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.
Just after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from immigration detention, Trump officials again sought to arrest him after an immigration judge retroactively “corrected” a years-old ruling in his immigration case. One legal expert described the move as the equivalent of a judge unilaterally changing a years-old jury verdict from not guilty to guilty.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that officials in Fulton County, Georgia, hand over ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote in an attempt to revive President Trump’s fraudulent claims that the election was stolen.
For the second time in a week, a federal grand jury refused the Justice Department’s attempt to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges.
Late Update, 5:30PM ET: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from ICE custody and detention according to his attorney. A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man whose arrest in Maryland, illegal removal to El Salvador and return to U.S. immigration detention became a flashpoint in President Donald […]
A federal judge Wednesday again attempted to prevent President Trump from keeping hundreds of federalized California National Guard members stationed in Los Angeles.
The Justice Department will potentially treat opponents of President Donald Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi to all U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Trump, announced Monday that she will step down as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor a week after an appeals court disqualified her from the role.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could allow the court’s conservatives to supercharge President Trump’s effort to assert absolute control over agencies that regulate the economy, the stock market, federal campaign finance and communications.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether President Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States.
A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday approved President Donald Trump’s arbitrary firings of two officials at independent agencies that defend the rights of workers. The ruling, issued by two Trump-appointed judges, further expands executive authority. A dissenting judge warned that it “brings us closer to autocracy, harms our nation, and […]
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