On October 30, 2025, the Associated Press revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation into whether leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial justice protests in 2020. The …
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On October 29, 2025, the Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment charging Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five other activists with conspiracy to impede federal law enforcement officers and forcibly impeding ICE officers during a September 26 protest outside an …
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Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James filed coordinated motions challenging the constitutional authority of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan to prosecute their cases, with both challenges consolidated before Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the District of …
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Elizabeth Yusi, assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia’s Norfolk office, was terminated along with her deputy Kristin Bird for resisting Trump administration pressure to bring mortgage fraud charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James. Yusi authored an internal …
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Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni, a 15-year DOJ attorney, revealed in October 2025 testimony that senior officials ordered him to fabricate terrorist claims in court briefs to justify the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador. Reuveni was told to argue in legal …
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On October 9, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. The indictment alleges that James misrepresented a Norfolk, Virginia home she purchased in …
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On October 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a contentious oversight hearing marked by sharp Democratic criticism of the Justice Department’s targeting of President Trump’s political opponents. The hearing came one day before former …
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On October 1, 2025, the Department of Justice fired Michael Ben’Ary, the chief of the national security section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, after pro-Trump activist and writer Julie Kelly posted on social media falsely linking him to internal …
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Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, just days after President Trump publicly demanded his DOJ move ’now’ to prosecute enemies. The indictment—brought by Lindsey Halligan, …
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A senior DOJ official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office directed prosecutors to prepare investigations into George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, exploring potential charges including material support to terrorism, arson, wire fraud, and racketeering. The directive …
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The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed federal lawsuits against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania demanding unredacted statewide voter registration lists including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers for …
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On September 25, 2025, Aakash Singh, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, sent a directive to U.S. attorney’s offices in at least seven states—including California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and Maryland—ordering them to prepare investigations into the …
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Trump appointed Lindsey Halligan, his former personal defense attorney with zero prosecutorial experience, as interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—one of the nation’s most important federal prosecutor offices. The appointment came two days after Trump forced out Erik …
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The Trump Justice Department officially closed an FBI investigation into border czar Tom Homan after FBI recordings captured him accepting $50,000 in cash in a restaurant takeout bag on September 20, 2024, from undercover agents posing as business executives. In the recordings, Homan agreed to help …
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On September 20, 2025, Erik Siebert resigned as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after President Trump publicly stated he wanted Siebert “out” following a monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James that failed to produce …
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On September 16, 2025, former Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered his first public remarks since leaving the Department of Justice in a speech at George Mason University, warning that “the rule of law is under attack like in no other period in our lifetimes.” NPR exclusively obtained a …
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President Trump renewed threats to investigate philanthropist George Soros under racketeering laws (RICO), accusing him of funding protests against the administration and calling it ‘real agitation.’ Trump has repeatedly targeted Soros with antisemitic conspiracy theories and blamed him …
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The Department of Justice is demanding comprehensive voter roll data from over 30 states, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and voting histories, claiming the intent is to identify noncitizen voters despite minimal evidence of such fraud. The data collection effort aims to create …
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The Department of Justice asked a federal judge to deny NBC News’ request to unseal the names of two associates who received large wire transfers from Jeffrey Epstein in 2018, totaling $100,000 and $250,000. The payments were made days after the Miami Herald began publishing investigative …
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The Trump administration filed an expedited emergency petition with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the Federal Circuit’s August 29 ruling that declared Trump’s sweeping tariffs illegal under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The government asked the Court to …
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The U.S. Department of Justice formally opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on September 4, 2025, following a criminal referral from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte. Federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas in Georgia and Michigan to …
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The Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud, stemming from accusations that she listed two properties as primary residences on mortgage applications. The investigation follows Trump’s failed attempt to fire Cook …
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Federal prosecutors charged a military veteran for burning a U.S. flag during a White House protest, following Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Justice to prosecute flag burning despite clear Supreme Court precedent protecting the act as constitutionally protected speech. …
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The Department of Justice loosened qualification requirements to allow ‘any lawyer’—including approximately 600 military Judge Advocate General (JAG) officers—to serve as immigration judges, bypassing the traditional judicial independence standards and specialized training required for …
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The Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into FBI and CIA officials who conducted the Russia investigation, targeting former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate, and other officials who investigated Russian …
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President Trump signed two executive orders on August 25, 2025, aimed at eliminating cashless bail policies nationwide and specifically in Washington D.C. The nationwide order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify states and jurisdictions with cashless bail policies and authorizes …
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President Trump signed an executive order titled ‘Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag’ directing the Department of Justice to prosecute individuals for flag burning, despite the Supreme Court’s landmark 1989 decision in Texas v. Johnson establishing flag burning as protected …
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Justice Department releases 377-page transcript of July 2025 interview between convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Deputy AG Todd Blanche (Trump’s former defense lawyer). Maxwell given limited immunity, denies client list exists, claims Trump never acted inappropriately, raising …
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Federal Judge Matthew Brann ruled that Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been exercising the functions and duties of U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey without lawful authority since July 1, 2025. After the Senate failed to confirm Habba before her 120-day interim appointment expired, a panel …
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US Attorney Jeanine Pirro launched a Justice Department investigation into whether DC police manipulated crime statistics to make rates appear lower, despite violent crime being down 26% and at a 30-year low. The investigation provides justification for Trump’s federal takeover of DC police …
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Trump installed loyalists including former personal lawyer Alina Habba as US Attorneys without Senate confirmation, using legal loopholes to circumvent constitutional oversight. A federal judge ruled Habba served ‘without lawful authority’ after the administration fired a court-appointed …
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William Pulte, Trump’s FHFA Director, accesses private mortgage application data to accuse Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud for listing two properties as primary residences, part of pattern targeting Trump’s political opponents.
