Federal contractors, grantees, borrowers, and others receiving federal funds face a variety of restrictions on their use of those funds for political purposes, including for lobbying. A new presidential memorandum issued last week by President Trump highlights one of those restrictions, 31 U.S.C. § 1352, also known as the Byrd Amendment, and singles out grantees for additional scrutiny... Continue Reading…| Inside Political Law
The Department of Justice is reportedly weighing a proposal to bar transgender people from owning firearms, a move that activists warn would do nothing to address the root causes of gun violence while further endangering an increasingly vulnerable community. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. Hudson Munoz, the gay executive director of Guns Down America, a nonprofit advocating for stronger gun safety laws and reduced gun prolifera...| Advocate.com
The Justice Department is considering new regulations that could restrict gun ownership for transgender people, following a deadly mass shooting at a Catholic church school in Minneapolis, in which the perpetrator has been reported to be trans, according to CNN. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. CNN, citing officials familiar with the discussions, reports that the department is exploring whether gender dysphoria could be classifi...| Advocate.com
Donald Trump has once again threatened to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship — something she believes is an attempt to distract from his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. "As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship," Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social. "She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!" Trump posted the message alongside an unflattering picture of O'Donnell, which she was quick to sh...| Advocate.com
The District of Columbia has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and other federal officials, alleging that the deployment of National Guard troops to patrol city streets is unlawful and threatens local self-government. The post D.C. Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Alleging Illegal Federal Takeover appeared first on The Washington Informer.| The Washington Informer
The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News President Donald Trump in early June did something that no president in American history had| Consortium News
Summary On August 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the formation of a cross-agency Trade Fraud Task Force in partnership with the| Regulatory Oversight
Spencer Churchill, an associate based in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Washington, D.C. office, has been appointed to serve as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). In his new position, he will advise on some of the most important and complex legal questions surrounding executive power and... Continue Reading| Regulatory Oversight
A unanimous three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just reissued its opinion upholding a possession of an unregistered suppressor charge against a Louisiana man.| The Reload
The Department of Justice just provided new insights into where it believes the Second Amendment's outer limits lie.| The Reload
The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system over its provision of transgender health care services...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
The DOJ blocked Spirit's merger with JetBlue in 2022 over concerns about market consolidation, but markets also consolidate when failing firms go bankrupt and exit.| Reason.com
The DOJ has just released transcripts and audio from two days of interviews last month with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who said that President Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody" while he and Epstein were associates, and that her father was an intelligence asset.| SHTF Plan
On June 11, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate issued a memorandum entitled Civil Division Enforcement Priorities (the “Memorandum”), outlining five areas of focus for Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Civil Division investigations and enforcement actions. Among these priorities is “combatting unlawful discriminatory practices in the private sector.” Referencing President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14173 (Ending...| Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
The policy comes in response to an executive order that advocates warned could harm up to 25 million people.| Truthout
By Matthew Holloway | A letter from Solicitor General of the United States D. John Sauer to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson has revealed that the Department of Justice is prepared to defend the removal of former Voice of America (VOA) Director Michael Abramowitz from his position. Abramowitz's removal was| AZ FREE NEWS - Your #1 Source for Arizona News & Politics!
The Department of Justice is pressuring San Francisco and other major California cities to release personal data on canceled voter registrations, raising legal and privacy questions.| www.kqed.org
Blacklock’s Holly Doan has posted a rather hysterical, histrionic, inaccurate,| EXCESS COPYRIGHT
After a minor change in a judge's order, the Trump administration arranged to move over a dozen transgender women to men's facilities.| The Marshall Project
By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education.| Mondoweiss
On July 29, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum titled “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination.” The memorandum purports to offer “guidance” and “Best Practices” to recipients of federal funding, including “non-binding suggestions to help entities comply with federal antidiscrimination laws and avoid legal pitfalls.” The Attorney General’s memorandum follows... Continue Reading…| Inside Political Law
Author: Steven Cernak On July 11, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a Statement of Interest in a private lawsuit alleging anticompetitive collusion among defendants like The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is calling on its members to lobby for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to revise its proposed gun-rights restoration process.| The Reload
The Department of Justice (DOJ) primed a challenge to silencer bans in a recent court filing, and now a coalition of gun-rights groups is trying to take advantage.| The Reload
A growing movement to ban price-fixing software for rental housing continues to spread across the United States. As a result of the RealPage scandal, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and recently Hoboken have passed ... The post Cities Across United States are Banning Price-Fixing Software for Rental Housing appeared first on Housing Is A Human Right.| Housing Is A Human Right
Author: Steven Cernak On July 11, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a Statement of Interest in a private lawsuit alleging anticompetitive collusion among defendants like The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
The Trump administration ditched a federal Department of Justice consent decree on the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.| UNICORN RIOT
Authors: Jack Prindle and Steve Cernak Note: Jack Prindle is a student at the University of Virginia School of Law joining Bona Law for the summer. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division would like to ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Jack Prindle and Steve Cernak Note: Jack Prindle is a student at the University of Virginia School of Law joining Bona Law for the summer. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division would like to ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
The Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity from the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Survey on Sexual Victimization, and the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails.| The Appeal
At least one trans woman in federal prison says Trump’s executive order has already prevented her from receiving hormone therapy, leading to “thoughts of suicide and self-harm.”| The Appeal
CoreCivic says inmates at a Tennessee prison sought to destroy property, compromised security cameras and set a few fires during a riot that took hours to contain and caused minor injuries to three inmates and one guard.| WPLN News
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Richland County Council is considering the implementation of a hate crime ordinance on June 3rd, 2025. Learn the details & what you can do...| Palmetto State Watch
Authorities said they froze and seized the allegedly illegally obtained funds when North Korean nationals attempted to launder money linked to the long-running conspiracy.| CyberScoop
The cybercrime marketplace was used by more than 117,000 customers and trafficked more than 15 million credit card numbers since March 2022, the Justice Department said.| CyberScoop
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas over a decades-old law that allows undocumented immigrants to receive The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas over a decades-old law that allows undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition at public universities. Within hours of the DOJ’s complaint, a federal judge ruled in the department’s favor, halting enforcement of the policy established by the 2001 Texas Dream ...| Texas Politics
Author: Steven Cernak Late last month, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater gave her first major policy address, entitled “The Conservative Roots of America First ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Late last month, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater gave her first major policy address, entitled “The Conservative Roots of America First ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
A serious step up in civil and criminal enforcement of customs laws, including tariff evasion, is imminent. In a May 12 memorandum, the Department of Justice’s new Chief of the Criminal Division, Matthew Galeotti, counted as one of the “most urgent” threats to the country “[t]rade and customs fraud, including tariff evasion.” Earlier in the Administration,... Continue Reading| Global Trade Law Blog
A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.| theappeal.org
By: Ashley S. Jenkins and Minh N. Vu Seyfarth synopsis: The Trump DOJ rescinded five COVID-19 related documents and six older guidance documents designed to educate businesses on the requirements of the ADA, claiming that the recission will reduce the burden on businesses to review them. On March 19, 2025, to comply with President Trump’s... Continue Reading| ADA Title III
One aspect of vulnerability intelligence is also doing a best-faith effort to track the threat actors that are using the vulnerabilities. While that information often isn’t published, when it…| Rants of a deranged squirrel.
Defenses of the president’s policies fall short if defenders don’t consider why he enacts them.| The Dispatch
Trump deleted NLEAD, a federal police misconduct database. Data show it was mostly full of border and prison incidents.| theappeal.org
Following the example of a principled conservative prosecutor.| The Dispatch
In memos released this week, Trump’s new attorney general rolled back Biden-era reforms and called for harsher sentences and more executions.| theappeal.org
University at Buffalo School of Law professor Tanya Monestier, in an exclusive, lengthy and wide-ranging interview with RISMedia, explained that| RISMedia
Russian man arrested for alleged involvement with LockBit ransomware gang - SiliconANGLE| SiliconANGLE
Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its usual annual announcement to increase the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds. The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
On the president’s unserious declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is suddenly law.| The Dispatch
President-elect Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee defended her record on gun policy during her confirmation hearing.| The Reload
The Appeal and other news outlets spent years reporting on dangerous conditions inside Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail.| theappeal.org
Despite offering a cautiously positive assessment of the settlement struck by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) late last month,| RISMedia
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order to remove more than 6,000 Virginians from the voter rolls has come under intense national scrutiny after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit challenging its legality. With just weeks until the Nov. 5 election, the suit has amplified concerns over voter disenfranchisement and the integrity of the state’s election process mirrored in other states leading up to the presidential contest.| Virginia Mercury
By Minh N. Vu and John W. Egan Seyfarth synopsis: Public accommodations planning to add EV charging stations to their properties should take note of| ADA Title III
The U.S. government announced indictments, seizures and sanctions against individuals they say were associated with a propaganda campaign targeting the 2024 election.| CyberScoop
Matthew Isaac Knoot, 38, allegedly assisted North Korean IT workers in getting hired by U.S. and British companies under false identities.| CyberScoop
The policy plan for a second Trump term would turn the department against progressive local prosecutors.| The Marshall Project
U.S. prosecutors say Rim Jong Hyok used ransom payments from American health care providers to steal military secrets.| CyberScoop
The U.S. House rejected fining Attorney General Merrick Garland for withholding audio tapes of an interview with President Joe Biden.| Kentucky Lantern
FBI officials say that software relying on AI to generate bot accounts was developed under a top editor at Russian state-owned news outlet RT.| CyberScoop
By Kristina M. Launey & Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Plaintiffs filed 2,794 website accessibility lawsuits in federal court in 2023 –| ADA Title III
Author: Luis Blanquez We recently wrote about the Federal Trade Commission’s blog post explaining how relying on a common algorithm to determine your pricing decisions might violate Section 1 of ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
By Kristina Launey and John W. Egan Seyfarth Synopsis: DOJ issues useful new Guide to help small governmental entities understand the new web and mobile| ADA Title III
U.S. agencies want to secure the Border Gateway Protocol, but experts question whether their approach could worsen security.| CyberScoop
On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, shook the nation. With just two days left in the school year, a former student armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle took| Public Intelligence
The scandal-plagued software company has hired a trio of Capitol Hill insiders to fend off regulatory scrutiny from Congress.| Revolving Door Project
This article was originally published in The American Prospect. Read on the original site here. In the last three years, a cadre of dedicated Biden appointees has worked vigorously to check corporate power and improve ordinary Americans’ lives. And this group has been wildly successful, much to the chagrin of corporations, and apparently some of their […]| Revolving Door Project
Price Gouging Has Been Enabled Through Decades Of Unchecked Corporate Consolidation. The Strike Force Will Protect Consumers From Unfair Pricing And Unbridled Corporate Power.| Revolving Door Project