The agency has some difficult questions to answer The post Why did the FBI spy on Republican Senators? appeared first on The Spectator World.| The Spectator World
When the peer-to-peer site Napster unleashed digital audio on the web, the record industry couldn’t move fast enough. It took about a year and a half for the first major lawsuit to shut the service down. The battle was won, but the war for control over music distribution was irrevocably lost. Today, the publishing industry […] The post Stop Debating And Start Acting: A Unified Front Against AI Is Publishers’ Only Hope appeared first on AdExchanger.| AdExchanger
Litigation, merger reviews, and permitting all set to slow| Broadband Breakfast
New York — The clash between legal process and political theatre narrowed to a few lines on a mortgage form, and then widened again to fill a national stage. Hours after a grand jury in Alexandria returned an indictment, New York’s attorney general stood accused of presenting a Virginia home purchase in ways that, prosecutors […]| The Eastern Herald
Trump’s former border czar Tom Homan threatens a migrant crackdown in NYC. Explore the political battle over immigration policies and enforcement.| amNewYork
U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigns amid fallout from the Adams indictment. Get the latest on the legal and political implications of her departure.| amNewYork
In late 2025, a voter lawsuit in South Carolina challenged data transfer to the DOJ over privacy concerns, resulting in a circuit court denying a temporary injunction and enabling data release.| Operation Disclosure Official
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
The Hatch Act of 1939 is a beautiful piece of legislation. It disallows all kinds of things, like bribing voters with jobs to vote a certain way, as well as limiting any campaign activity by federal workers. Another thing it does is to prohibit partisan political activity in the course of a staff member’s federal […]| Techdirt
For years now, the MAGA crowd has been absolutely convinced that the Biden administration engaged in the most egregious censorship campaign in American history. They’ve waved around the Murthy v. Missouri case as proof that Biden officials illegally pressured tech companies to remove content (even as the Supreme Court concluded there wasn’t even enough evidence […]| Techdirt
It’s the beginning of a new year for some of us, so let me wish all of you a good year, and a sweet year, even if you don’t know what I’m talking about. Private Anticompetitive Censorship Continued? Turning back to the agency beat: in a Sept. 7 guest essay in The New York Times, ... Antitrust at the Agencies: Happy New Year 5786 Edition The post Antitrust at the Agencies: Happy New Year 5786 Edition appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
Plus, we have law professor Rory Little on the podcast to discuss his warning that a SCOTUS immigration ruling could have far-reaching implications for gun owners.| The Reload
Under a February executive order to defend the Second Amendment, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under Trump continues to be much more of a friend to gun-rights advocates in matters concerning any government's gun laws but its own.| The Reload
The Justice Department was caught deleting a study conducted by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and hosted on a DOJ website proving that right-wing violence poses a “far” greater threat than left-wing extremism. The report was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved in the […] The post Department of Justice deletes study on politics of domestic terrorists first appeared on Free Government Information (FGI).| Free Government Information (FGI)
A series of attempts by President Trump’s Justice Department to access voter roll information is prompting increasing alarm from election...| TPM – Talking Points Memo
Just weeks after Skydance Media completed its acquisition of Paramount Global, the new company is reportedly preparing a majority cash bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in its entirety, including its cable networks and movie studio. A Skydance-Warner combination could reshape the global entertainment landscape. Backed by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison’s substantial family ... Scale or Fail: Why Paramount Skydance’s Warner Bros Gambit Makes Economic Sense The post Scale o...| Truth on the Market
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta’s Sept. 2 remedies opinion in the U.S. v. Google monopolization (Google Search) case is, in large part, a rejection of government regulation of digital platforms in the guise of antitrust. The limited and cabined conduct-related remedies it imposes are far less significant than its rejection of the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) proposed conduct ... The Google Remedies Decision and Big Tech Antitrust The post The Google Remedies Decision and Big T...| Truth on the Market
Cartel collusion among competitors is widely seen as the “supreme evil of antitrust,” and for more than three decades, competition-law enforcers in the United States and abroad have cooperated to ferret out cartel activity. Beginning in the 1990s, major jurisdictions started to emphasize highly effective “leniency” agreements to get cartel members to inform on their ... Paying Whistleblowers to Take Down Cartels The post Paying Whistleblowers to Take Down Cartels appeared first on Tru...| Truth on the Market
