In re: United States Federal Courts

Federal Litigation Index

Notable active cases involving the federal government

Curated case list · Linked cases carry live docket data
Discovery tool

Connection Map

Every node is a name pulled from case captions or ledger tags. A line means two names appear together in the same case or the same ledger entry — nothing here was drawn in by hand. Click a node to pinpoint it, see what it connects to, and jump straight to every paragraph in our reporting that names it.

Node size = number of connections. Red nodes came from your keyword checklist. Every dot connects to something — names with no connections, and topic tags appearing in only one record, are not drawn. Zoom out for the busiest names only; zoom in and more names appear. Click a node to isolate it, click empty space to clear. Drag background to pan, drag a node to reposition it.
Discovery tool

Cross-Reference Index

Type a name to find it. Every name is pulled mechanically from case captions, ledger entries and the article corpus — nobody has decided in advance what connects to what. The number is how many records are on file. Selecting a name filters the case list, the ledger and the map to it at once.

Keyword & Name Checklist

Paste a list of names or terms (one per line, or comma-separated). Each gets checked against every case and ledger entry — this tells you what's actually there and what isn't, rather than relying on memory of what you've already looked up.

The main event

Since January 6th: An Unprecedented Arrangement

What's tracked below is what's actually new: the specific rulings, appointments, and dismantlements that followed January 6th, across this president's first and second terms — escalating, cross-referenced, and click-through to the full record. The legal theory behind it is decades old; what's happened with it since Jan. 6 is not. (The 90-year legal backstory is below, collapsed, for anyone who wants the deeper context — it's background, not the headline.)

Background: the 40-year legal theory this builds on
Companion record

Accountability Ledger — Ethics, Oversight & Enforcement

Sourced entries on judicial independence, DOJ enforcement posture, gifts/pardons, and oversight capacity — tracked separately from the litigation index above because these are actions and disclosures, not lawsuits. To see everything tagged to one person, select them in the Cross-Reference Index above; this list filters to match.

Every entry links to primary or mainstream reporting — nothing here is asserted without a source. Entries appearing near each other in time are not thereby proven connected; where a link between two entries is itself contested (e.g. whether a pardon's timing reflects a quid pro quo), the summary says so explicitly rather than implying it. This ledger is not legal advice and does not allege criminal conduct unless a court has found it.

Outside sources, kept outside

Live Trackers Maintained by Others

These are run and updated by other teams, not by this site. Rather than re-hosting their work (and going stale the moment they update), we link straight to them.

Litigation Trackers
Just Security / NYU · Lawfare
Two independently maintained running counts of lawsuits challenging federal executive actions. Just Security counts 750+ cases; Lawfare uses a narrower method, treating a case and its appeals as one matter.
justsecurity.org →
lawfaremedia.org →
Every Pardon and Commutation, 2017–2026
Jackie Singh
The most complete running record of clemency grants across both terms, cross-checked against DOJ and White House records.
pardons.hackingbutlegal.com →
Clemency Grants, Official Record
DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney
The primary source: the government's own list of every pardon and commutation this administration has granted.
justice.gov →
RECAP / Docket Search
CourtListener (Free Law Project)
Search any federal docket directly — the same free PACER mirror this site's own case data is pulled from.
courtlistener.com →
EpsteinExposed
Independent (data engineer, pseud. "Eric Keller")
A relationship database built directly from the released files, court records, and FBI disclosures — 2.15M+ documents indexed, ~1,500 named individuals cross-referenced. This already does, at Epstein-network scale, what our Connection Map does for this site's own data.
epsteinexposed.com →
Jmail
Riley Walz & Luke Igel
A browsable archive of the DOJ- and House Oversight-released Epstein files — 1.4M+ documents, searchable in a familiar inbox-style interface.
jmail.world →
DOJ Epstein Library
U.S. Department of Justice
The primary source: official case dockets, disclosure files, and Epstein Files Transparency Act releases, straight from the government.
justice.gov/epstein →
Federal Workforce Litigation Tracker
Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network
Narrower than the general trackers and deeper: only cases affecting federal employees, but each entry carries the docket number, a dated procedural history, and a direct link to the docket itself. The best running record of the RIF, collective-bargaining and DOGE data-access litigation. Organised by AFGE, AFL-CIO and Democracy Forward; they say plainly that the list is not comprehensive and point to Just Security for the full picture.
workerslegaldefense.org →
Fix the Court
Independent SCOTUS ethics watchdog
Actively tracks justices' financial disclosures, stock holdings and recusals, and public appearances in real time — 263 events logged in 2025 alone. Publishes an annual audit of which ethics complaints went anywhere and which didn't.
fixthecourt.com →