Justice Thomas Did Not Call for Dropping Trump Charges

The Trump administration used the same law to charge more than 30 people over a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in January at a church service in St. Paul, Minn. Among those was the former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who has denied wrongdoing and said he was there covering the event as a journalist. The Justice Department’s efforts to end what it calls “weaponization” of law enforcement have moved on multiple tracks, some faster than others.

“I expect a defensive approach that follows what the law strictly requires, not what justice demands,” Olivarius said of DoJ’s future treatment of these files. “However, he [Blanche] will not be operating in a vacuum and congressional oversight will be critical. Bipartisan pressure is real and growing, and the House oversight committee’s plan to call co-conspirators to testify is significant here.”

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DOJ official Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote that she is seeking ballots to investigate election law compliance. Democratic state officials call the request baseless.

CASA's complaint suggested both Boasberg and Howell were improperly looped into discussions about investigative "strategizing" before charges against Trump were brought. At the time, Boasberg was the incoming chief judge of D.C.'s federal court and Howell the outgoing chief judge. CASA filed a similar complaint about Howell last week, Fox News Digital confirmed. The Republican watchdog called for the court to investigate Boasberg. "While the facts strongly suggest that Boasberg violated the canons of judicial ethics, investigation should be promptly opened to confirm," Curtis Schube, CASA director of research and policy, wrote.

A survey by Georgetown University reveals how President Trump has controlled information and upended the norms of White House reporting.

6 conduct, including that speech and many of his social media posts that day, according to the judge. But Mehta said Trump cannot be held liable for his official acts that day, including his Rose Garden remarks during the riot and his interactions with Justice Department officials.

In cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis, residents have taken to the streets to oppose the militarized immigration sweeps, enforcement tactics and violence of ICE and Border Patrol under President Trump’s second term. A new ProPublica and Frontline investigation looks at law enforcement’s heavy-handed response to these protests, resulting in legally dubious charges that later unravel. “The Department of Justice was labeling the people who were in the streets as domestic terrorists, as agitators, as extremists.

Mueller's final report in March 2019 found that Russia interfered in 2016 to favor Trump and that Trump and his campaign welcomed and encouraged the effort, but that the evidence "did not establish" that Trump campaign members conspired or coordinated with Russia. Trump claimed the report exonerated him despite Mueller writing that it did not. The report also detailed potential obstruction of justice by Trump but "did not draw ultimate conclusions" and left the decision to charge the laws to Congress.