Author: Kaelan Deese

Former White House senior adviser Anita Dunn arrived Thursday morning on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview with House Oversight Committee investigators, as part of the panel’s intensifying inquiry into whether top aides worked to conceal signs of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. Dunn declined to answer reporters’ questions as she arrived at the Rayburn House Office Building and walked…

The Justice Department’s newly authorized criminal investigation into former Obama administration officials over their assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election is fueling speculation that prosecutors will seek to impanel a grand jury in South Florida. A move to convene a grand jury in the politically friendly jurisdiction could provide a more advantageous terrain…

The Trump administration is considering whether to publicly release a transcript of a late-July interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The Justice Department recorded Maxwell’s interview, which took place last month on July 24 and 25 at the U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, and is now in the process of transcribing and redacting…

A case before the Supreme Court this fall could determine whether federal candidates and political groups have the right to challenge state voting laws in court, potentially opening the door to new legal challenges against policies that allow ballots to be counted after Election Day. At issue is an Illinois law that permits mail-in ballots to be…

The newly declassified annex to special counsel John Durham‘s 2023 report reveals that the Obama-era FBI failed to investigate credible intelligence indicating the Hillary Clinton campaign was orchestrating a plan to link President Donald Trump to Russia falsely, with indications that she expected the FBI would aid in the effort. The 24-page annex, declassified Thursday at the direction of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley…

More than seven months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has yet to see a single United States attorney nominee confirmed by the Senate. Of the 94 districts that require a top federal prosecutor, only a dozen nominees have cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee, and none have reached the floor for a vote. Faced with this confirmation…

A conservative watchdog group that began investigating former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen long before any congressional investigations started is furious over a lack of transparency and what it says are officials stonewalling information requests at the Justice Department. The Oversight Project, which sued the DOJ in May over stalled Freedom of Information…

The U.S. intelligence community had no direct evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election but advanced that claim anyway under the direction of then-President Barack Obama, according to a newly declassified House Intelligence Committee report. The report, kept classified since it was finalized on Sept. 18, 2020, under the leadership of…

Some of the most prominent minds behind the conservative legal movement are fighting a Republican president and his administration in court and it’s putting these elite attorneys, many champions of the Right for their past efforts to combat the administrative state, on President Donald Trump‘s bad side. In a series of lawsuits spanning trade, higher education,…

Six years after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody, the federal government continues to withhold thousands of pages of files tied to the late financier and sex trafficker’s life, death, and network, despite renewed promises of transparency under President Donald Trump’s second term. The matter exploded into controversy last week when the Justice Department wrote in a two-page memorandum that it…