Jacob is a reporter at Democracy Docket and covers anti-Trump accountability litigation. He is from South Dakota and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and political science from Augustana University. Before joining Democracy Docket, he covered breaking news at Axios.
The FBI requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. President Trump called for the lawmakers to be imprisoned and executed over the video.
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor President Donald Trump handpicked to bring charges against them had been unlawfully serving since September.
Days after President Trump called for Sen. Mark Kelly’s execution, the Defense Department said it would open a “review” of “serious allegations of misconduct” against the Arizona Democrat.
Just two months after Trump publicly ordered Attorney General Bondi to target a slew of his perceived enemies, the Justice Department’s efforts to go after them may be crumbling.
In a feverish flurry of social media posts and reposts Thursday morning, President Donald Trump expressed support for imprisoning and executing a group of Democratic lawmakers for what he termed “seditious behavior.” The behavior in question? Urging U.S. military service members to defend the U.S. Constitution and disobey orders that violate the law. In a […]
A Tennessee state judge dealt a blow to President Donald Trump’s effort to use soldiers in policing by temporarily halting Gov. Bill Lee’s (R) deployment of Tennessee National Guard troops to Memphis to assist with the Trump administration’s law enforcement surge in the city.
Ratcheting up President Trump’s assault on the judiciary, a group of Republican senators Monday asked an appeals court to suspend Chief Judge James Boasberg, who initiated potential contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials in April.
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to give former FBI Director James Comey all materials it presented to a grand jury to secure a two-count indictment against him in September, marking a major blow to the department’s case against Comey.
The Justice Department reached a new low after Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly thanked President Trump for ordering the department to investigate ties that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — a longtime friend and former confidant of Trump’s — may have had to prominent Democrats and institutions.
California called on a federal court to end President Trump’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, arguing that the Trump administration is carrying out an “unlawful” and “never-ending” military occupation in the city.
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