Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived President Donald Trump’s effort to move his New York hush money conviction into federal court, reopening a pathway for Trump to wipe out his guilty verdict entirely. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit vacated a lower court…

Former President Barack Obama’s use of executive power and pursuit of policy changes without the constraints of Congress helped set the table for what Democrats now describe as the “authoritarian” ethos of the second Trump administration. From using the Justice Department to achieve partisan goals to advancing his immigration agenda via executive actions, Obama set precedents…

The House Oversight Committee asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday to open a review into every executive action taken during former President Joe Biden’s administration, arguing that many may have been carried out without his direct authorization as his cognitive health declined. In a referral letter dated Tuesday, Chairman James Comer (R-KY) urged the Justice Department to determine whether all official…

Former special counsel Jack Smith’s legal team acknowledged that media reports were a key factor behind his 2023 decision to subpoena the phone records of nine Republican lawmakers, a revelation that could add new fuel to GOP accusations of political targeting. Smith’s attorneys, Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski, defended the subpoenas as “entirely proper, lawful,…