JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Money laundering, tax evasion, acting as a foreign agent, now witness tampering. Special counsel Robert Mueller has turned up the heat on Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, threatening new criminal charges and asking a judge to put him in jail while he awaits trial…The Justice Department appointed […]
Category: Justice Department
6/5/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [6-5-18] leveled his latest broadside against his own Justice Department and attorney general, lamenting on Twitter that someone other than Jeff Sessions could have avoided ‘so much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined’ by the special counsel’s probe into possible collusion between […]
6/5/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration has put its search for the Justice Department’s No. 3 official on the back burner after failing to persuade several early candidates to take the challenging position, according to people familiar with the matter. The delay in filling the post is the latest sign of the […]
6/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PARDONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, ramping up his assertions of extraordinary powers, declared in a tweet on Monday [6-4-18] that he had ‘the absolute right’ to pardon himself for any crime. While no president has ever attempted to pardon himself, and it is not clear whether Mr. Trump could legitimately take such a step, […]
6/4/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump claims an ‘absolute right’ to pardon himself, top Democratic lawmakers are countering with their own message: ‘You are not a king.’ ‘The restoration of King George lll without his splendid education,morals,or grace,’ Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted, linking to […]
6/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed Monday [6-4-18] that the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller is ‘totally unconstitutional’ and asserted that he had the ‘absolute right’ to pardon himself, citing ‘numerous legal experts.’ The president added, in a pair of tweets, ‘but why would I do that when I have done […]
6/4/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Sunday [6-3-18] questioned why the Justice Department or FBI did not notify him during the campaign that Paul Manafort was under investigation, insisting that Manafort would have never been hired if he had known…In a second tweet, Trump downplayed Manafort’s role on his campaign, saying […]
6/3/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As only one of two people left who could become President, why wouldn’t the FBI or Department of ‘Justice’ have told me that they were secretly investigating Paul Manafort (on charges that were 10 years old and had been previously dropped) during my campaign? Should have told me!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/2/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There was No Collusion with Russia (except by the Democrats). When will this very expensive Witch Hunt Hoax ever end? So bad for our Country. Is the Special Counsel/Justice Department leaking my lawyers letters to the Fake News Media? Should be looking at Dems corruption instead?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, […]
6/2/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There was No Collusion with Russia (except by the Democrats). When will this very expensive Witch Hunt Hoax ever end? So bad for our Country. Is the Special Councel/Justice Department leaking my lawyers letters to the Fake News Media? Should be looking at Dems corruption instead?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, […]
6/1/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department has spent roughly $17 million investigating Russian meddling in the presidential election since last May, according to a new spending report released Thursday [5-31-18]. The department previously said $6.7 million had been spent from May 2017 through September 2017. Thursday’s expenditure report shows new costs of approximately […]
6/1/2018
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PARDONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal appeals court judge is challenging his colleagues’ decision to appoint a special prosecutor to defend a district court judge’s handling of a pardon President Donald Trump issued last year to former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a contempt-of-court charge. An unidentified member of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals objected […]
5/31/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and any coordination with President Donald Trump’s campaign has cost more than $16 million so far. That’s according to a financial report released Thursday [5-31-18] by the Justice Department. The investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller accounted for nearly […]
5/31/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating suspected Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election spent $4.5 million between October last year and March 2018, the Department of Justice said on Thursday [5-31-18]. In addition, other Justice Department ‘components’ spent $5.476 million on activities supporting the investigation, the department said […]
5/29/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s first battle with Donald Trump came in the 1990s, when the future president sought federal money for a project that would have benefited one of his developments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Mr. Nadler, a New York Democrat, opposed the subsidies and had them stripped from […]
5/25/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SALLY YATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is alarmed by President Donald Trump’s call for the Department of Justice to investigate whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…Trump issued his demand for the inquiry by Twitter on Sunday 5-20-18] following reports that the FBI dispatched […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump suggested Friday [5-25-18] that an FBI informant who made contact with his campaign during the 2016 election was ‘paid a fortune,’ boosting the unsubstantiated allegation a ‘spy’ was implanted in his campaign for political purposes…Trump over the past week has hammered officials in the Department of Justice […]
5/24/2018
DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Senate and House party leaders and Intelligence Committee leaders from both parties will be briefed Thursday [5-24-18] on whether an informant was embedded in President Donald Trump’s campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. The briefing comes after complaints from Senate Democrats and some Republicans about the adminstration’s […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senior Justice Department and FBI officials are set to brief lawmakers Thursday [5-24-18] afternoon about a confidential informant used in the early stages of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, scrambling to accommodate Democrats who had complained that the briefing would be a GOP-only affair. Late Wednesday […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused federal investigators of using a spy inside his campaign, repeating unconfirmed claims and saying it could be one of the ‘biggest political scandals in history!’ The president also gave the scandal a name: ‘SPYGATE.’ But hours later, Mr. Trump slightly backed off the accusations, telling reporters, ‘I […]
