Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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House oversight to grill Bill Clinton about Epstein visiting White House 17 times
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Former President Bill Clinton is set to testify Friday before the House oversight committee, where Republicans say they plan to press him about Jeffrey Epstein’s visits to the White House and his past travel aboard the late disgraced financier’s private plane. The closed-door deposition is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center…
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Judge permanently blocks release of Trump classified documents report
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A federal judge permanently barred the Justice Department on Monday from releasing the portion of former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report detailing his investigation into President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, delivering a sharp rebuke of the prosecutor’s actions after the case had already been dismissed. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump…
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Appeals court indefinitely halts judge’s limits on ICE tactics in Minnesota
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A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a lower-court judge’s restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics in Minnesota, handing the Trump administration a significant win as protests and legal challenges continue to surround federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an indefinite stay of a Jan.…
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Seven things to know about the criminal case against Maduro and his wife
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Captured former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday after their dramatic capture by U.S. forces, opening one of the most consequential criminal prosecutions ever brought against a foreign head of state and his spouse. The couple was seized in Caracas during a surprise U.S. military…
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Dan Bongino to leave FBI in January: ‘He wants to go back to his show’
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed Wednesday that he will leave the bureau in January, officially ending weeks of speculation about his future in the Trump administration. “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,” Bongino wrote in a statement posted on X. “I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and…
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FBI had doubts about probable cause for Mar-a-Lago raid, emails show
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The FBI under the Biden administration questioned whether it had established probable cause to search President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022, but moved forward with the raid anyway after pressure from senior Justice Department officials, according to newly declassified emails released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA). The emailed communications, which…
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Judge Boasberg seeks testimony from DOJ ‘whistleblower’ in criminal contempt inquiry
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Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg this week pushed forward his fact-finding inquiry into whether Justice Department officials under the Trump administration deliberately defied his emergency order blocking the removal of more than one hundred Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador earlier this year. Boasberg on Monday summoned former DOJ attorney-turned-leaker Erez Reuveni to testify next…
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Third judge rules DOJ can unseal Epstein grand jury records from sex trafficking case
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A federal judge in New York cleared the way for the Justice Department to release long-sealed grand jury materials from its sex-trafficking investigation into the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, marking another major step in the government’s race to comply with a new transparency law that requires all Epstein-related files to be published by Dec.…
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Judge gives DOJ more time to fight release of Comey grand jury records
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The judge overseeing the forthcoming criminal trial of former FBI Director James Comey intervened Monday evening to allow the Justice Department more time to argue against the release of grand jury records to the defendant. The decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, came hours after U.S. Magistrate…
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DOJ appeals judge’s order forcing the release of grand jury materials in Comey case
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The Justice Department moved Thursday to block a federal magistrate judge’s order requiring prosecutors to immediately turn over grand jury materials in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick stunned prosecutors Wednesday when he made the rare decision to order them to provide the materials to Comey’s defense…
