Critics Slam DOJ’s “Politically Motivated” Charges Against NY AG Letitia James
The charges come weeks after Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi target James for prosecution.| Articles – Truthout
Police are investigating a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. The post TIME Magazine: Investigation ‘Ongoing’ After House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
In a court filing, the groups argued court action was needed to prevent permanent privacy harm from the government’s “illegal and secretive consolidation of millions of Americans’ sensitive personal data.” The post Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul appeared first on CyberScoop.| CyberScoop
The charges come weeks after Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi target James for prosecution.| Articles – Truthout
The WSJ reports a Truth Social post was actually intended to be a direct message sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi.| Articles – Truthout
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to investigate the University's compliance with the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action.| The Stanford Daily
“We are determined to fight this with everything we have,” said the ICEBlock app’s developer, Joshua Aaron.| Articles – Truthout
By Art Jipson and Paul J. Becker Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to republish it here. After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they should be put in jail.” “The […]| Righting America
The third meeting of the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Commission examined a range of religious liberty issues. The post Religious freedom in nation’s schools examined by Religious Liberty Commission first appeared on OSV News.| OSV News
We need states’ rights, but we also need leaders who speak the truth. When platitudes are spewed by someone ignoring federal overreach, someone needs to call it out.| Arizona Capitol Times | Your Inside Source for Arizona Government, Politics a...
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) announced that, effective September 11, 2025, it is withdrawing several dozen Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRMs”), Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking, and Supplemental Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. The Department explained that it is “withdrawing these actions as part of the Federal Government’s deregulatory initiative and because... Continue Reading…| Inside Political Law
The evidence that Attorney General Letitia James committed fraud was so weak that the U.S. attorney quit rather than prosecute.| The Real Deal
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
District of Columbia sues Trump administration over unlawful deployment of National Guard troops, alleging threat to local self-government.| 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
The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system...| 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
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
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
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
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
