Author: Ashley Oliver

The Department of Justice asked a judge on Friday to recuse herself from a case involving President Donald Trump‘s fight with the Democratic-aligned law firm Perkins Coie, alleging she has shown a “pattern of hostility” toward Trump that renders her incapable of being impartial. In a court motion, DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle gave…

Department of Justice attorneys replied on Thursday to Judge James Boasberg’s questions about flights that deported migrants last weekend as the judge weighs whether the Trump administration followed his order to temporarily halt its use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people. Boasberg quickly responded that he was dissatisfied with the DOJ’s reply, which…

Rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s top aides and allies toward unfriendly judges has reached a peak, but the Department of Justice has so far maintained deference toward the courts in its filings and hearings. The DOJ issued its most aggressive legal pushback yet on Wednesday when it argued in a motion that Judge James Boasberg’s…

A judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from carrying out an executive order that bans people with gender dysphoria from serving in the military, saying the government was unjustly discriminating against people based on their sex and transgender status. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote in a scathing 79-page memorandum that President Donald Trump’s…

The House Judiciary Committee demanded Tuesday that former special counsel David Weiss and seven current and former Justice Department lawyers testify before Congress about their work involving Hunter Biden, President Donald Trump, and other cases with political undertones. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote two letters, one to Weiss and another to Attorney General Pam Bondi,…

The Trump administration responded Tuesday to a judge’s questions about whether it defied a court order, saying it did not and that it used more than just the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. Robert Cerna, an acting field office director within Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told Judge James Boasberg in an…

The Trump administration is invoking rarely used authorities to remove some noncitizens from the United States, laying the groundwork for the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the controversial actions are legal. President Donald Trump has framed his actions as efforts to root out noncitizens who support terrorists and banish members of notoriously violent gangs, but outside groups and lawyers…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection blocked a doctor who specializes in kidney transplants from entering the country after discovering she had recently attended the funeral of a leader of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist organization. The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Monday on X saying Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a 34-year-old Lebanese national, attended former…

President Donald Trump ushered in a new era at the Department of Justice on Friday, saying the department that once brought criminal charges against him would no longer be “weaponized” and instead concentrate its resources on illegal immigration and street crime. Trump’s appearance inside the very building that led an investigation and prosecution of Trump during the last couple of years…

EXCLUSIVE — House lawmakers are urging passage of a bill to cut back on the tens of thousands of federal criminal statutes and regulations, which critics say are too sprawling and cause prosecutors to over-criminalize people. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who leads a panel on the Constitution and limited government, is spearheading the bipartisan effort along with Reps. Lucy McBath (D-GA),…