Source: Al Drago / Getty Last week, we reported that a federal judge temporarily put the brakes on President Donald Trump’s $1.766 billion woe-is-MAGA reparations fund — or what the Justice Department called the “anti-weaponization fund” — which happened after 35 retired federal judges asked a district judge to open an investigation into the fund […]
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Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has been toying around with the idea of paying reparations to Jan 6 convicts, in his ongoing effort to rewrite the history of what happened that day, as well as who ultimately caused it. And if the federal government paying […]
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On February 10, Donald Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in Nvidia, a massive AI chip maker. A week later, Nvidia announced a major computer processing power deal with Meta. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, has spent more than a year cozying up to Trump. Trump previously purchased between $500,000 and […]
Read MoreSource: ITRartwork / Getty White conservatives think we’re being inflammatory when we say the Trump administration is a white supremacist organization. In truth, we’re not even being hyperbolic. At the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division saw a mass exodus of more than 100 attorneys, who resigned from the department due […]
Read MoreSource: KENT NISHIMURA / Getty President Donald Trump is still trying to appeal his way out of being the first president in history to be an adjudicated rapist, on top of being a 34-time felon. And, once again, he’s running to his conservative pals on the U.S. Supreme Court in a desperate attempt to make it […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty Y’all. We live in the stupidest timeline. The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey over an Instagram picture of some seashells. On Wednesday, Comey surrendered himself to law enforcement, had his first court appearance, and was released without […]
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Even then, this might not be open-and-shut against the SPLC. As legal blogger Ken White noted on Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided a case last year in which a defendant took out three loans from a bank for a total of $219,000, then later told the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, that “borrowed […] […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Exactly one year after civil rights groups publicly declared their commitment to defending against the Trump administration’s anti-civil rights agenda, the empire struck back with politically motivated charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center. News of the Department of Justice filing charges against SPLC follows a pattern and practice of revisionist […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Here’s a question: If the Trump administration isn’t a white supremacist organization, then how come President Donald Trump’s thoroughly subjugated Department of Justice is prosecuting one of the nation’s most well-known civil rights organizations for using paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist organizations? According to the New York Times, on Tuesday, […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty FBI Director Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic over what he described on social media as a “hit piece,” referring to a story the outlet posted last Friday, titled “The FBI Director is MIA.” The piece includes allegations that Patel has engaged in “excessive drinking” as well as “conspicuous inebriation […]
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Source: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Getty The Trump administration has continued its efforts to rewrite history when it comes to the events of Jan. 6. The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were previously sentenced for their role in leading members […]
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Source: J. David Ake / Getty Trump supporters across the country might find it comforting to know that, while President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war in Iran gets more costly, deadly and, frankly, embarrassing for the Trump administration by the day, the MAGA-fied Department of Justice still has plenty of time to do the president’s […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty There are people on social media who have expressed fears that, when President Donald Trump and his administration fired now-former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, he would only replace her with someone significantly worse. But truthfully, when Trump starts shaking things up in his administration, especially during this second term, he doesn’t tend […]
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Hegseth had been pushing Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to remove the four officers for months, but given their years of exemplary service, Driscoll refused, military officials told the Times. Hegseth finally removed their names himself, likely without the legal authority to do so. As per military policy, the defense secretary is technically only supposed to […]
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Source: JIM WATSON / Getty Breonna Taylor’s mother has spoken out after the Department of Justice moved to drop charges against two police officers who drafted the no-knock warrant that led to Taylor’s shooting death by Louisville police. “She was killed because of their lies and negligence, and somebody should be held accountable for that,” […]
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Source: Bill Clark / Getty For possibly the first time since President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda began, the Trump administration is being made to explain why immigration agents are showing up at people’s immigration court hearings to make arrests. As usual, the explanation is that the administration is comprised of a gaggle of xenophobic […]
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It was one of three pieces of legislation signed by Sherrill to protect immigrant rights across the state and push back against Trump’s unlawful immigration agenda, a promise she campaigned on before taking office in January. A nearly identical bill was vetoed by former Governor Bill Murphy in his final day of office. “As we’ve […]
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Minnesota purposefully chose to bring the case in the district court in Washington, D.C., which provides an important advantage relative to other venues. In most circuits, a Touhy denial gets deferential review to the feds, and even if you win, it’s usually just a remand that lets the agency restate its denial more artfully. But […]
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“Because I just don’t know enough about it,” Trump said. “I think it’s something that I was told is under investigation. But Tomahawks are used by others, as you know. Numerous other nations have Tomahawks, they buy ’em from us. But I will, certainly whatever the report shows, I’m willing to live with that report.” […]
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Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty Look, no matter how one feels about people who regularly smoke marijuana, we should all be able to agree that any notion that they are disproportionately predisposed to committing gun violence is absurd. And yet, for some reason, the U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing a marijuana user’s challenge to […]
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Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty President Donald Trump, his administration and his sycophants in the U.S. Department of Justice keep trying to convince us that files related to the late billionaire child sex trafficker and abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, are much ado about nothing, and that the controversy surrounding the files is the result of a […]
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Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Look, at the very least, can we all just admit that the Trump administration is janky? President Donald Trump has essentially turned the executive branch into a ghetto with a golden toilet, filled his Cabinet with DE-white hires who are barely qualified to install actual cabinets, and has White […]
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Source: Irfan Khan / Getty The Trump administration is so desperate to reinforce the narrative that white people are discriminated against in the nation where they are and have always been the most dominant and powerful racial group that it is now seeking to join legal actions it had nothing to do with, just because […]
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Source: NurPhoto / Getty Whether it’s the heavily redacted Epstein files or the way it’s handled the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the Department of Justice under the Trump administration seems to specialize in the cover-up. Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has said that the FBI has formally refused to share […]
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