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The Department of Justice Tuesday sued every federal district judge in Maryland to challenge a standing court order that temporarily bars the government from deporting people after they have filed a challenge.
Nearly 100,000 North Carolina voters will be required to take an additional step to verify their identity or risk being disenfranchised under a plan approved by the GOP-controlled state board of elections.
Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney.
Earlier this month, Virginia became the tenth state to join AVID, but it lacks anything close to the sophistication of the ERIC.
The Supreme Court Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from with minimal notice.
Trump’s call for a special prosecutor comes after FBI Director Kash Patel said that he gave files related to 2020 election interference over to Congress.
A federal judge ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year and imprisoned in El Salvador, should not be detained pending trial on immigrant smuggling charges.
A federal appeals court allowed President Donald Trump to keep using the California National Guard to respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles over the state’s objections.
In the video, Jeffrey Clark attacks “the globalist forces and the forces of internationalism and of the United Nations.”
Federal agents arrested New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander outside an immigration court after he attempted to accompany a person out of a courtroom Tuesday.