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US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual”

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As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show. The records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the ethics watchdog CREW, are yet another window into the […]

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Charlie Kirk and Trump’s Looming Political Crackdown

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The shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week was part of a wider, horrific trend: the rise of political violence in America. But Kirk’s murder also seemed to reveal something even darker. Before a suspect was found—when facts were scarce—the race for political retribution was already well underway.  On Tuesday, Utah prosecutors charged […]

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Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theorist Who Likened BLM to Terrorists to Lead Counterterrorism Center

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The Senate confirmed Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in a 52 to 44 vote.

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Six Months in, Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse

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Sunday marked six months of President Donald Trump’s return to office. To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear. “Today is Six Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social rant. House Speaker […]

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How MAGA Took Over America’s 250th Birthday

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Tanks, armored personnel carriers, and howitzers will roll through the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday—coming to a halt just steps from where President Donald Trump once exhorted his supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the US Capitol. But the president’s grand military parade has something else in common with the “election integrity” […]

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She Denied Mel Gibson a Gun—Then Trump’s DOJ Fired Her

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When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. As a longtime public defender, Oyer was now in a position to advise the president on the backlog of thousands of individuals seeking presidential clemency. But earlier this year, her dream job ended abruptly. In March, […]

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Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

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In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US Attorney for DC, showed up at a community meeting at a police station to tout his efforts to combat crime in the district. Martin politely fielded questions from attendees, even answering one from a man who, citing Martin’s widely condemned description of his office as […]

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Ed Martin Isn’t Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer

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Ed Martin, the far-right-activist-turned-acting US attorney for DC, apologized this week for praising an alleged Nazi sympathizer at an event last year. But Martin’s ties to Timothy Hale-Cusanelli—who is known for wearing a Hitler-style mustache, and who allegedly once told a coworker that the Nazis “should have finished the job”—are far more extensive than just that […]

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Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions

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The Trump administration’s top prosecutor for Washington, DC, spoke last month at a Florida fundraiser, where he criticized the Justice Department’s prosecutions of people involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress. The speech was attended by numerous January 6 defendants, including former members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia who are still appealing […]

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