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.
Historical and oversight watchdog groups sued President Trump over the Justice Department’s recent assertion that he would no longer have to comply with a federal law requiring the preservation of presidential records.
In his first press conference as acting attorney general, Todd Blanche said that President Trump has a “right” and “duty” to order the Justice Department to investigate his political enemies.
President Trump dismissed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general after growing frustrated with her failure to prosecute his political enemies aggressively enough and for her handling of the Epstein files.
A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared deeply skeptical of President Donald Trump’s bid to unilaterally eliminate birthright citizenship as part of his attack on immigration in all forms.
Fulton County officials fighting for the return of 2020 election materials seized by the FBI asked a federal judge to order the Justice Department to disclose details about its repeated attempts to obtain the county’s election records.
New documents show that a federal judge found flaws in the FBI’s original search warrant application against Fulton County’s election hub. Rather than rejecting the application, the judge helped the bureau refine its request.
Fulton County officials urged a federal judge to order the Department of Justice to return 2020 election records seized during the FBI’s unprecedented raid on the county’s election hub earlier this year, arguing the move violated voters’ rights and relied on misinformation.
During a norm-shattering appearance at a conservative political conference, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he couldn’t understand why anyone would disagree with a president deploying federal agents to the polls.
President Trump Thursday defended his decision to cast another ballot by mail in recent Florida special elections, despite relentlessly attacking the voting method as a vehicle for election fraud.
The FBI agent behind the bureau’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election records from Fulton County, Georgia, will not have to testify in an upcoming hearing in the county’s lawsuit seeking the return of the materials, a federal judge ruled.