President Donald Trump’s Justice Department removed protections for journalists in investigations into leaks, allowing the government greater power to demand information. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a memo circulated Friday that she will rescind policies established by the Biden administration preventing the Justice Department from seeking records or compelling …
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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. …
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So many of the events and policies of the past three months of Donald Trump’s second presidency can be understood as downstream from one simple, Republican Party-wide organizing principle. That is, Trump aims to severely punish and brutalize his enemies, big and small, even if they didn’t do anything illegal …
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On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione’s legal team, led by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, responded in a statement. “By seeking to murder Luigi Mangione, the Justice Department has …
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Earlier this month, as President Donald Trump sought to shore up Tesla‘s sagging stock price by displaying some cars from bestie Elon Musk‘s automaker in the White House driveway, he vowed to come down hard on people charged for violent attacks on the company’s dealerships. “I will do that,” he …
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During the past two months of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s power grabs, it has been clear the second Trump administration is building up to a confrontation with the American courts system — one that would trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis. That moment of truth has arrived. On Friday, hours …
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Liz Oyer served as Pardon Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from April 2022 to March 2025. Throughout American history and regardless of presidential politics, the mission of the Department of Justice has been to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil …
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Donald Trump, in his speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, said it “should be illegal” for people to criticize judges, adding that it “probably is illegal in some form.” It’s not the first time the president has expressed this sentiment — on the campaign trail last year, Trump …
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Conspiracy theorists, amateur investigators, and online cranks of all sorts were livid today as they came to realize that documents related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein released by the Trump administration in a highly publicized spectacle contained zero new information — despite promises of bombshell revelations. Their shock resembled …
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On Wednesday evening, one day into her tenure as U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi announced the end of the Kleptocracy Initiative, launched by the Justice Department in 2010 to battle high-level corruption worldwide and return ill-gotten funds to victims of financial crimes. The former Florida attorney general and legal counsel …
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