“This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights,” Abughazaleh posted on X.
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Feds Indict Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Over Protesting Read Post »
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Denise Rosales has never been arrested. She’s never been handcuffed. She’s never spent a night behind bars, never stood before a judge to profess her innocence. And yet, if you perform a […]
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On Tuesday, shortly after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump is demanding $230 million from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reimburse him for legal costs related to earlier federal investigations against him, the president claimed he would donate any such funds to charity. “I’m not looking for money,” he told reporters. […]
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President Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department transfer $230 million in taxpayer dollars into his own personal bank account. He can do this, because thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, the executive branch could accurately be described by King Louis XIV—L’état, c’est Trump. When Trump says this is his decision to make, he’s […]
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As Trump Plans to Steal $230 Million From Taxpayers, You Can Thank John Roberts Read Post »
Earlier this year, Mother Jones published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” Examples included buying crypto with the proceeds filling Trump family pockets, paying up to a million dollars to a Trump PAC for access to the president, shelling out excessive settlements to end dubious lawsuits filed by […]
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Report: Trump Demands Taxpayers Hand Him $230 Million Read Post »
On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify […]
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The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts Read Post »
Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against perceived political enemies, regardless of the existence or quality of evidence.
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Critics Call Former FBI Director James Comey’s Indictment a “Vengeance Campaign” Read Post »
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time ally turned critic of President Donald Trump, observed recently that Trump has torn down the traditional barrier between the president’s personal ambitions and the Justice Department’s power to investigate and prosecute criminal wrongdoing. “He absolutely rejects the idea that there should be separation between criminal investigations and […]
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The Supreme Court Greenlit the President’s Political Prosecutions—Even Unlawful Ones Read Post »
As the Trump administration vows to undertake a sweeping crackdown on liberal organizations following last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department on Tuesday sued two blue states, Maine and Oregon, to attempt to gain access to their full, unredacted voter registration lists, intensifying President Trump’s anti-voting efforts. The DOJ has demanded […]
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The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data Read Post »
The executive branch has no authority to run elections or compile a massive database of voters’ personal information.
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Trump’s DOJ Has Demanded Voter Files From at Least 27 States Read Post »
When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sworn into office in 2023, then-Gov. Mike Parson joked that he had extracted a “blood oath” from the new appointee not to run for higher office too quickly. The state’s previous two attorneys general—Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt—had both used the position as an interim step to the […]
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Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post Read Post »
Ghislaine Maxwell has delighted MAGA loyalists by asserting that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence “in any inappropriate setting” throughout the years he spent hanging out with the late convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors and conspiracy, […]
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Ghislaine Maxwell Absolves Trump, and Everyone Else, in DOJ Interviews Read Post »
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