Prosecutors rarely appear on programs such as Glenn Beck’s while effectively trying to crowdsource evidence collection, but we’re living in weird times.
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The billionaire philanthropist testified on Wednesday in a closed-door congressional hearing about the Justice Department’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
Senior officials clashed in a series of meetings as they struggled to manage a crisis over the president’s refusal to release the documents.
The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.
The ascendancy of Todd Blanche shows how the practices that were initially deemed out of bounds even in President Trump’s Justice Department seem to be the order of the day.
Blanche has made it clear that he doesn’t want to be the American people’s attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general.
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As acting attorney general, Todd Blanche has shown a willingness to execute the president’s maximalist demands. Whether the Senate will confirm him remains unclear.
The push to investigate what the president’s allies saw as a “deep state” cabal intent on taking him down set off cascading crises, ended careers and undercut the department’s credibility with judges.
Demolish first, argue later.
An existing DOJ mechanism remains a route for Jan 6 payouts
It was the department’s clearest statement to date that it was pulling back from a plan to use taxpayer money to make payments to people who claimed to have been politically persecuted.
As the president prepares to nominate his former defense attorney for attorney general, there is reason for some skepticism about his confirmation odds.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — At least four states — Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas — adopted laws this year making it a crime to disrupt worship services.
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump’s allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him potentially lucrative tax protections.
A new class action complaint alleges that DOJ’s new policy violates the Rehabilitation Act.
Not so easy though.
Another one bites the dust.
Diabolical stuff.
Critics say it is unseemly for retired judges to trade on the prestige of their former positions.
Team Trump abandoned a scheme that would have helped the president’s allies, but left intact a parallel scheme that helps the president directly.
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The acting attorney general said the administration was preserving a broad order protecting the president and his family from audits of already filed returns, despite dropping a $1.8 billion payout fund.
The fund has drawn backlash from critics who said it was a scheme to reward President Trump’s political allies with public benefits.
The president was left with a choice: Keep fighting an uphill battle or back down from a fight he was likely to lose. He apparently went with the latter.
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The federal courts have long assumed that the government’s lawyers are trustworthy. Now judges across the country are criticizing their lack of candor.
The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups.
Discussions among a group of lawyers with allegiance to the president were closely held. Some senior White House officials were said to have felt blindsided as the agreement took shape.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies.
The ruling was a blow to both President Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department, which used the suit to establish a fund likely intended for Trump allies.
NextEra, which is seeking to buy Dominion Energy, has often butted heads with consumer groups, residents and journalists in its home state.
Momentary pause.