A letter from former special counsel Jack Smith’s lawyers went public Friday, calling Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) criminal referral a bad-faith attack on a “nonpartisan public servant.”Attorneys Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski wrote the letter July 22 to Jordan and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, ca…
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President Donald Trump on Friday proposed that LeBron James is “racist” simply because “he doesn’t like Trump.”Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump to settle the LeBron vs. Michael Jordan debate, prompted by James’s announcement that he is signing with the Philadelphia 7…
President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy made a damning admission in court — and it left one legal observer stunned.According to The New York Times, “federal officials acknowledged this month” in court documents that they rescinded $7.5 billion in clean energy grants “‘based solely’ on politica…
President Donald Trump and his administration have been secretly trying to manipulate the Census rules to exclude millions of immigrants and steal congressional seats, according to a new report from The Bulwark on Friday.The Bulwark’s economics editor Catherine Rampell cited a “vaguely ominous but l…
The Justice Department made a major retreat this week, withdrawing its controversial subpoenas against New York Times journalists intended to root out a leak.But the federal judge who strong-armed them into backing down isn’t finished with them quite yet.According to Lawfare’s Anna Bower, U.S. Distr…
Republicans heading home for their summer recess will now have to explain to their hometown voters what they have been doing in Washington, D.C. — and they are not happy about that.According to a Politico report, GOP lawmakers who spoke with the outlet after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent ev…
President Donald Trump vowed vengeance on Europe Friday. Trump, set off by news the American technology company Google had been fined more than $1 billion by the European Commission, promised to open an investigation into the European Union in a lengthy 200-plus-word rant.“The United States of Ameri…
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were put on notice on Friday by a highly respected conservative that even the thought of appointing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the post should make them sick. Washington Post columnist George Will argued Friday that Republicans owe no favors…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial plan to test service members’ testosterone levels may end up having an ironic side effect on male soldiers, two medical experts said in a new report. Dr. Adrian Dobs, a professor of medicine and oncology at John Hopkins University School of Medicine exp…
The Trump administration’s newly launched “mega master” court system has quickly devolved into mass chaos that leaves defendants, guards, lawyers and judges “terrified,” according to a new report. “Attorneys and former judges say mega master hearings serve as the latest tool for the Trump administra…