This Just In Judge Amit P. Mehta’s memorandum opinion in the Google Search case has dropped. It’s 230 pages, and I’ve merely skimmed it. A careful discussion–from me or anyone else–will wait a bit. For now, the remedies are quite a bit more than Google had proposed, but at the same time, a good deal ... Antitrust at the Agencies: Moderation in All Things Edition The post Antitrust at the Agencies: Moderation in All Things Edition appeared first on Truth on the Market.| Truth on the Market
Plus, KE Arms’ Russel Phagan joins the podcast to discuss the recent decline in AR sales.| The Reload
In an Aug. 15 announcement, the White House and U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) pledged to undertake “an effort to identify State laws that significantly and adversely impact the national economy or interstate economic activity and to solicit solutions to address such effects.” This project complements the White House’s earlier April 9 executive order directing the federal antitrust agencies ... New Regulatory Reform Initiative Could Bolster Trade Negotiations The post New Regulatory R...| Truth on the Market
Charter Communications Inc. and Cox Communications Inc.—both providers of cable and broadband—are seeking approval of their proposed merger from the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC). While the prior administration’s enforcement agencies—who often relied on static market-share snapshots to pursue antitrust claims and failed to consider broader market dynamics—might have sued to block this ... Charter/Cox Merger Review and the Rule of Law The...| Truth on the Market
In United States v. Chastain, No. 23-7038, 2025 WL 2165839 (2d Cir. July 31, 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated wire| Law of The Ledger
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!
On July 18th, 2025, UChicago Medicine released a statement announcing its immediate termination of “all gender-affirming pediatric care” due to “federal actions.” Before the halt, UChicago Medicine’s Clinic for Affirmation and Reproductive Equity (Trans CARE) provided services such as “gender-affirming hormone therapy” and “puberty blocking therapy” to pediatric patients identifying as transgender or gender non-conforming. […]| The Chicago Thinker
A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.| BuzzFeed News
In a surprising move, the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has thrown its weight behind a lawsuit that could reshape how courts—and antitrust enforcers—think about competition in digital media. The agency’s statement of interest filed last month in Children’s Health Defense v. Washington Post doesn’t merely take up the legal merits of a questionable ... Truth Cartels? The DOJ’s Misguided Leap into Viewpoint Regulation The post Truth Cartels? The DOJ’s Misguid...| Truth on the Market
The second Trump administration has been signaling a move away from the Biden administration’s policy of actively discouraging mergers. This change in direction could benefit the U.S. economy. But some merger uncertainty remains, rooted in the administration’s decision to retain 2023 merger guidelines. Targeted revisions to those guidelines—or, at the very least, public pronouncements designed ... Reducing Merger Uncertainty Could Help the American Economy The post Reducing Merger Uncer...| Truth on the Market
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
ANALYSIS: Occam’s prevails to indicate that Waltz is entirely unfit for the duties of US National Security Advisor because he is an insider threat guilty of leaking in operations serving his IC/DoD/NATO/State principal.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: Putting aside the oxymoronic nature of the following, the only acceptable reason for a full and unconditional pardon for Devon Archer would be on the condition that Archer serve as State's witness in its prosecution of the Biden Crime Family.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: The Crossfire Hurricane documentary evidence stands to tell a potentially unvarnished truth about the actual nature of treasonous criminality surrounding FISA/FISC abuses that targeted a presidential candidate and later President of the United States of America.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: On Friday, the Trump Administration published two documents detailing its counter to activist judges in an otherwise rigged Judiciary & it's going to be difficult to MAGA unless MAGA stands for Make America Grim Again.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: Trump issues Executive Order barring schools from mandating COVID-19 injections or lose federal funding. Good first step, far from enough.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: Trump issues critical foreign policy changes impacting RICO crimes in important, distinct and nuanced ways.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirms RICO analysis asserting that Ukraine never received $102b of $177b in US aid.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: It's the type of quiet that most certainly guarantees that the hell we projected to come our way is still coming; albeit late on arrival.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
ANALYSIS: Through the lens of RICO and Throckmorton, Joe Biden's preemptive pardons aren't worth the paper upon which they're written.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
Crime data analyst Jeff Asher joins the podcast to update us on some good news: the murder rate is sliding toward all-time lows.| 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
