March 9, 2026 — Timeline — Standing Record

Mar 9

ICE re-detained Baltimore man in defiance of federal release order, moved him toward deportation to Eswatini

On March 9, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement re-detained Ibrahim Mohammed, a Baltimore-area Ethiopian man, roughly five weeks after a federal judge in Louisiana had ordered his release and found ICE's prior detention of him unconstitutional. ICE served Mohammed a Notice of Revocation of Release on March 10 and moved him toward the airport for removal to Eswatini, a country he had never been to, before U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued an emergency five-day restraining order blocking his deportation. DeGravelles found no evidence Mohammed had been given the process his own order required before either the re-detention or the planned third-country removal.

Mar 9

FBI obtains Arizona Senate's 2020 Maricopa election audit records via grand-jury subpoena

In early March 2026 the FBI served the Arizona Senate a federal grand-jury subpoena for digital records from the chamber's discredited 2021 "audit" of Maricopa County's 2020 presidential election; Senate President Warren Petersen, a Republican, disclosed on March 9 that he had received and complied with it. The 2021 review — run by the Trump-allied firm Cyber Ninjas — had itself confirmed that Joe Biden won the county. State election officials condemned the subpoena as part of a federal campaign to relitigate an election that President Trump lost.

Mar 9

DOJ dropped Ticketmaster breakup demand, settled Live Nation antitrust case mid-trial; Trump had personally called CEO Rapino before deal

On March 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice reached a surprise mid-trial settlement with Live Nation Entertainment, abandoning its demand for Ticketmaster's divestiture and accepting structural remedies that included a fee cap and a $280 million fund — far short of the breakup the Biden-era DOJ had sought. The settlement was announced while the antitrust trial was underway in New York and blindsided the judge and the DOJ's own trial team. A court filing disclosed June 24, 2026 documented that President Trump had personally spoken with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino before the settlement was reached, and that Live Nation had hired Trump allies during the same period.

Mar 9

Federal judge found ICE, Border Patrol made warrantless, race-based stops of Somali, Latino Minnesotans

U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud ruled on March 9, 2026 that ICE and Border Patrol agents violated the Fourth Amendment by stopping and detaining Somali and Latino Minnesotans based solely on race or ethnicity during a January-February 2026 immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities. Of 33 witnesses examined in an ACLU class-action suit, Tostrud found 23 were subjected to stops lacking reasonable suspicion, and 17 were stopped based solely on race or ethnicity; he denied a preliminary injunction and class certification, citing the surge's wind-down.

Mar 9

ICE and CoreCivic detained trans asylum seeker Karla Saenz in Eloy's men's unit, denied her hormone care, and held her in solitary

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Karla Saenz, a 26-year-old transgender asylum seeker and Trans Queer Pueblo organizer, during a March 9, 2026 check-in at USCIS offices in Phoenix, and held her for 44 days at CoreCivic's Eloy Detention Center in Arizona. She said she was held in solitary confinement for five days, denied hormone treatment and chronic-illness medication for weeks, housed in the facility's men's unit and misgendered by staff, and pressured more than ten times to sign a voluntary-departure form before a federal judge ordered her release on April 21. ICE disputed her account, calling the mistreatment allegations "entirely false."

Mar 9

Wyoming enacted a 2026 budget footnote barring public funds, including Medicaid, from gender-affirming care

On March 9, 2026, Wyoming enacted Senate File 0001, its 2026 biennial general-government appropriations act, which Gov. Mark Gordon signed after line-item vetoing roughly two dozen other items and footnotes. A Department of Health footnote (Section 048, Footnote 1) bars the department from expending any general, federal, or other funds under its control to pay for "an elective abortion or a gender transition procedure," or for facilities, equipment, or training used to carry them out, through June 30, 2028. Because the department administers Wyoming Medicaid, the footnote cuts off public coverage of gender-affirming care for transgender residents.