In a first-of-its-kind finding, the Justice Department said Phoenix police have shown a pattern of violating the civil and constitutional rights of unhoused people in a scathing report of how the force has handled a growing homelessness crisis. Officials said police unlawfully arrested, ticketed and destroyed people’s property, often hindering them from finding stable housing. […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland called the increasing attacks against the Department of Justice “dangerous to our democracy” in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday morning. In the piece, Garland defended the DOJ against recent threats made by allies of former President Donald Trump to defund the work of special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting […]
Donald Trump is planning an assault on the American justice system should he win re-election to the White House, in which he would seek to destroy the independence of the justice department and turn it into an attack machine for his Make American great again (Maga) movement. At the heart of his plans is the […]
Jun. 5—A U.S. Department of Justice investigation a decade ago found a disturbing pattern and practice of the use of unconstitutional excessive force by Albuquerque police officers, particularly with the mentally ill or those in crisis as the victims. The significant turnaround in the operations of the agency, DOJ officials told a federal judge in […]
Top House Republicans on Wednesday sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department recommending President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress. The letter from the three GOP committee chairmen to Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel David Weiss comes as Hunter Biden is standing […]
will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg’s office and Fannie Willis’s office and Letitia James’s office? The offices you’re referring to are independent offices of state. I get that, I get that. The question is whether or not you will provide all of […]
Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have reached a settlement with the Justice Department after they alleged their privacy rights were violated when their text messages were released and became political fodder for Donald Trump to oppose the Russia investigation during his presidency. The settlement, described as a “tentative agreement” in a court […]
I got a – most of us got a solicitation email this morning from the former President of the United States saying that the Justice Department had authorization to kill him during the Mar-a-Lago raid. First, can you give us some clarification on that particular point that he’s making and whether or not deadly force […]
We can add Oklahoma to the list of states facing scrutiny from the Justice Department for forging their own immigration policies that essentially usurp federal authority. On Tuesday, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit seeking to “preserve its exclusive authority under federal law to regulate the entry, reentry, and presence of noncitizens.” The suit says: […]
Donald Trump has lashed out once again at Joe Biden and the US Department of Justice after classified documents were found in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago. The former president, in a typically loud post on his social media platform Truth Social, claimed that FBI agents had been authorized to use “deadly force” during the “unconstitutional” […]
President Biden on Thursday publicly endorsed the Justice Department’s recommendation to loosen restrictions on marijuana, a long-expected measure that marks a historic shift in the nation’s drug policy. “Far too many lives have been upended because of failed approach to marijuana, and I’m committed to righting those wrongs,” Biden said in a video posted on […]
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Tuesday argued the Justice Department is trying to silence “the voice of MAGA” after federal prosecutors called on a judge to lift the stay on his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Prosecutors cited the ruling of […]