The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for August 7, 2026. We recorded 1 event from August 6, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 30 more from earlier dates — 142 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 1536. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

Trump signed two new executive orders again restricting birthright citizenship after Supreme Court struck down his original order

Event: August 6, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C. Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Executive overreach, Discriminatory policy

On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed two executive orders again seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara (June 30, 2026) that his original January 2025 order denying citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants was unconstitutional. The first order lists categories of U.S.-born children -- including those of "alien enemies," foreign government lobbyists, and members of terrorist organizations -- that it deems ineligible for citizenship, while the second delegates authority to the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to deny visas to and take enforcement action against travelers found to be engaged in "birth tourism."

People & Organizations: - Donald Trump (President) - U.S. Department of State - U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/08/06/federal-executive-overreach-c839f10a/ Primary source: Ending Birth Tourism

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we archived yesterday. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• July 12, 2023 — Polk County Attorney Greg Widseth's office misstated drug-conspiracy law to jury in fentanyl trial
• September 28, 2025 — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed GOP-drawn congressional map targeting Rep. Cleaver's Kansas City seat
• October 7, 2025 — FBI Director Patel fired three career agents who worked on Jack Smith's 2020-election investigation, citing no cause
• November 22, 2025 — Nevada prison guards beat inmate Malik Avila during cell extraction, causing fatal brain injury; coroner ruled death natural
• December 11, 2025 — DOJ sued Colorado to compel release of unredacted, sensitive voter roll data
• December 26, 2025 — Coast Guard sole-sourced $2.39 billion in Arctic icebreaker contracts to Bollinger and Rauma without competitive bidding
• January 6, 2026 — Deputy Defense Secretary Feinberg amended his ethics agreement to keep receiving Cerberus services indefinitely
• February 10, 2026 — Coast Guard sole-sourced $957 million Arctic icebreaker contract to Davie Defense without competitive bidding
• February 27, 2026 — ICE detained Alberto Gutierrez Reyes, who died at Adelanto facility after repeated denied requests for medical care
• March 5, 2026 — ICE and DHS failed to return property to Minnesota immigrants ordered released, prompting contempt threat
• March 5, 2026 — ICE and CoreCivic held disabled detainee in unsanitary conditions at Stewart Detention Center, forcing him to crawl through mold and feces to shower
• March 6, 2026 — Loudermilk and Jordan referred Jan. 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson to DOJ for potential prosecution over her testimony against Trump
• April 27, 2026 — ICE detained mother, two children at Texas school bus stop after acknowledging mistaken identity
• June 4, 2026 — AP investigation found DHS and ICE re-separated dozens of children from parents in violation of 2023 court settlement
• June 18, 2026 — DOJ fired Aurora, Colorado immigration judge Brea Burgie without cause after she resisted bail-hearing rollback
• July 10, 2026 — CBP seized journalist Max Blumenthal's phones at Dulles Airport days after Trump ally Loomer called for his arrest
• July 19, 2026 — ICE held Venezuelan asylum-seeker eight days past its own 72-hour standard in unsanitary conditions, then barred a congresswoman from seeing her
• July 21, 2026 — Florida Auditor General found Department of Children and Families delayed access to Medicaid audit, citing 'Significant Audit Constraints'
• July 22, 2026 — The Crimson White investigation reveals University of Alabama System quietly removed LGBTQ-inclusive language from non-discrimination policies
• July 31, 2026 — Michigan corrections department declined to investigate fifth death this year at Women's Huron Valley prison
• August 3, 2026 — Audit found Elk Grove PD shared license-plate data with 3,600+ outside agencies in 8.3 million searches
• August 4, 2026 — DHS defied a federal court order to image 800 immigration agents' cellphones sought as evidence in LA racial-profiling suit
• August 4, 2026 — CBP sought private contractors to track down and photograph deported people's homes abroad to collect fines
• August 4, 2026 — Trump DOJ obtained court vacatur of Oath Keepers leaders' January 6 seditious conspiracy convictions
• August 4, 2026 — Senate committee chairman ruled Fauci's Fifth Amendment privilege invalid, moved to hold him in contempt of Congress
• August 5, 2026 — New York Times reveals ICE threatened Chicago, Minneapolis sheriffs with prosecution over jail access
• August 5, 2026 — GAO report found federal agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, withheld DOGE personnel and ethics-compliance records
• August 5, 2026 — Scripps News investigation revealed Trump's disclosed stock trades in Axon and other companies awarded immigration contracts
• August 5, 2026 — AP investigation reveals ICE detained more than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty troops amid military-family policy rollback
• August 5, 2026 — LA Public Press investigation revealed LA County women's jail had years of brown water, mold, and broken plumbing despite health citations

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