5/23/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top House ally of President Donald Trump said Wednesday [5-23-18] he expects the Justice Department will refuse to share the information that House Republicans have sought regarding an FBI informant that made contact with the Trump campaign. ‘They’re not going to see any documents tomorrow, so it doesn’t […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense is going after one of special counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies in a bid to persuade a federal judge to order a hearing into leaks to the media. In a court filing Monday [5-21-18] night, Manafort’s attorneys singled out prosecutor Andrew Weissmann over […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A New York taxi kingpin and business partner of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has agreed to cooperate with the government, The New York Times reported Tuesday [5-22-18]. The Times said the agreement for Evegny ‘Gene’ Freidman would allow him to avoid jail time and would have him work with […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is pointing to a recent agreement between Justice Department officials and the White House to investigate the use of a confidential source sent to speak with Trump campaign aides as an attack on the department’s independence…After a meeting at the […]
5/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation into the F.B.I.’s scrutiny of his campaign contacts with Russia, he inched further toward breaching an established constraint on executive power: The White House does not make decisions about individual law enforcement investigations…Almost since he took office, Mr. […]
5/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he will ‘demand’ that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came hours before his legal team said the special counsel indicated the investigation into the president could be concluded by September…Trump’s demand puts further pressure on the […]
5/21/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility of the escalating investigations targeting him and his associates. The blizzard of Twitter messages combined with a string […]
5/21/2018
DEVIN NUNES/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Monday [5-21-18] praised Rep. Devin Nunes — who is aggressively pushing the Justice Department for sensitive documents related to the Russia probe — as a ‘very courageous man.’ In remarks delivered before swearing in CIA Director Gina Haspel, Trump diverted from the focus of […]
5/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump will meet on Monday [5-21-18] with Justice Department and intelligence officials to discuss his order to look into whether his 2016 presidential campaign was infiltrated or surveilled under the Obama administration, a White House official told Reuters. Trump will meet at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) with Deputy […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdown after a weekend of rage culminated in his demand for an investigation into claims that the Obama administration inserted a spy in his 2016 campaign. Trump’s power play injected fresh intensity into […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department asked its internal watchdog to examine if there was any impropriety in the counterintelligence investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, after the president demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that the department investigate the motives behind the inquiry. Earlier Sunday, in one of a series of tweets targeting […]
5/20/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Sunday [5-20-18] demanded that the Justice Department investigate whether the department or the F.B.I. ‘infiltrated or surveilled’ his campaign at the behest of the Obama administration, following through on his frequent threats to intervene in the special counsel inquiry as he targets those he views as political […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that his Justice Department look into whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…The tweet comes after it was reported that the FBI dispatched a confidential source to speak with some aides to Trump’s presidential campaign about its possible […]
5/18/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump ramped up pressure against the Justice Department on Friday [5-18-18], raising concerns about the possibility of a government informant inside his presidential campaign and saying ‘if true’ it is the ‘all time biggest political scandal!’ In a pair of tweets on Friday morning, the president offered his latest salvo […]
5/18/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, the political world has treated Robert S. Mueller III as the arbiter of President Trump’s fate: Hopeful Democrats have theorized about the damage Mr. Mueller’s investigation might inflict. Suspicious Republicans, led by Mr. Trump, have cast him as leading a ‘witch hunt.’ But this week Rudolph W. Giuliani, […]
5/18/2018
CIA/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an ‘informant’ spying on the Trump campaign reached new heights Friday [5-18-18] morning, as President Donald Trump tweeted about the ‘all time greatest political scandal.’ But US officials tell CNN that the confidential intelligence source was not planted inside […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or ‘spy,’ inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump’s Twitter feed just as special […]
5/18/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [5-18-18] escalated his attacks on the Justice Department, suggesting that the FBI may have planted or recruited an informant in his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump stopped short of accusing the FBI of spying on his campaign, instead citing unnamed reports that at least one […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ‘”Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn’t commit.’ David Asman @LouDobbs @GreggJarrett Really bad stuff!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, 2018 5:24 am […]
5/17/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The guilty plea agreement, which is under seal […]
5/16/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will not indict President Trump if he finds wrongdoing in his investigation of Trump campaign links to Russia, according to the president’s lawyers. They said Wednesday [5-16-18] that Mr. Mueller’s investigators told them that he would adhere to the Justice Department’s view […]
