The Department of Justice has ruled that acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker can serve in the position.
Whitaker came under criticism after President Donald Trump appointed him when Jeff Sessions stepped down. Whitaker served as Sessions’ chief of staff.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at Trump’s request.
Just before President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One, he told the press he has no plans to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Rosenstein is traveling with Trump to Orlando, FL. Speculation has grown around a possible firing of Rosenstein after The New York Times
The Department of Justice has indicted seven Russians who participated in a cyberattack against those who exposed a Russian doping conspiracy that led to the country’s banishment from the 2016 and 2018 Olympics.
A grand jury located in the Western District of Pennsylvania indicted the men on charges of “computer hacking, wire...
This past June, my colleague Mary Chastain noted that the internet was still working after the Trump administration ended Obama-era “net neutrality” rules with the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order.
However, tinkering with working systems until they no longer function is a feature of the California state legislature, so it created its...
Fascinating that Yale is now facing allegations similar to the ones made against Harvard.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Justice Department opens investigation into Yale for discrimination against Asian-Americans
The Departments of Justice and Education have opened an investigation into Yale University’s admission practices to determine if the school has been illegally discriminating against Asian-American...
Earlier this morning, Axios has reported that “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has verbally resigned to Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President Trump, according to a source with direct knowledge.”
Other reports indicate that Rosenstein is headed to the White House...
President Donald Trump will go on a Twitter tirade in 3…2…1…
The New York Times reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosensetin, the man who hired Special Counsel Robert Mueller, offered to wear a wire to tape Trump and rally “cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from...
Nellie Ohr, the wife of DOJ official Bruce Ohr and employee at GPS Fusion, has an closed door hearing with Congress on Friday, but now some say she has refused to make an appearance.
Ohr worked at Fusion GPS,...
President Donald Trump spoke to The Hill today and once against attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions. From The Hill:
“I don’t have an attorney general. It’s very sad,” Trump told Hill.TV in an extensive and freewheeling interview Tuesday from the Oval Office.
Buried amid all the anti-Trump “Russia, Russia, Russia” derangement are a couple of potentially explosive revelations.
Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer and mistress of former FBI agent Peter Strzok, admitted that the FBI couldn’t prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia at the time Robert Mueller took over the investigation, and...
Fox News has obtained new text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page, a former FBI lawyer, that show others within the government leaked information to the media before the Russia probe. From
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) announced on Monday that his office received new text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strozk and his mistress Lisa Page that shows “an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations.”
New texts released by Meadows on Tuesday...
In July, the Department of Justice charged Russian national Maria Butina with conspiring to defraud the United States and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
U. S. prosecutors admitted they misread text messages they used in court Friday to claim that Butina traded sex...
A source familiar with the testimony of FBI Special Agent Jonathan Moffa told The Daily Caller News Foundation that the agent admitted in his House testimony that the agency would leak stories to the press and used those stories to obtain FISA warrants.
Federal prosecutors announced an indictment (pdf.) against Rep. Christopher Collins (R-NY) on insider trading charges and lying to the FBI along with his son Cameron Collins and Stephen Zarsky, the father of Cameron’s fiancee.
The charges stem from...
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand Attorney General Jeff Sessions shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe immediately.
