Original Date Announced

President Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, directing the National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its local offices (JTTFs) to "investigate, prosecute, and disrupt entities and individuals engaged in acts of political violence and intimidation designed to suppress lawful political activity or obstruct the rule of law." In describing "acts of political violence," Section 1 of the memorandum references "[r]iots in Los Angeles and Portland" that it asserts "reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers." It specifically references the "organized doxing" of ICE agents as "obstrut[ing] the operations of the Federal Government as well as aid[ing] and abet[ing] criminal activity the Federal Government is lawfully pursuing."

Section 2(b) of the memorandum targets "potential Federal crimes relating to acts of recruiting or radicalizing persons for the purpose of: (i) political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against rights; or (ii) the violent deprivation of any citizen's rights." Section 2(c) further directs JTTFs to investigate "institutional and individual funders, and officers and employees of organizations, that are responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct" described in Section 2(b). Section 2(h) directs the Attorney General to order the prosecution of all activities described in subsections (a) through (c) "to the maximum extent permissible by law."

Section 2(h) directs the Attorney General to "issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia common to organizations and entities that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and prevent potential violent activity."

Sections 2(i) and (j) respectively direct the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate "financial networks that fund domestic terrorism and political violence" and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to "take action to ensure that no tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic extremism."

Section 3 provides that the Attorney General "may recommend that any group or entity whose members are engaged in activities meeting the definition of 'domestic terrorism' in 18 U.S.C. 2331(5) merits designation as a 'domestic terrorist organization,'" and the AG shall submit a list of such groups to the President. A "domestic terrorist organization" is not a term that appears in U.S. law.

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Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.09.09 DHS Says Making and Posting Videos of ICE Agents is “Violence” - Center for Media and Democracy

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the Center for Media and Democracy that "videotaping ICE law enforcement and posting photos and videos of them online is doxing our agents."

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.09.18 Motion to Quash for @Stopicenet - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

DHS issued a subpoena to Meta seeking information from a group named "Stop ICE," which has posted videos identifying individual ICE officers based on public information. The Civil Liberties Defense Center filed a motion to quash this subpoena in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In the Matter of the Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105, No. 4:25-MC-80284 (N.D. Cal).

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Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.09.18 Motion to Quash Administrative Subpoena for @LBProtest - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

An anonymous litigant moved to a quash an administrative subpoena for the Instagram account using the handle "@LBProtest," which posts information relating to ICE activity, including individual officers' identities. The subpoena "references 'Officer Safety/Doxing' and states that the information is sought 'pursuant to an official, criminal investigation regarding officer safety.'" The motion contends that the administrative subpoena violates the First Amendment and is not authorized by statute.

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.09.19 Order re Motion to Quash for @LBProtests - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Meta not to comply with a DHS subpoena seeking the personal information of Instagram users behind the @LBProtest account, a user who has posted the names and photos of ICE agents. The court held that Meta must withhold the information "until the court decides on the subpoena's legality." J. Doe v. U.S. DHS, No. 3:25-MC-80286 (N.D. Cal.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.09.29 AG Memo on Ending Political Violence Against ICE

Attorney General Bondi issued a memo on ending political violence against ICE. The memo:

• "direct[s] the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to immediately direct all necessary officers and agents to defend ICE facilities and personnel whenever and wherever they come under attack, including in Portland and Chicago";
• adds "[a]ll state and local law enforcement officers protecting ICE facilities and personnel" to a temporary ICE Protection Task Force;
• "direct[s] the Department's Office of Justice Programs and Community Oriented Policing Services to provide as soon as possible, consistent with existing statutory authority, grant funding and training and technical assistance support to the federal, state, and local law enforcement officers protecting ICE facilities and personnel"; and
• states that the "Department of Justice will arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit these crimes [against ICE], whether through funding, coordination, planning, or other means."