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 »DOJ Sues to Block ‘Blatantly Anti-Competitive’ JetBlue-Spirit Airlines Merger
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Consumer and labor advocates on Tuesday welcomed a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit seeking to block JetBlue’s proposed $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines, its biggest competitor, a deal that critics say would harm passengers and workers. The Department of Justice (DOJ), along with the …
Read More »Federal Judge Could Decide As Soon As February To Yank Abortion Pill Nationwide
Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance January 23, 2023 WASHINGTON — A Texas judge appointed by former President Donald Trump could decide as soon as next month whether to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull its two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill, which accounts for more than half of …
Read More »Feds Won’t Seek Death Penalty Against Alleged El Paso Walmart Gunman
Robert Moore, El Paso Matters The federal government will not seek the death penalty for the man accused of massacring 23 people in a hate crime at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. “The United States of America hereby notifies the Court and Defendant PATRICK …
Read More »DOJ Suit Accuses Major Drug Distributor of Fueling US Opioid Crisis
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams The Biden administration on Thursday filed suit against one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, AmerisourceBergen, and two of its subsidiaries for allegedly violating federal law and contributing to the opioid epidemic. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the complaint …
Read More »Siding With DOJ, Appeals Court Rules Trump Judge ‘Abused’ Discretion by Halting Criminal Probe
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled unanimously Wednesday that Judge Aileen Cannon—a Trump appointee—”abused” her discretion by barring the U.S. Department of Justice from proceeding with its criminal investigation into the former president’s removal of classified documents from the White House. In a scathing 29-page …
Read More »The Justice Department’s Dilemma Over Prosecuting Politicians Before An Election
Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond As the 2022 midterm campaigns approach Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022, a federal probe into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is testing an unwritten policy of the U.S. Justice Department. Some legal analysts have suggested that the so-called 60-day …
Read More »Texan Who Prosecutors Say “lit the match” Of Jan. 6 Riot Sentenced To More Than 7 Years In Prison
Eric Neugeboren, The Texas Tribune Guy Reffitt, a Texan who prosecutors said “lit the match” of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 7 1/4 years in prison on Monday, the longest sentence of any rioter to date but less than what the Justice Department had …
Read More »‘Just say the election was corrupt’: Trump Pressure On Justice Department Detailed
by Jacob Fischler, Nebraska Examiner President Donald Trump sought to use the U.S. Justice Department to create the illusion of a legitimate investigation into the validity of the 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 committee and former Justice Department leaders said Thursday in the panel’s fifth hearing this month. In …
Read More »Buffalo Shooting Suspect Charged With Federal Hate Crimes
The gunman accused of killing ten people in a Buffalo, New York supermarket has been charged with hate crimes by the U.S. Department of Justice. Authorities believe that suspect Payton Gendron, 18, was motivated by racial hatred. Almost all the victims in the shooting were black. He now faces 26 …
Read More »Justice Department Will Review Uvalde Response As Furor Mounts Over Law Enforcement Actions
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Department of Justice will review the law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school massacre as local police face intense scrutiny for not acting quickly enough to confront the shooter. “The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law …
Read More »Justice Department Directs Agents To Intervene If They See Police Violence
Attorney General Merrick Garland has revised rules governing the use of force by law enforcement agencies overseen by the Justice Department, requiring federal agents to intervene when they see officials using excessive force or mistreating people in custody. The memo states that the department’s policy is to “value and preserve …
Read More »Three Men Plead Guilty To Plotting White Supremacist Attack On Power Grid
by Jake Zuckerman, Missouri Independent February 24, 2022 Three men pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges after admitting plans to attack the power grid “in furtherance of white supremacist ideology,” according to documents unsealed Wednesday. Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of West Lafayette, Indiana, …
Read More »Congressional Black Caucus Urges DOJ To Act To Protect Voting Rights
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, and Congressman Mondaire Jones led over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to aggressively protect voting rights and fight against disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, voter purges, and other forms of voter suppression, vote dilution, and election subversion. “These …
Read More »AG Garland Announces DOJ Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking
On Monday, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland released the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. Rooted in the foundational pillars and priorities of the interagency National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, which President Biden released in December, the Justice Department’s National Strategy is …
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