to enter homes; lawyers said the government lacked them, and 18 residents filed federal claims alleging unlawful arrest and brutalization. | Court records unsealed in February 2026 showed the raid’s stated gang justification was pretextual — the operative concern was squatters. No gang members were charged from the raid. |