Author: Kaelan Deese

Department of Justice officials are criticizing what they say were expressions of clear bias against President Donald Trump in private comments from a top federal judge, following a report Wednesday on leaked notes from a judicial conference in March. The reported conversations, described in a memorandum obtained by The Federalist, refer to remarks made at a meeting involving United…

A federal judge in Tennessee will reconsider on Wednesday whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia should remain in jail while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges, amid growing concerns by his counsel that the Trump administration will deport him before his case ever reaches a jury. The unusual hearing will pit the Department of Justice under the Trump administration against Abrego Garcia’s lawyers, with…

A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order by certifying a nationwide class action, marking the first such ruling since the Supreme Court narrowed the ability of lower courts to issue sweeping injunctions against presidential policies. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante, an appointee of former President George W. Bush in Concord, sided…

House Republicans are weighing how to proceed after Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former President Joe Biden’s White House physician, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions Wednesday in a closed-door interview with congressional investigators.  His decision to remain silent, while citing a pending Department of Justice criminal investigation, has intensified GOP allegations of a coordinated cover-up surrounding…

The Supreme Court has issued back-to-back orders allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants to South Sudan — a move that has likely laid the groundwork for the Trump administration to remove Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country, even before his criminal trial in Tennessee begins. While Abrego Garcia has not been convicted on human smuggling charges, legal experts…

EXCLUSIVE — The Justice Department‘s Civil Rights Division is undergoing a complete internal transformation under President Donald Trump’s second term — not just of enforcement strategy but of personnel, institutional practices, and long-held assumptions about how federal civil rights laws should be applied. “When my memos went out, that culture changed,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, head…

The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to revive a Montana law that would have required minors to obtain notarized parental consent before getting an abortion, leaving intact a state court ruling that struck down the measure under Montana’s constitution. The justices turned away a petition from Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a Republican, who argued the parental consent…

The Supreme Court on Monday wiped away a series of lower court decisions that favored transgender litigants, sending the cases back to the appellate level for reconsideration in light of the court’s recent ruling upholding a Tennessee ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors. The 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, handed down June 18, marked a major victory for…

Emil Bove, nominated by President Donald Trump to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, forcefully denied allegations Wednesday that he urged Justice Department lawyers to ignore court orders to facilitate deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, calling the claims “wildly inaccurate.” “No, I have never advised a Department of Justice attorney to…

The Supreme Court’s ruling this week upholding the Tennessee ban on transgender medical procedures for minors is rapidly transforming legal battles across the country, handing state lawmakers a sweeping win and signaling a new judicial standard that restricts the reach of gender identity claims under the Constitution. In United States v. Skrmetti, the justices ruled…