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Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was forcibly removed in handcuffs from a press conference in Los Angeles Thursday after attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem questions.
Russell Vought — Trump’s budget hawk and one of the chief architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — appears to be stepping in to become DOGE’s new power broker.
Former DOJ staffers say Ed Martin Jr.’s conduct goes against the internal Justice Manual.
President Trump fired the head of the Library of Congress — which is part of the legislative branch — and the top official at the U.S. Copyright Office.
The Trump administration is looking into suspending people’s right to challenge their incarceration in court, to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, White House aide Stephen Miller said Friday.
Lawmakers blasted the White House’s proposal to cut nearly half a billion dollars from CISA’s budget next year.
The former GOP local election clerk in Colorado was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a voting system data breach.
A legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller sued Chief Justice John Roberts in a brazen but unlikely attempt to seize control of the federal court system.
The DOJ is expected to drop its involvement in all active voting rights cases.
President Donald Trump targeted the financial backbone of the Democratic Party as part of a major escalation in his ongoing authoritarian effort to use the government to hamstring his political opponents.
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