Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

MANASSAS, Virginia — Top Department of Justice officials revealed Thursday they arrested the alleged East Coast leader of the MS-13 gang, a transnational criminal group notorious for engaging in violence and drug trafficking. “Early this morning, one of the top leaders of MS-13 was apprehended,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the FBI field office…

President Donald Trump has seen little success with district court judges as he faces dozens of lawsuits, but higher courts have, on a few occasions, tempered the controversial restraining orders and injunctions weighing down the White House. Trump’s deluge of executive actions, aiming to shrink the executive branch at warp speed, has been met with…

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to lift a restraining order on its use of the Alien Enemies Act, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump as he attempts to carry out aggressive deportation plans for alleged Venezuelan gang members. A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…

The Trump administration has been withholding information from a judge in Washington, D.C., in a case about Alien Enemies Act deportations because the information is, according to the Department of Justice, too sensitive to divulge. But in a twist, that same judge is now set to preside over a new court case against five of…

Department of Justice attorneys assured a judge on Tuesday that the Trump administration complied with his order to halt the use of the Alien Enemies Act but refused to answer all of the judge’s questions about the matter after invoking the state secrets privilege. The attorneys said in a court filing that the administration abided…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday paused a lower court’s decision that blocked the Trump administration from rejecting new refugees, a small victory for the White House in its efforts to reshape immigration policy. A three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals comprising two Republican and one Democratic appointee said anyone conditionally approved…

A panel of judges in the appellate court in the District of Columbia expressed mixed concerns Monday during oral arguments over a lawsuit involving President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The three-judge panel, comprising two Republican-appointed judges and one Democrat-appointed judge, focused on the due process…

Judge James Boasberg denied the Trump administration‘s request to lift a temporary block on deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members through the Alien Enemies Act, saying in an order issued Monday that the migrants are allowed to challenge whether they qualify for deportation. Boasberg, an Obama appointee, wrote that the Trump administration gave little to no…

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is working to fend off possible contempt in a case involving alleged Venezuelan gang members, a heated fight happening parallel to a broader court battle over whether the president has authority to deport them under a wartime law. The possibility that Judge James Boasberg could hold Trump administration officials in contempt arose from the DOJ…

An appointee of President Donald Trump ordered prosecutors in New York City to sign off on dismissing Mayor Eric Adams’s bribery case, but they did not obey, resignations ensued, and legal experts across the political spectrum now say the debacle tainted the Justice Department’s credibility. Two top-tier prosecutors in the Southern District of New York…