According to a congressional notice obtained by Democracy Docket, it’s unclear whether the White House is now reversing plans to have the new assistant attorney general report directly to Vance and President Donald Trump.
The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — both Democrats — marking a striking escalation in an already volatile standoff between the state and federal government.
President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and send the military to Minnesota to put down protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s killing of a Minneapolis woman.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis recently indicated a willingness to pardon Peters.
JD Vance is a Yale-trained lawyer who understands that police power can only take an authoritarian so far. A true strongman must control the prosecutorial state.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday, in an effort to prevent the Trump administration from moving to reduce his retired Navy rank and pension — actions Kelly says were taken to punish him for criticizing the administration and warning service members to refuse unlawful orders.
The president has denied funding and even launched a federal investigation over Peters’ incarceration.
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Trump White House launched a new government website that rewrites the events of that day.
Dumb as it may be, the conspiracy theory connecting Venezuela with American voting has deep roots.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is helping build a ‘national voter roll’ aimed at allowing the federal government to root out noncitizens, a group of former DOJ voting attorneys warned in a recent court filing opposing the agency’s demands for states’ unredacted voter registration information.