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.
Florida’s bar said Friday it is not currently investigating Lindsey Halligan, a loyalist President Trump selected to bring criminal charges against his political opponents, reversing a claim it made in a recent letter.
After her disastrous hearings before Congress this week, President Trump announced that he would replace Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) at the end of the month.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to short-circuit state bar ethics investigations into department attorneys through a new and unexpected proposed rule.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem told lawmakers that her agency currently had “no plans” to station immigration officers at voting locations this November but refused to explicitly rule out the possibility that they could deploy to the polls.
President Trump again called for retribution against Jack Smith, the former special counsel for the Justice Department who led two criminal investigations against the president.
The Justice Department will soon abandon its defense of President Trump’s retribution campaign against law firms that challenged his political agenda or represented his political opponents over the years
The Justice Department recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged.
At Fulton County’s request, a Trump-appointed federal judge has called for a court hearing this week to force a FBI to testify about the extraordinary affidavit he presented to a court to justify the FBI’s extraordinary raid on a Georgia election facility last month.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced that Vice President Vance would lead a “war on fraud.” The comment appears to stem from a plan for an assistant attorney general who answers directly to the White House.
Voting rights advocates and Democratic officials blasted President Donald Trump after he used his State of the Union address to promote the SAVE America Act — the most restrictive anti-voting bill in U.S. history — and repeat false claims of widespread election fraud.