Companies with international operations face a delicate balancing act following the executive order pausing FCPA enforcement. Kirk Foster of HII| Corporate Compliance Insights
A federal judge in southern Illinois has ordered five Mississippi men to pay nearly $120,000 in fines and restitution after they admitted to....| AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
The federal antitrust agencies appear to be easing up on merger enforcement, ditching a Biden administration policy of discouraging mergers. This change in direction could promote enhanced American innovation and economic growth. M&A Economic Benefits Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) generate various major economic benefits: They reallocate badly managed commercial assets to higher-valued uses, raising business ... M&A Enforcement Easing Under the Trump Administration The post M&A Enforcement E...| Truth on the Market
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division filed a statement of interest late last week in a private antitrust case brought against a number of major news publishers by, among others, the Children’s Health Defense—the organization previously chaired by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nominally, the DOJ’s statement can be ... Antitrust and Collusion on Regulating Misinformation: Thoughts on the DOJ’s Statement of Interest The post Antitrust an...| Truth on the Market
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched a public inquiry into technology platform censorship. Digital-platform censorship clearly raises serious policy concerns. Nevertheless, before filing lawsuits, the FTC and its fellow enforcement agency, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) will need to factor in platforms’ First Amendment protections and limitations on agency statutory authority. Bringing platform-censorship cases may ... Competition Law and Technology-Platform Censorship T...| Truth on the Market
Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and outgoing U.S. attorney for New Jersey, isn’t going away quietly, according to White House insiders who say Trump has hatched a plan to keep her as a top prosecutor after liberal judges declined to officialize her position. On Tuesday Habba suffered a stinging rebuke when a coterie […]| Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary
Questions still linger about an investigation into cocaine use by a Democratic governor from long ago. Now, the U.S. Justice Department is preparing to reopen the investigation months after she publicly rebuked President Donald Trump during a face-to-face encounter. Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills is at the center of a growing probe into allegations that she […]| Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary
By Fred Vogelstein There’s going to be ever building momentum in the coming months to take one of the most innovative companies in American history – Google – and blow it up. The company has been judged an illegal monopolist in two Federal courts. And the rulings, when read together, paint a picture of a […]| Crazy Stupid Tech
Last week’s “listening session” on pharmaceutical competition, hosted jointly by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), may go down as an important precursor to the Trump administration’s promised campaign to lower drug prices. While billed as a fact-finding exercise, the discussion revealed competing visions to reform the U.S. pharmaceutical ecosystem, with ... First Impressions from the DOJ/FTC Listening Session on Drug-Price Competition The post First...| Truth on the Market
Recent U.S. executive branch actions point to enhanced support for patent rights. This could help accelerate American innovation in a time of growing international competition. Background As I explained in a previous Forbes article: The United States has the world’s largest and most innovative economy, and our patent law framework has played a major role in ... Strong Support for Patent Rights Could Promote US Innovation| Truth on the Market
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
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced April 14 that it has “launched a public inquiry into the impact of federal regulations on competition, with the goal of identifying and reducing anticompetitive regulatory barriers.” A request for public comment (RPC) on the inquiry has also been published in the Federal Register. Bravo. The inquiry will not ... Back to the Future (of Competition Research and Advocacy)| Truth on the Market
All eyes are on the DOJ Bulk Sensitive Data Rule (28 C.F.R. Part 202), and July 8, 2025, when the recently announced good-faith safe harbor expires. The rule, which the Department of Justice now refers to as the Data Security Program (the “DSP”), creates a comprehensive export control regime to restrict the transfer of bulk [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
DOJ Issues Landmark Rules on Sensitive Data On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued the “Final Rule on Preventing Access to Sensitive Data,” creating a comprehensive export control regime to restrict the transfer of bulk sensitive personal and government-related data to foreign adversaries deemed threats to U.S. national security.[1] The rule [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 11 Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2024 by page views. If you are not already a Blog subscriber, click here to sign up. Good AI Vendor Risk Management Is Hard, But Doable (September 26, 2024) As companies slowly [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
