The Justice Department responded Tuesday after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint in federal district court demanding an apology from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for making allegedly false statements. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for allegedly paying members of the…
Former President Donald Trump’s defense attorney rebutted Michael Cohen’s testimony during a brutal cross-examination Thursday, which has legal commentators raising the possibility Cohen again committed perjury. Defense attorney Todd Blanche confronted Cohen on his past lies under oath, including to Congress and a federal judge, asking him whether he took the same oath before testifying…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche fielded questions before the Senate on Tuesday, a day after announcing an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” of almost $1.8 billion to pay out to victims of politicized lawfare. He also tackled other questions in his first appearance before Congress since becoming acting attorney general after the ouster of Attorney General Pam Bondi…
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—“Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo questioned acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday about the progress of probes into abuses of power targeting President Donald Trump. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in July released documents and a memo detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in…
WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday. The man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at…
Biden administration officials may have sought to dodge public records laws and congressional oversight by classifying taxpayer-backed loans to Planned Parenthood as “Benghazi,” according to findings by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. Ernst, chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee, has been investigating Small Business Administration loans to the nation’s largest abortion provider under the Paycheck…
The Trump administration is proposing almost three dozen new rules to scale back gun regulations that proliferated during the Biden administration. The 34 rules placed in the Federal Register on Wednesday included reversing a 2024 Biden administration rule that attempted to force firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at gun shows. Gun control…
After the Department of Justice unveiled charges against Raúl Castro, the former socialist leader of Cuba, Congress is divided between those eager to see the regime forcefully toppled and those who think America has its hands full with Iran. On Tuesday, it was revealed that a Florida grand jury has indicted Castro and five others…
A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty Thursday on all 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide “hush money” payments in 2016 to former pornographic movie actress Stormy Daniels. Upon leaving the courthouse, Trump called the trial a disgrace and said, “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights probe into the death of Alex Pretti in Minnesota, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Blanche confirmed the investigation during a press conference on Friday. “All that that means is that [Department of Homeland Security], as they’ve, as the secretary has said,…
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday published a new and final cache of millions of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, under a law passed in November that required the release of all Epstein-related records. Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said at a press conference that Friday’s batch of files…
President Donald Trump has removed Pam Bondi as attorney general, and tapped one of his former personal attorneys as a replacement. Trump announced on Truth Social on Thursday that he had named Todd Blanche, deputy attorney general who had previously represented Trump in cases regarding Stormy Daniels and classified documents, as Bondi’s replacement as acting…
The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal indictment handed down Tuesday. The SPLC claims it was funding informants inside the extremist groups. While the SPLC “purports to fight…
A former lawyer in the Biden Justice Department delivered the prosecution’s opening argument Monday in a Manhattan courthouse as the first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump got underway. “This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup,” former acting U.S. Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo, senior counsel to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin…
President Donald Trump shouldn’t be prevented from speaking about witnesses such as his former attorney Michael Cohen who publicly criticize him on a regular basis, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday morning considered allegations that Trump violated his gag order by, among other things, attacking witnesses like Cohen…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Reuters)—The U.S. Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former President Bill Clinton. The release was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress…
The Biden administration collaborated with pro-abortion groups in weaponizing law enforcement against pro-lifers, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department. Under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Biden-era Justice Department aggressively applied the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, against pro-life activists, the report says. The…
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday regarding removal proceedings against an immigrant legally in the United States, charged with counterfeiting. The case has the potential to affect the operations of Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and immigration courts, said Art Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center…
In a case over the removal of a Chinese national with a green card and criminal charges, a majority of Supreme Court justices appeared to lean toward the Trump administration Wednesday but pressed the government for clarity. The plaintiff in the case suing to block his removal is Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese national charged…
The Trump administration scored two legal victories this week in combating illegal immigration. Appeals courts cleared the way for building a Florida immigration detention center that President Donald Trump calls “Alligator Alcatraz” and halted a California law requiring agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to unmask. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday…