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Newly released documents shed more light on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. On Friday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform shared handwritten notes of a December 2020 phone call between the former president and then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. The notes, which were taken by Rosen’s deputy Richard Donoghue, allege that Trump had pressed […]
The U.S. Department of Justice say that federal law does not prohibit private businesses and public agencies from requiring vaccination against COVID-19, per an option from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel. While news of this determination from the DOJ first hit the cycle this week, featured in pieces from CNN and Politico mere hours […]
The Biden administration is backing legislation that aims to put a permanent stop to the harmful sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. On Tuesday, a hearing will see lawmakers engaging with experts on the proposed EQUAL Act (i.e. the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law Act). Ahead of that hearing, per a report […]
Shortly after Donald Trump was elected to office four years ago, his admin’s Department of Justice secretly obtained the phone records of Washington Post journalists, as per the Washington Post’s report on the matter. The Justice Department secretly seized the work, home, and cellphone numbers of reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, as well as former Post journalist Adam Enotus. In […]
A judge ruled two weeks ago that a former restaurant manager in South Carolina owes $546,000 to a man he enslaved, deeming the manager guilty of “coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay.” The manager, 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards, is serving a 10-year prison sentence […]
Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is reportedly the subject of a sex trafficking investigation. Three sources briefed on the matter told the New York Times the inquiry is part of a broader investigation stemming from the prosecution of Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector who has been accused of child sex trafficking. Federal agents are reportedly trying to determine if […]
The Department of Justice is still working to eradicate people who committed Nazi war crimes during the Holocaust. The latest person to be deported is a 95-year-old Tennessee man who worked as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. CBS News reports that Friedrich Karl Berger—who’s lived in the U.S. since 1959—was flown […]
The United States Department of Justice is actively investigating a potential bribery scheme involving officials with ties to the White House. According to CNN, the case was made public Tuesday with the release of heavily redacted court documents in connection to a “bribery-for-pardon” probe. The records, which were unsealed by the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., confirm US prosecutors […]
The Department of Justice has published a new rule that could allow for the use of more execution methods for federal death sentences. These could include death by electrocution or firing squads. According to ProPublica, the rule cleared White House review at the beginning of November and will go into effect on Christmas Eve, just weeks before Donald Trump exits […]
A lack of interest in pursuing antitrust has left us in a state where there are essentially three tech companies: Google, Apple, and Amazon. Now that legislators are poised to go after the first of those with new allegations of antitrust violations, Apple is looking to step into the void created by a divided Google. […]
