Attorney General Pamela Bondi during her Senate confirmation bid pitched herself as a leader with a track record of supporting victims, a history some Republican senators pointed to when backing her nomination. But after her first months in the role, […]
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Five organizations filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department seeking to reverse the termination of a swath of department grant funding last month, arguing the decisions were unlawful and unconstitutional. The complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for
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Posted May 12, 2025 at 3:48pm Attorneys for Rep. Henry Cuellar asked a federal court to throw out last year’s federal indictment against the Texas Democrat, arguing it violates the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. Cuellar’s legal team, in a
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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a lower court ruling that required six federal departments and agencies to reinstate more than 16,000 federal probationary employees it had fired. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court
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President Donald Trump’s call Tuesday to impeach a federal judge ramps up pressure on the House Republican majority to break with a centuries-old tradition of not seeking to remove judges from the bench based only on their decisions. Chief Justice
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President Donald Trump threw cold water on the plans to build a new FBI headquarters in Maryland during a speech at the Justice Department on Friday, adding new uncertainty into a contentious and yearslong issue for lawmakers. The General Services
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Despite committee votes, resolutions and fiery speeches, pro-gun rights lawmakers last Congress were stymied when it came to rolling back Biden-era firearm regulations. House Republicans voted to overturn a rule that cracked down on firearms with stabilizing braces, only to
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An agency official told House lawmakers the federal prison system was holding about 700 immigration detainees at four facilities as of Wednesday morning, part of a Trump administration strategy that has drawn objections from a group of Senate Democrats. Kathleen
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Trump nominees for key posts in the Justice Department fielded questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday about whether elected officials could refuse to obey a federal court order. Sen. Richard J. Durbin, the top Democrat on the panel,
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Throughout the years, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz earned a reputation as an impartial referee on some of the thorniest political issues in Washington. His watchdog office debunked conspiracy theories about the 2021 Capitol riot, examined the investigation into
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