On March 11, 2026, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators – Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) – sent a formal letter to Acting Comptroller General Orice Williams Brown of the U.S. Government Accountability Office requesting an audit of …
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3, 2026 for her first major oversight hearing since the deaths of two U.S. citizens killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. The nearly four-hour session produced extraordinary bipartisan …
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Senate Judiciary Committee members Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) reintroduced the bipartisan Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act on February 11, 2026, seeking major reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before its April 20, 2026 expiration. The bill …
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Twelve bipartisan senators write to DOJ Acting Inspector General Don Berthiaume demanding an audit of the Department’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The letter is led by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), with additional …
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President Trump formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Federal prosecutors had documented that Hernández facilitated the movement of approximately 400 tons of …
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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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The Senate Judiciary Committee held a critical hearing investigating unprecedented threats to judicial independence in 2025, documenting rising levels of violence, intimidation, disinformation, and defiance of lawful court judgments. Testimony revealed a disturbing pattern of physical threats, …
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on November 9, 2023, to issue subpoenas to Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo, demanding documentation about gifts provided to Supreme Court justices after both men refused voluntary cooperation with the Committee’s ethics investigation. Committee Chairman Dick …
During a bipartisan meeting with senators in the Oval Office to discuss immigration, President Trump asked why the United States would want people from ‘shithole countries’ while being briefed on changes to the visa lottery system. Trump questioned why America would want immigrants from …
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