Delta Air Lines is asking the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to put airline passengers convicted of disrupting flights on a national no-fly list, barring them from traveling on any commercial flights, according to the letter obtained Friday by several news outlets. In the letter, dated Thursday and first …
Read More »Biden Files Emergency Lawsuit To Reinstate Vaccine Mandate For Large Employers
The Biden administration filed an emergency lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to immediately reinstate its vaccine mandate for private employers with 100 or more workers after it faced a series of legal challenges. Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans issued a preliminary pause on the order, which …
Read More »Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Monday over Texas abortion ban
On Monday, The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on Texas’ six-week abortion ban. The controversial law, which took effect in September, makes it illegal for a woman to get an abortion after six weeks– a period in which women typically aren’t aware that they are pregnant. In addition, the …
Read More »Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Block Texas Abortion Ban
On Monday, the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to block SB8, a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks. The administration claims the measure is unconstitutional, that it was purposefully designed to evade judicial review, and violates the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which enshrined …
Read More »DOJ To Address Threats Of Violence Against School Board Members
Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools, Monday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to meet in the next 30 days with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law …
Read More »DOJ Announces Policy on Chokeholds and ‘No-Knock’ Entries
The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday announced written department-wide policies explicitly prohibiting the use of “chokeholds” and “carotid restraints” unless deadly force is authorized, and limiting the circumstances in which the department’s federal law enforcement components are authorized to use unannounced entries. The announcement follows a review with the department’s law …
Read More »Justice Department Launches Probe Into Phoenix Police Department
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division have announced that the Justice Department has opened a pattern or practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department (PhxPD). The investigation will see if the department engages in discriminatory policing, …
Read More »Trump Urged DOJ Officials To Declare Election Results “Corrupt”
New documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee details former President Donald Trump’s attempt to get Department of Justice officials to declare the 2020 Presidential election as “corrupt” and “illegal.” Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue took notes during a call with the …
Read More »Department of Justice Issues Guidance On Post-Election Audits
The Department of Justice on Wednesday released guidance for states that are conducting post-election audits. “The guidances issued today describe certain federal laws that help ensure free, fair, and secure elections,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “Where violations of such laws occur, the Justice Department will not hesitate to act.” …
Read More »Department Of Justice Sues Georgia Over Voter Suppression Laws
The U.S. Department of Justice announced it is taking definitive action and is suing the state of Georgia over the controversial voting restrictions laws enacted as part of Republican efforts nationwide to limit voting access in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election defeat. “Where we see violations of federal …
Read More »President Biden Announces Strategy To Address Gun Violence
President Joe Biden outlined his administration’s national crime prevention strategy Wednesday after meeting with local leaders on the issue, in remarks that focused on targeting gun violence and new resources for community policing across the country. The Biden administration is responding to a rise in violent crime throughout the United …
Read More »Department of Justice Launches Effort To Crack Down On Firearms Trafficking
The Department of Justice announced it would launch five cross-jurisdictional firearms trafficking strike forces within the next 30 days to help reduce violent crime by addressing illegal gun trafficking in significant firearms trafficking corridors. The Attorney General will discuss with the President, law enforcement officials, and local and community leaders, …
Read More »Attorney General Garland Details Strategy To Combat Domestic Terrorism
On Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. The National Strategy is designed to coordinate and provide a principled path for the federal government’s efforts to counter the heightened domestic terrorism threat, using all available tools. It is the culmination of an effort undertaken at …
Read More »Emails From Justice Department Show How Trump And His Allies Pressured Attorney General To Challenge Election Results
Emails from the Justice Department and White House officials show how former President Donald Trump and his associates tried to pressure then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to challenge the 2020 presidential election. Emails released by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee detail President Trump’s team’s desire for the Justice …
Read More »DOJ Subpoenaed Apple For Information On Democrats Under Trump
An Intelligence Committee official has confirmed to CNN that prosecutors in the Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoenaed Apple for data on House Intelligence Committee Democrats during President Donald Trump‘s administration. “The Committee has continued to seek additional information, but the Department has not been forthcoming in a timely manner, including on …
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