The Ninth Circuit handed the Trump administration a legal defeat Wednesday, ruling the Justice Department does not have the authority to withhold federal grant money from sanctuary cities. A three-judge panel said the fundamental separation of powers enshrined in the U.S. Constitution bars the executive branch from refusing to disburse grants without explicit permission from […]
Judge Shoots Down Bid to Muzzle Trump on Leaks Case…
A federal judge on Thursday shot down an unprecedented bid by an ex-Senate intelligence committee staffer to prevent President Donald Trump from talking publicly about the staffer’s criminal case. Attorneys for the staffer, James Wolfe, had strongly objected to comments the president made the day after their client’s arrest on June 7 calling Wolfe “a […]
Nunes: House Intel Probing Whether Informants Gathered Data on Trump, Russia Prior to Authorized Probe…
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) revealed in an interview on Thursday on “Rising” that the committee is probing whether the FBI sent informants to gather dirt on President Trump and possible ties to Russia prior to the authorized investigation, which was launched in July 2016. “It’s one of the outstanding questions that we have […]
Redacted Sections of Carter Page FISAs Are ‘Really Bad’ for FBI…
Meadows Backs Off Impeaching Rosenstein After Leadership Talks…
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) says he is tabling his efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after having several meetings with Republican leadership, stating that he would instead pursue contempt if the Justice Department (DOJ) does not turn over documents Congress is seeking. While the impeachment option remains on the table, Meadows told reporters […]
Sessions Defends His Deputy AG…
One FBI Text Message in Russia Probe That Should Alarm Every American by John Solomon…
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the reported FBI lovebirds, are the poster children for the next “Don’t Text and Investigate” public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you. Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the […]
Six States, NYC Sue DOJ Over Sanctuary City Funding Threat…
A coalition of six states led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block what they characterized as the Justice Department’s overreaching efforts to punish so-called sanctuary jurisdictions by conditioning federal funding on compliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The filing of the lawsuit came the same day that […]
Clinging to Collusion: Why Evidence Will Probably Never Be Produced in the Indictments of ‘Russian Agents’ by Joe Lauria…
Mueller Reveals Tenuous Link Between Manafort Charges and Trump…
It’s often been observed that special counsel Robert Mueller, assigned to investigate alleged Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign, has yet to charge anyone with a crime involving Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign. The biggest of Mueller’s indictments, that of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, has no connection at all to […]
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