Day 3

January 22, 2025

5 documented events

  1. Serious Rights Violation Foreign Policy & War

    Trump signs executive order initiating redesignation

    President Trump signs an executive order initiating the process to redesignate the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, reversing Biden's revocation.

    From: Houthi FTO Redesignation Chills Humanitarian Operations for 19.5 Million Yemenis

  2. Serious Rights Violation Military Overreach

    Military Deployments at US-Mexico Border in Violation of Posse Comitatus Act

    The Trump administration deployed over 10,000 active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border for immigration enforcement, including intelligence personnel and a 250-mile 'national defense area.' A federal judge ruled in September 2025 that the administration 'willfully' violated the Posse Comitatus Act through a systemic effort to use military troops for civilian law enforcement.

    From: Military Deployments at US-Mexico Border in Violation of Posse Comitatus Act

  3. Serious Rights Violation Federal Dismantlement

    Schedule F Reclassification: Mass Removal of Civil Service Protections

    On January 22, 2025, Trump issued an executive order reinstating 'Schedule F' (renamed Schedule Policy/Career), directing reclassification of approximately 50,000 federal employees into a new category stripped of civil service protections including appeal rights, whistleblower protections, and protection from political firing. OPM published the final rule on February 6, 2026. The rule describes existing civil service protections as 'unconstitutional overcorrections' and allows removal for 'subversion of presidential directives.' Over 30 unions and advocacy groups have filed or pledged lawsuits.

    From: Schedule F Reclassification: Mass Removal of Civil Service Protections

  4. Serious Rights Violation Deportation & Immigration

    Legal challenges begin

    Immigration advocacy organizations file initial legal challenges to the CBP One shutdown and accompanying asylum ban executive orders, arguing violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act and US obligations under the Refugee Convention.

    From: CBP One App Shutdown: 30,000 Asylum Appointments Cancelled, 270,000 Stranded

  5. Major Abuse of Power Civil Rights

    DOJ withdraws from EMTALA abortion enforcement

    The DOJ withdraws from lawsuits seeking to enforce EMTALA's requirement that hospitals provide stabilizing care including abortion in medical emergencies.

    From: Restrictions on Reproductive Rights and Comstock Act Revival