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February 3, 2026

3 entries on this date.

Arizona Republican Duwayne Collier filed as a Green Party secretary of state candidate, misrepresenting his affiliation to split the Democratic vote

Duwayne Collier, a registered Republican and paid petition circulator for Uncle Sam Petitions — a firm that works almost exclusively for Republican candidates — filed a statement of interest to run for Arizona secretary of state as a Green Party candidate on February 3, 2026. The Arizona Green Party disavowed him as a GOP-planted "sham" candidate alongside a similar gubernatorial candidacy. Collier went on to pay more than $250,000 of his $296,000 in public Clean Elections funding to Bootstrap Campaigns, the same undisclosed Nevada shell company used by the gubernatorial candidate.

Judge Blackwell found ICE, DHS and DOJ routinely defied orders releasing Minnesota detainees; DOJ ended the testifying attorney's detail

On February 3, 2026, U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell found in open court in St. Paul, Minnesota that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department had routinely failed to comply with orders releasing immigration detainees, leaving people jailed for days or weeks after judges ordered them freed. Questioned about noncompliance in cases she was handling, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Le, who had been assigned 91 immigration cases in under a month, told Blackwell that "this job sucks" and that she lacked "the power or the voice" to fix a broken system. The U.S. Attorney's Office ended Le's detail the following day, and DHS publicly called her conduct "unprofessional and unbecoming."

Washington Post investigation revealed DHS subpoenaed Google to unmask a critic hours after his email to a DHS official

A Washington Post investigation published February 3, 2026, revealed that the Department of Homeland Security has used administrative subpoenas -- issued without a judge's or grand jury's order -- to identify private citizens who criticize the agency, centering on a Philadelphia-area retiree who emailed a DHS attorney urging leniency for an Afghan asylum seeker. Four hours after the email, DHS subpoenaed Google for the man's account information, and DHS agents later visited his home to question him about it. The ACLU moved to quash the subpoena, and DHS withdrew it in early February 2026.