5/15/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump honored on Tuesday [5-15-18] the sacrifices of police officers killed in the line of duty, calling them ‘among the bravest Americans to ever live’ and vowing that his administration has a clear policy: ‘We will protect those who protect us…’ He shared a few stories of fallen officers, […]
5/14/2018
CENSUS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is downplaying concerns about a possible low participation in the 2020 Census over the addition of a citizenship question for the first time in 70 years…The question has been asked every year in the American Community Survey, which is sent to fewer than 3 percent of U.S. households. […]
5/10/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MEULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A pair of top Republican lawmakers met with senior officials at the Justice Department Thursday [5-10-18] in an attempt to resolve a standoff over GOP requests for classified information related to the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election meddling. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) and fellow […]
5/9/18
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democratic lawmakers urged President Donald Trump in a letter Wednesday [5-9-18] to drop his nominee to lead the Department of Justice’s criminal division due to his past work for a Russian bank with ties to President Vladimir Putin. The group — spearheaded by Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — […]
5/8/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans angry with the Justice Department over not providing documents to Congress are urging President Donald Trump to intervene in the latest dispute between House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, a California Republican, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Nunes threatened on Fox News over the weekend to hold Sessions in contempt after […]
5/7/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Conservatives in the House of Representatives are making a push to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related to the Russia investigation, but a senior White House official said Monday [5-7-18] evening the administration is backing Sessions. ‘I think […]
5/7/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration plans to step up the prosecution of parents who cross the U.S. border illegally with their children, separating more families in hopes of deterring such crossings, officials said. The policy has been under review since the earliest days of the Trump administration and is part of the […]
5/7/2018
GUNS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bobby Amos stood outside of an Episcopal church in Alabama last spring, begging police to kill him. He had been suicidal earlier and held a gun to his head, his wife said, and she had hidden the weapon at the church, where he had followed her to retrieve it. There was […]
5/2/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday [5-2-18] to ‘get involved’ with the Justice Department’s ongoing task of producing documents to lawmakers after accusations the agency has refused requests on a variety of topics. The message thrust the President deeper into an ongoing battle between conservatives and the Justice Department, and specifically with […]
5/2/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Republican duo targeting senior leaders at the Justice Department have a new demand for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: They want to see an unredacted copy of the memo he sent to whom detailing the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The same lawmakers are […]
5/2/2018
CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Rigged System – They don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress. What are they afraid of? Why so much redacting? Why such unequal ‘justice?’ At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, […]
4/30/2018
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MUSLIMS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Monday [4-30-18] that he would not apologize for campaign statements calling for a ‘Muslim ban,’ appearing to undercut an assertion at a Supreme Court argument last week from Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco. In defending Mr. Trump’s efforts to restrict travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took shots at the FBI and the Justice Department during a half-hour phone interview on ‘Fox and Friends’ Thursday morning [4-26-18], hinting that at ‘some point’ he might step in and take action. ‘You look at the corruption at the top of the FBI — it’s a […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Thursday 4-26-18] that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is representing him with regards to legal matters involving Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had an affair with Trump. On Cohen, the President both solidified his link with Cohen on the […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he has decided not to interfere with the Justice Department, which is conducting an investigation of his associates’ alleged ties to Russia, but suggested there was a point at which he might. ‘I’m very disappointed in my Justice Department. I have decided I won’t be involved,’ Mr. […]
4/24/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On an oven-hot day this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strode into a hotel ballroom to preach Trump-era immigration gospel to cowboy-hatted sheriffs from 31 counties near the United States’ border with Mexico…Mr. Sessions has taken more abuse from President Trump than any other member of his high-churn cabinet […]
4/23/2018
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made overhauling the chronically backlogged immigration courts a top priority — but some of his moves seem to run counter to recommendations in a Justice Department-commissioned report made public on Monday [4-23-18]. While some of the recommendations, such as increasing staffing, have been part of his […]
4/19/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog referred its finding that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had misled investigators to federal prosecutors to determine whether he should be charged with a crime, according to people familiar with the matter. The inspector general concluded in a report released last week that Mr. McCabe […]
4/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey in memos recounting conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump last year said Trump repeatedly raised concern over salacious allegations in an intelligence dossier, the need for loyalty and ferreting out leakers. The partially redacted memos were handed over on Thursday [4-19-18] by the U.S. Justice […]
4/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At least two of the memos that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified, according to people familiar with the matter, prompting a review by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog. Of those two memos, Mr. Comey himself […]
4/19/2018
JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump spoke in intimate and candid terms to the former F.B.I. director James Comey about some of the most sensitive matters before the agency, including the salacious dossier detailing Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia and the investigation into Michael T. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, according to […]
4/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited U.S. Justice Department internal watchdog report on former FBI chief James Comey’s public disclosures on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state and whether FBI employees leaked information to try to hurt her 2016 presidential bid is expected to be issued next month. […]
4/18/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge expressed skepticism on Thursday [4-19-18] as a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sought to convince her to dismiss charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. During a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson questioned Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downing and […]
4/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wasted no time before seizing on last week’s report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog on misconduct allegations against the FBI’s former No. 2 official, Andrew McCabe. Trump tweeted it was proof that his archrival James Comey, the former FBI director, ‘totally controlled’ McCabe. But the report […]
4/17/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump probably can’t fire special counsel Robert Mueller himself. So if he wants to end or limit Mueller’s Russia probe, he’ll need to find someone who will. He may have his man in Solicitor General Noel Francisco, a little-known Trump appointee who happens to have an ax to grind […]
4/13/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Friday [4-13-18] to block the Justice Department from reading documents related to his decade-long legal representation of Mr. Trump and that were taken in a recent F.B.I. raid. Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen still were […]
4/13/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “DOJ just issued the McCabe report – which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey – McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2018 2:36 pm […]
4/13/2018
ETHICS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein continues to oversee special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation after consulting with a career ethics adviser at the Justice Department about his ability to oversee the Russia probe, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. For nearly a year, legal experts and journalists have […]
4/13/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump this week stepped up preparations to counter political and military challenges that could reshape his presidency, girding for a strike against Syria and pushing a campaign to discredit the Justice Department. Several aides described Mr. Trump seething over an FBI raid of his personal attorney’s files and […]
4/13/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, is “under criminal investigation,” the Justice Department said Friday [4-13-18]. In response to Cohen’s motion to restrain the evidence collected in Monday’s [4-9-18] raids of his home and office, the US attorney in New York asserted the raids were authorized by a […]
4/11/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate Judiciary Committee could vote as soon as next week on bipartisan legislation introduced Wednesday [4-11-2018] that would allow special counsels like Robert S. Mueller III to appeal their firing to a panel of judges and possibly be reinstated. The committee’s chairman, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, […]
4/11/2018
CONGRESS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The latest fight between congressional Republicans and the Justice Department over FBI documents has Republicans threatening to hold Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt of Congress — and openly floating the notion of impeaching him — which could provide a new pretext for President Donald Trump to potentially fire Rosenstein […]
4/11/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Russia collusion probe. The Stormy Daniels allegations. The escalating tension with Moscow. The tempests that have separately buffeted the White House for months merged into a maelstrom this week and threatened to engulf President Donald Trump, who on Wednesday [4-11-18] railed against members of the Justice Department by name and […]
4/10/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House punched back at its own Justice Department Tuesday [4-10-18], with President Donald Trump and senior officials expressing outrage over a law enforcement raid on lawyer Michael Cohen—and making thinly veiled threats to fire special Russia prosecutor Robert Mueller…Angry and increasingly isolated, the president is more […]
4/9/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department, accused by President Trump of ‘slow walking’ its response to a congressional inquiry into the F.B.I.’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email case, said on Sunday [4-8-18] that it was appointing a United States attorney to speed the production of documents. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee […]
4/9/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The F.B.I. raided the Rockefeller Center office and Park Avenue hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Monday [4-9-18] morning, seizing business records, emails and documents related to several topics, including a payment to a pornographic film actress. Mr. Trump, in an extraordinarily angry response, […]
4/5/2018
DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Intelligence Committee may have concluded its Russia investigation, but the panel’s Republican chairman, Devin Nunes, is not finished grilling the FBI over its probe into Kremlin election meddling. In a letter to the Justice Department, Nunes is demanding an unredacted copy of the document that initiated the FBI’s investigation […]
4/4/2018
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos held sessions with supporters and detractors of an Obama-era school-discipline policy on Wednesday [4-4-18] amid signs the department is weighing the rule’s repeal. The 2014 discipline policy, developed jointly by the Education and Justice departments, directed schools to ensure that they didn’t disproportionately punish black and Hispanic […]
4/3/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge tore into all of the legal arguments that a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort made on Wednesday [4-4-18] in his long-shot civil case to convince her that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has run amok and should be reined in…Manafort filed a […]
