The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that it is dropping lawsuits against the police departments of Minneapolis and Louisville, and ending multiple federal investigations into other local law enforcement agencies, marking a sharp shift in oversight under the Trump administration. The decision comes following the confirmation of Harmeet K. Dhillon, …
Read More »Federal Prosecutors Ordered to Drop Corruption Charges Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams
Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove has directed federal prosecutors in New York to drop all corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a senior Justice Department official confirmed Monday evening. The charges, initially brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, …
Read More »Trump’s Attorney General Pick Sparks Concerns Over DOJ Independence
President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Pam Bondi as attorney general has reignited concerns over the independence of the Department of Justice (DOJ), with legal experts and lawmakers questioning whether she and her deputies will act impartially. Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and longtime Trump ally, took her oath …
Read More »Republican-Led States Push Back on DOJ Election Monitors, Citing State Laws
Jimmy Williams Several Republican-led states are pushing back against federal election monitoring, raising tensions just days before a tight presidential election between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Florida, Texas, and Missouri are all resisting the Department of Justice’s long-standing practice of monitoring polling sites to ensure …
Read More »DOJ Warns Elon Musk’s Super PAC Over Daily $1M Giveaway in Battleground States
Jimmy Williams The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a warning to Elon Musk’s super PAC, America PAC, over its controversial $1 million daily giveaway in key battleground states. The DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, which handles election-related cases, has raised concerns that the super PAC’s initiative could violate federal election …
Read More »DOJ Sues Alabama Over Voter Roll Purge Ahead of Election
Jimmy Williams The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Alabama and its Secretary of State, Wes Allen, on Friday, alleging that the state’s effort to remove voters from its rolls was taking place too close to the Nov. 5 general election in violation of federal law. Under …
Read More »DOJ Says It’ll Sue If Texas Enforces New Law Punishing Illegal Border Crossing
Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened to sue to stop a new Texas law that allows state police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border — unless Gov. Greg Abbott backs off of enforcing the law. The new law, known as Senate …
Read More »Justice Department Asks Supreme Court To Take Up Abortion Pill Case
Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the abortion pill should remain on the market after two lower courts issued differing opinions about its use. The case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will …
Read More »U.S. Sues Texas After Gov. Greg Abbott Declines To Remove Floating Border Barrier
Noah Alcala Bach, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday it is suing Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott after the state declined to remove the floating barrier deployed earlier this month on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The lawsuit, filed in an Austin federal court, alleges the …
Read More »DOJ Threatens Texas With Legal Action Over Floating Barrier In Rio Grande
Rebecca Schneid, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Justice Department has threatened legal action against Gov. Greg Abbott over the 1,000-foot floating barrier that the state deployed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass earlier this month. “We write to inform you … that the United States intends to file legal …
Read More »Department of Justice Asks Appeals Court To Pause Abortion Pill Ruling
Jennifer Shutt, South Dakota Searchlight The federal government on Monday asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to place on hold a Texas judge’s ruling that would otherwise overturn U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill. The Department of Justice’s request for an administrative stay asks the …
Read More »Biden DOJ Sues Norfolk Southern for ‘Unlawfully Polluting the Nation’s Waterways’
The Biden administration on Friday took its latest step to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the disaster continuing to unfold in East Palestine, Ohio and the surrounding area, filing a lawsuit against the rail company for sending toxic chemicals into the environment. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the …
Read More »DOJ Sues Rite Aid, Says It Ignored ‘obvious red flags’ In Opioid Prescriptions
The U.S. government is suing Rite Aid, alleging that the pharmacy chain missed “obvious red flags” and illegally filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances, including opioids. The Justice Department complaint states that from 2014 to 2019, Rite Aid pharmacists knowingly filled prescriptions that were “medically unnecessary,” prescribed …
Read More »Justice Department Sues Google To Break Up Online Advertising Dominance
On Tuesday, the Justice Department, along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia, filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. The complaint …
Read More »White House Says DOJ Had ‘unprecedented access’ To Biden Home During Search
Ashley Murray, Arizona Mirror Department of Justice officials had “unprecedented access” to every room in President Joe Biden’s Delaware home Friday during a search that followed several days of disclosures that classified material from the Obama era had been found in Biden’s garage and think tank office, White House officials …
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