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‘LUDICROUS’: Rabbi Slams Latest Attempt to Defend SPLC Paying Klan Members
Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud,… -
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Ohio SOS LaRose Defends Sending Voter Data to DOJ
As the Trump administration continues to insist that states beef up election security, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is defending his role in sending voter data along to the federal government. In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice began requesting that states hand over statewide voter registration lists. The lists contain information such… -
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Justice Dept to Close Investigation of Federal Reserve Renovations, US Attorney Pirro Says
The Justice Department is closing its investigation into cost overruns in renovations at the Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on Friday. Pirro said the inspector general of the Federal Reserve has been asked to scrutinize the building costs. “The IG has the authority to hold the Federal Reserve accountable… -
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Democrats Beclown Themselves by Defending SPLC Amid KKK Funding Scandal
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which makes its money by exaggerating “hate” to scare donors and by comparing conservatives to the Ku Klux Klan, was itself funding Klan members—and now major Democrats are beclowning themselves by defending it. Like a dog returns to its vomit, so Democrats return to the ridiculous claim that the SPLC… -
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Trump DOJ Deploys $300 Million Special Prosecutor Force to Root Out Fraud
The Trump administration is upping its anti-fraud efforts with $300 million in funding to investigate and prosecute fraudsters and drug traffickers. The Justice Department announced the “Special Attorneys Program,” in which state, local, tribal, and territorial governments can apply for grants for a federal prosecutor to probe crimes in their jurisdictions. This is part of… -
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Trump Campaign Aide Wins DOJ Settlement After FBI Surveillance in Russia Probe
The Justice Department reached a settlement with Carter Page, a 2016 Trump campaign aide targeted for surveillance as part of a federal investigation into alleged collusion with Russia. The Associated Press cited a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity in saying the settlement was for $1.25 million. The Justice Department’s filing to the… -
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Trump Administration Is ‘Looking Beyond the SPLC’ to Broader ‘Marxist’ Network: Chip Roy
Rep. Chip Roy told The Daily Signal that the Justice Department’s indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, while a welcome move, represents just one step in a broader effort the administration has undertaken against leftist groups. “The indictments are an enormously important step forward and an indication that the administration is taking this seriously,”… -
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The SPLC Was Paying the Ku Klux Klan, DOJ Indictment Claims
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… -
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SPLC Under Criminal Investigation for Paid Informant Program
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center over its paid informant program, the SPLC announced Tuesday. Bryan Fair, the group’s interim president and CEO, said in a video statement that the SPLC faces “a criminal investigation and possible charges.” “Although we don’t know all the details, the focus appears… -
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Biden’s DOJ Colluded With Big Abortion to Prosecute Pro-Lifers
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… -
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Report: DOJ Probes Whether NFL Is Pricing Out Fans
The Justice Department opened an investigation into whether the National Football League engaged in anticompetitive practices, The Wall Street Journal first reported Thursday. The investigation follows growing concern from lawmakers and regulators that the NFL’s expanding web of cable and streaming deals has made it harder—and more expensive—for fans to watch games. Sen. Mike Lee,… -
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State AGs Are Right: DOJ Must Fix Its Ticketmaster Settlement
Voters reward politicians who make their lives better, even in small ways. Keeping your shoes on in the TSA line, a few hundred extra dollars in your federal tax refund, unnatural dyes removed from your kids’ cereal—Americans will remember these little improvements when they head to the polls in November. With the war in Iran… -
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DOJ Review of Voter Rolls Uncovers Alarming Names—and It’s Only the Beginning
The Justice Department is finding thousands of noncitizens and dead people on voter rolls as it pursues more state election records, said Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, in an interview. “We’re finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls,… -
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$10 Billion for Crime Victims Missing—Lawmakers Call for DOJ to Fix Biden-Era Failure
The Justice Department is missing out on collecting $10 billion from convicted criminals to go to crime victims, according to federal prosecutors. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, led a letter with four other Republican senators telling Attorney General Pam Bondi that “there appears to be billions of dollars right at the DOJ’s finger tips that could be collected.” Congress created the Crime… -
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They Disrupted a Congressman’s Event at a Jewish Center. Now the DOJ is Investigating.
The Department of Justice is investigating a disruptive protest of a Democrat congressman’s speaking engagement at a Jewish temple. On Jan. 27, protesters with the left-wing activist group Climate Defiance interrupted a constituent event of Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., at the Temple Beth Sholom in Roslyn, New York. Suozzi was one of seven Democrats to… -
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What Triggered Civil Rights Investigation Into Pretti Shooting?
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,… -
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DOJ Joins Lawsuit Accusing UCLA Med School of Unlawful Race-Based Admissions
The Justice Department is joining a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles medical school for alleged race-based admissions that it says violate a Supreme Court ruling. Last May, student groups sued the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA regarding the continued use of race in admission practices, despite a 2023 Supreme Court… -
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DEEP STATE CLEARS OUT: DOJ Staff Resignations Prove Harmeet Dhillon’s Real Worth
More than 200 former staff at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division signed a letter condemning Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and in doing so, they outed themselves as deep state actors and demonstrated Dhillon’s effectiveness in restoring the division to its true mission. The lawyers wrote to “sound the alarm about the near destruction… -
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Hans von Spakovsky Explains Why DOJ Rejection of Disparate Impact Matters
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday that the Justice Department will no longer have “disparate impact” regulations. “For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” Bondi said in a statement. “No longer. This… -
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Pro-Lifers Targeted by Biden DOJ Challenge Constitutionality of FACE Act
President Joe Biden's Department of Justice has demonstrated a pattern of selectively enforcing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-life individuals, attorneys representing indicted pro-life activists argue in new court filings. That selective enforcement violates the First Amendment, according to the court documents filed Wednesday in the United States District Court…