The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism. The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s…
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On Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted a filing in a California federal district court, announcing that the federal government seeks to join a lawsuit submitted by the state Republican Party challenging recently enacted congressional maps that were passed as part of a voter-endorsed ballot initiative earlier this month. California usually uses an independent commission to draw…
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One might think that the word “homeland” is mere post-9/11 sloganeering, but Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, now in final edits, makes the United States and the Western Hemisphere the single top priority for the military and the national security agencies, multiple government sources say. Trump is taking “America First” literally. For the first time ever…
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It’s day 42 of the U.S. government shutdown, but an end is finally in sight. On Sunday night, the Senate voted to move forward with funding for the federal government through January 30. That vote, in which eight Democrats joined the vast majority of Senate Republicans, is expected to be followed by approval from the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and President Donald Trump.
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As the Trump administration blows past a key congressional deadline, a top lawyer in the Department of Justice has claimed that the executive branch does not need the approval of Congress to continue conducting boat strikes in and around the Caribbean — an assertion outside experts say is patently false. Last week, Office of Legal Counsel T. Elliot Gaiser told a small group of members of…
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President Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) pay him around $230 million as compensation for federal investigations into his actions over the past several years. The demand stems from complaints Trump made before winning a second presidential term. Now back in office, those complaints create an incredible conflict of interest — one that Trump seems to be aware of…
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