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Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president
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DOJ fires members of special counsel Jack Smith's team who prosecuted Trump
Acting attorney general fires prosecutors who worked for special counsel Jack Smith
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions of President Donald Trump, a DOJ official said Monday.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.
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The Department of Justice has told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation to immigrants at immigration courts.
The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.
Kash Patel has been nominated by President Trump to lead the FBI, pending Senate confirmation. Patel, who has a controversial history with the FBI and CIA, has served in various roles including as Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense.
Less than a fortnight in office, President Donald Trump has quickly targeted federal employees in his attempt to remake the government in his own image, using the politics of revenge. Newly re-inaugurated for a second term,
Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar agrees that the two-term limit applies to any two terms by a single person, even if those terms are not back-to-back.
President Trump's nominee to be top US spy, Tulsi Gabbard, and pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, face tough Senate hearings.
Executive orders will have dramatic impact on federal agencies, contractors, and grantees, and sow uncertainty about voluntary DEI
One of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's most prominent staff attorneys is joining the Trump administration as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice.
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment.
The federal funding freeze, rescinded after a judge paused it, is the latest episode in the president’s attempts to extend his authority beyond the limits of the law
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