DOJ Drops Subpoenas of New York Times Journalists and Their Family Members

Lawyers for the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped subpoenas of several New York Times journalists — and some targeting their family members — after a federal judge berated the Trump administration for its actions. Earlier this month, the Times reported on security flaws of President Donald Trump’s new Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet. When Trump didn’t use the jet on his travels home from a…
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Attempts to Charge People With Assaulting Immigration Agents are Falling Apart

An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that nearly half of those charges were either dropped or resulted in no conviction — suggesting that federal law enforcement has engaged in widespread misconduct in carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The New York Times report, published on July 18…
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Lawsuit Against Reparations Program in Illinois Can’t Quash Movement’s Momentum

The Department of Justice is attempting to sabotage a reparations initiative that compensates victims of historic housing discrimination in Evanston, Illinois. For decades, Black residents of Evanston were subjected to redlining and other forms of housing discrimination, which prevented them from obtaining bank loans to purchase property. “Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century…
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Judge Blocks Federal Government From Accessing Medical Records of Trans Minors

A federal judge in Manhattan has temporarily blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from using grand jury subpoenas to obtain medical records of patients who have received gender-affirming care as minors at NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other New York City hospitals. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla granted a temporary restraining order after several families and…
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Changes at Education Department Will Leave Many Vulnerable Students at Risk

The Trump administration took aggressive new steps on Tuesday to shut down the Department of Education. Through agreements with other federal agencies, the administration announced that it would give the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight of some of the Education Department’s key functions. HHS will oversee special education and…
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Trump Admin Admits to Using Grok to Bomb Iran In Federal Lawsuit Backing Musk

On Monday, the Trump administration admitted for the first time that it has used Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company to support U.S. military operations, including bombing Iran. The information came to light when the Department of Justice (DOJ) intervened in a federal environmental lawsuit filed by the NAACP against Musk’s data center in Mississippi. The DOJ argued that the judge…
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