4/3/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spent a second day Tuesday [4-3-18] attacking CNN and other mainstream media outlets while defending Sinclair Broadcast Group, the local-news giant whose anchors were required to deliver an on-air monologue denouncing ‘the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.’ Trump spread around his anger on […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller, the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, is specifically authorized to investigate allegations that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, a court filing showed late on Monday [4-2-18]. The court documents also show that Mueller […]
4/2/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Justice has announced it will evaluate immigration judges on how many cases they close and how fast they hear cases, a move that judges and advocates criticize as potentially jeopardizing the courts’ fairness and perhaps leading to far more deportations. The policy has been in the works […]
4/2/2018
CALIFORNIA/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration took aim on Monday [4-2-18] at a land use law passed by California lawmakers last year, the latest salvo in a battle between the two governments that prompted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to complain that the state’s leaders were acting as if they were ‘above the law.’ […]
4/2/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump ended a 12-day respite from Twitter assaults about the Justice Department Monday [4-2-18], resurrecting a charge levied by Republican lawmakers that the department and FBI are dragging their feet in handing over documents related to several controversial investigations. ‘So sad that the Department of ‘Justice’ and the FBI […]
4/2/2018
CALIFORNIA/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Justice Department sued California over a state law that aims to stop the Trump administration from selling or transferring federal lands to private corporations, hitting the state with yet another legal challenge. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Monday [4-2-18] in Sacramento, the state capital, comes less than […]
3/30/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Before taking his new job as White House national security adviser in 10 days, John Bolton will have to wind down his multimillion-dollar political operation that is already in the thick of the 2018 election, according to the White House and an independent federal watchdog agency. Under the […]
3/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s inspector general, facing increasing political pressure from Republicans in Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said on Wednesday [3-28-18] that his office would investigate the surveillance of a former Trump campaign official. The announcement came amid a stream of attacks in recent months from the White […]
3/29/2018
CENSUS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid accusations of politicizing the US Census, President Donald Trump’s campaign touted the administration’s move to add a question about citizenship status on the consequential survey in an email to supporters on Wednesday [3-29-18]. The email with the subject line ‘GOOD NEWS: We are asking about citizenship’ was sent to the […]
3/29/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Wednesday [3-28-18] , The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd floated the possibility that Trump might issue pardons to Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort with their attorneys last year. Meanwhile, CNN has learned there was a discussion within the Department of Justice last […]
3/28/2018
JARED KUSHNER/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the final months of the Obama administration, the Justice Department announced a new approach to preparing prisoners for life beyond their cells. Officials created a prison school system, pledged money for technology training and promised to help prevent former inmates from returning to prison. Almost immediately after taking […]
3/28/2018
FBI/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog unit will investigate how the FBI and federal prosecutors obtained warrants from the nation’s secret spy court to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser, the inspector general’s office said Wednesday [3-28-18]. The statement confirms an investigation that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had requested and disclosed […]
3/28/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge is allowing the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia to partially proceed in a lawsuit accusing President Donald J. Trump of accepting unconstitutional gifts from foreign interests. U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte ruled Wednesday [3-28-18] that the two jurisdictions have legal standing to proceed […]
3/28/2018
CALIFORNIA/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [3-28-18] extolled a major California county for joining his administration’s legal challenge to the state’s new limits on how much local police and sheriff’s departments support his rigorous deportation policy. ‘My Administration stands in solidarity with the brave citizens in Orange County defending their rights […]
3/23/2018
GUNS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA: “Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period. We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns. –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 23, 2018 6:01pm […]
3/21/2018
CYBERWAR/IRAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration announced criminal charges and sanctions Friday [3-23-18] against Iranians accused in a hacking scheme to pilfer sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and American government agencies. The nine defendants, accused of working at the behest of the Iranian government-tied Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, hacked the computer […]
3/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Department of Justice should have urged the Supreme Court to at least hear the Drivers License case on illegal immigrants in Arizona. I agree with @LouDobbs. Should have sought review.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 21, 2018 5:52am […]
3/19/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova will join President Donald Trump’s legal team later this week, adding to the president’s Russia response another bulldog lawyer who argued earlier this year that Trump had been framed by the Justice Department and FBI with a falsely created crime…’ The addition of diGenova […]
3/18/2019
DRUGS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s plan to fight the opioid epidemic will call for the death penalty in some cases, White House officials said Sunday [3-18-18], scaling back the administration’s plan to punish drug dealers. ‘The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty against drug traffickers when appropriate under current law,’ said […]
3/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “The Trump administration on Thursday [3-15-18] issued for the first time sanctions against Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and for cyberattacks, targeting the Kremlin’s intelligence agencies and individuals indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for their role in election interference. In sanctioning five entities […]