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U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes acknowledged that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will almost certainly be re-arrested by the Department of Homeland Security despite her order for his release from federal custody, but that didn’t stop her from eviscerating the Trump administration’s embarrassing attempts to paint him as a hardened criminal …

A lawyer for Donald Trump’s Justice Department recently argued in court that sometimes the president just says stuff — and it doesn’t matter if what Trump says is or isn’t accurate, because his comments aren’t necessarily reflective of the government’s position on a given matter. During an April 30 court …

Donald Trump’s administration has appealed to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to bless his effort to deport a group of migrants to South Sudan, a war-torn African country, with little notice and in express violation of a judge’s order. The high court has already smacked down the administration’s efforts …

The Trump Justice Department, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is weighing a move that could end the Public Integrity Section’s power to oversee indictments of members of Congress, potentially opening the door to politically motivated prosecutions, The Washington Post reports. If the proposed changes go through, U.S. attorneys — positions …

The lawyer whom Donald Trump has empowered to investigate the Jan. 6 prosecutors previously helped run a nonprofit that raised money for dozens of people who were charged with the most serious offenses, including sedition, conspiracy, and assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol. Serving as Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney …

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has been busy triggering constitutional crises, setting due process and other basic rights on fire, rocking the U.S. economy with a trade war based on horrifically bad math, wielding the Justice Department and other agencies to target his political enemies, …

In another blow to civil rights under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice’s civil rights division has reassigned all managers working in the department’s voting section and suspended all active investigations being handled by the unit. According to a Monday report from The Guardian, last week Tamar Hagler, chief …

Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, was asked what should have been a pretty simple question during a Fox News appearance on Monday night. “Is that legal?” Jesse Watters wondered, referring to Donald Trump musing earlier in the day about sending “homegrown” American citizens to El Salvador. …

Shortly before midnight on April 15, United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, Tanya S. Chutkan dealt Donald Trump’s administration another in a series of lower court losses. The court issued a preliminary injunction that blocked Trump’s effort to claw back $20 billion in federal funding for …

Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign was backed in part by millions of dollars from cryptocurrency firms and wealthy investors in the industry. In return, he has sought to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world,” signing an executive order on “strengthening American leadership in digital financial technology” and announcing …