Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

A nationwide healthcare fraud crackdown resulted in charges against 455 defendants accused of schemes involving more than $6.5 billion in fraudulent claims, marking what federal officials on Tuesday described as the largest coordinated healthcare fraud enforcement action in Justice Department history. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,…

House Republicans threatened on Monday to hold Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue in contempt of Congress, escalating a yearlong investigation into allegations that the organization failed to prevent fraudulent and possibly foreign political donations. In a four-page letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, the Republican chairmen of three House committees accused the fundraising giant of improperly…

Federal district court judges reviewing President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda and other contested policies are increasingly being checked by appeals courts, raising questions as to whether some members of the federal judiciary are implementing the law or seeking partisan ends. The result has created a pattern in which lower courts block administration actions, higher courts…

A senior White House lawyer warned that suspending habeas corpus protections for illegal immigrants would likely trigger a major constitutional battle, cautioning President Donald Trump against taking up a strategy once used during the Civil War era under President Abraham Lincoln. Two sets of memoranda obtained by New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie…

A rumored White House proposal to issue 250 pardons to commemorate the nation’s 250th birthday is prompting a new wave of public clemency campaigns from some of the country’s most recognizable convicted figures, despite uncertainty about whether such a plan is even in the works. The proposal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal last…

House Democrats said Friday they will seek subpoenas for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel after former Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly declined to answer questions about the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files during a closed-door transcribed interview. The threats emerged during a break in Bondi’s transcribed interview before…

A federal judge on Tuesday granted former FBI Director James Comey’s request to delay his criminal trial over allegations that he threatened President Donald Trump through a social media post featuring seashells arranged in the numbers “86 47.” U.S. District Judge Louise Wood Flanagan rescheduled the trial to begin Oct. 21 in New Bern, North…