On October 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that The Pennsylvania State University (“Penn State”), a public university in University Park, Pennsylvania, agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (the “FCA”). Specifically, Penn State allegedly failed to meet cybersecurity requirements in federal government contracts, [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
On September 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice updated its guidance to federal prosecutors related to the “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (the “ECCP”).[1] This revision, the first since March 2023, addresses how companies manage risks associated with new and emerging technology, including artificial intelligence, and expands on preexisting guidance regarding employee reporting channels, [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
Since January 1, 2022, all California organizations serving youth, including churches, have been required to meet minimum safety standards for the protection| Church Law Center
The DOJ has implemented sweeping new data security requirements affecting organizations well beyond traditional defense contractors. Alvarez & Marsal consultants| Corporate Compliance Insights
From the DOJ’s dismissal of its FCPA case against a pair of tech executives to its recent announcements that some| Corporate Compliance Insights
Trump deleted NLEAD, a federal police misconduct database. Data show it was mostly full of border and prison incidents.| theappeal.org
Justice Department drops indictment against Mayor Adams after Trump-era investigation. City leaders celebrate the end of the controversial case.| amNewYork
University at Buffalo School of Law professor Tanya Monestier, in an exclusive, lengthy and wide-ranging interview with RISMedia, explained that| RISMedia
Anytime a politician begins a sentence with “I am an advocate for the Second Amendment, but…” gun-rights advocates tend to turn a skeptical eye in their direction.| The Reload
President-elect Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee defended her record on gun policy during her confirmation hearing.| The Reload
The DOJ has raised the bar for corporate compliance programs, with recent updates demanding new attention to AI risks and| Corporate Compliance Insights
The Appeal and other news outlets spent years reporting on dangerous conditions inside Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail.| theappeal.org
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around| RISMedia
Nestled within the Biden administration’s recent, sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a small, rather oblique paragraph that has garnered little attention to date. Appearing as Section 5(d), it urges the Attorney General and the … The post Biden Administration Signals Reversal Of Delrahim Position on Standards Essential Patents appeared first on ConsortiumInfo.org.| ConsortiumInfo.org
Recently resurfaced video footage shows Kamala Harris vowing to crack down on free speech if she's installed as president.| National File
Rolf Hazlehurst, a Children’s Health Defense staff attorney and father of a son diagnosed with autism, today filed a motion in federal court alleging lawyers representing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fraudulently concealed and misrepresented evidence that vaccines can cause autism. By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. This article was originally published by The Defender […]| Children's Health Defense Tennessee Chapter
According to a filing in federal court today, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is planning to appeal to the| RISMedia
While the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) may be celebrating its latest win against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),| RISMedia
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: Follow-up Analysis/3: Confirmations and 7 new developments.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: Follow-up Analysis/2: Confirmations and 14 new developments.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
INTENSELY DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: Internal security breach, deliberate stand-down, inside job.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
Back in March 2023, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against Terren Peizer, formerly the executive chair of Ontrak, Inc., representing the first time, according to the press release, that the DOJ bro…| Cooley PubCo
ANALYSIS: The Intelligence Community must take all of the Cloward-Piven destruction, package it up, dump it into Joe’s container and then flush Joe for good. The rest is scripted entertainmen…| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
POST-DEBATE ANALYSIS: Unlike everyone else now engaged in post-debate clamoring about replacing Joe Biden, I identified, analyzed and published scores of articles precisely projecting what you saw …| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
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
Las agencias de competencia y los tribunales que deciden sobre estos casos deberían, idealmente, actuar “más como plomeros que como ingenieros”, eliminando barreras estratégicas a la competencia an…| MARIO ZÚÑIGA
ANALYSIS: Asset House Speaker Mike Johnson and the House advance a bill to preserve the FISA/FISC surveillance instrument for the Intelligence Community.| POLITICAL MOONSHINE
