Author: Kaelan Deese

The Justice Department is throwing its weight behind a federal lawsuit led by the City of Huntington Beach and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, arguing that California’s 2017 “sanctuary” law violates the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution by blocking local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. In a 36-page statement of interest filed last week, the Trump administration’s DOJ called California’s law,…

The FBI under former Director Christopher Wray is facing renewed scrutiny for allegedly suppressing an intelligence memo warning of alleged Chinese efforts to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of then-candidate Joe Biden, the latest in a series of damaging disclosures casting a shadow over Wray’s tenure. Newly revealed documents and congressional letters show that the FBI, under former President Joe…

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) began Wednesday’s Senate hearing on former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness with a striking rebuttal, displaying a video montage of President Donald Trump making his own series of gaffes. The clip, played during Durbin’s opening remarks, included Trump’s pandemic-era comments about injecting disinfectant, comments about windmills driving whales “crazy,” and occasions…

FBI Director Kash Patel has turned over a batch of internal documents to Congress detailing allegations that Chinese operatives sought to interfere in the 2020 election by mass-producing fake U.S. driver’s licenses to facilitate fraudulent mail-in voting. The intelligence, which Patel said on Monday night he had recently declassified, has been sent to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who has led…

A prominent conservative legal group is calling on Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) to launch a civil rights investigation into the state’s largest hospital system, Indiana University Health, over allegations it is embedding “illegal” race and sex preferences throughout its operations, including in organ transplant eligibility. In a June 11 letter revealed publicly on Monday, the America First Legal Foundation, founded by…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national at the center of a legal firestorm over President Donald Trump‘s immigration policies, pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal human smuggling charges. Abrego Garcia was arraigned Friday in Tennessee federal court, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and pleaded not guilty to two federal charges accusing him of trafficking illegal migrants across…

The Trump administration notched a procedural legal victory Tuesday after a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a judge’s order requiring the government to offer due process to nearly 140 Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador earlier this year. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an administrative stay halting an order by…

Leonard Leo, the architect of President Donald Trump’s first-term legal legacy, is now at the center of a growing backlash from within Trump World — including from the president himself. The attacks from Trump and his allies on Leo and the Federalist Society reflect rifts between the populist Right and the conservative legal establishment. They…

A man accused of attacking a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, with Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower has been charged with a federal hate crime after admitting he targeted what he called a “Zionist group” and had planned the assault for a year, according to federal authorities. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national…

President Donald Trump said this week he would look into whether pardons are warranted for men convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, reviving national interest in a high-profile case that raises questions on whether FBI malfeasance led to their radicalization and alleged entrapment. “I did watch the trial. It looked to me…