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Fox News reported on August 5, 2025, that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland launched a federal criminal investigation into Democratic California Senator Adam Schiff for alleged mortgage fraud. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) referred Schiff’s case to DOJ, accusing him of …
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House Oversight Chairman James Comer escalated dramatically on August 5, 2025, by issuing 11 subpoenas: one to the DOJ demanding complete files by August 19, depositions from Bill and Hillary Clinton, and testimony from six former attorneys general and two former FBI directors. The selection notably …
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Whistleblower Aid revealed that the DOJ Office of the Inspector General ’lost’ a whistleblower disclosure for almost three months, only ‘finding’ it on the eve of Emil Bove’s confirmation vote for a federal judgeship. The disclosure, submitted on May 5, 2025, alleged …
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The Senate confirmed former Fox News host and Trump loyalist Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in a 50-45 party-line vote. Pirro, who co-hosted ‘The Five’ on Fox News before her appointment, had been serving as interim U.S. attorney since May 2025 after …
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Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred on August 1, 2025, from a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas. The transfer came one week after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell and her lawyer for nine …
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Bloomberg reported on August 1, 2025, that the FBI redacted President Donald Trump’s name and those of other high-profile individuals from approximately 100,000 pages of government files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Internal directives instructed about 1,000 FBI agents to ‘flag’ any …
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Politico reported in August 2025 that over a dozen high-ranking officials across multiple federal agencies were forced to leave their jobs or had nominations derailed after being flagged as ‘disloyal’ by far-right extremist Laura Loomer, with hundreds more terminations planned. Loomer …
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The Justice Department used legally dubious tactics to bypass Senate confirmation, re-designating Trump loyalists as ‘acting’ U.S. attorneys in New Jersey, Nevada, California, and New York. After district judges declined to re-appoint certain interim appointees, Attorney General Pam …
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The House Oversight subcommittee voted 8-2 to subpoena the DOJ for Epstein files on July 23, 2025, with three Republicans—Nancy Mace (R-SC), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Brian Jack (R-GA)—breaking ranks to join Democrats in demanding transparency. This bipartisan rebellion followed the DOJ’s July 7 …
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Comprehensive analysis reveals the Trump administration defied 57 of 165 adverse court rulings (35% noncompliance), marking an unprecedented challenge to judicial authority. Multiple legal experts warn this pattern represents a critical constitutional crisis, with potential breakdown of checks and …
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On July 12, 2025, five days after the Department of Justice released a memo stating no Jeffrey Epstein “client list” existed—contradicting Attorney General Pam Bondi’s February claim that the list was “sitting on my desk”—President Donald Trump attacked his own …
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Attorney General Pam Bondi fired at least 20 Justice Department employees specifically linked to Jack Smith’s investigations of Trump, including prosecutors, support staff, litigation assistants, and U.S. marshals. This action is part of a broader systematic purge of DOJ personnel involved in …
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Elon Musk posts “Official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter” showing zero arrests, floods platform with 35+ posts suggesting Trump is in Epstein files and calling it “the final straw” after DOJ reversal
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The DOJ released a two-page memo on July 7, 2025, declaring “no incriminating ‘client list’” existed, that Epstein died by suicide, and that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.” This directly contradicted Attorney General Bondi’s …
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Department of Justice memo states no evidence of Epstein “client list” or blackmail operation exists, directly contradicting AG Pam Bondi’s February claim list was “on my desk,” revealing massive cover-up or deception
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DOJ posted July 7 memo stating no Epstein “client list” exists and no further files would be released, contradicting AG Pam Bondi’s earlier claim list was “sitting on my desk.” Memo stated “systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client …
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Judicial Conference approved groundbreaking protocols for responding to systematic executive branch noncompliance, including accelerated contempt procedures, enhanced judicial protection measures, and a coordinated inter-district response strategy to preserve judicial review powers. The 2025 …
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In June 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Judicial Independence, Margaret Satterthwaite, released a groundbreaking report documenting systematic attacks on the U.S. federal judiciary. The report detailed executive branch efforts to intimidate judges, including public denigration, …
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