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The DOJ Just Sued New Mexico for Passing a Law Its Legislature Voted On.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court to block New Mexico's Immigrant Safety Act before it takes effect, arguing the state cannot prohibit local governments from cooperating with ICE. The state's governor signed the bill in February. The federal government wants a judge to override her.
Supermicro's Co-Founder Was Indicted for Smuggling $2.5 Billion in AI Chips to China. The Stock Jumped 18%.
The market decided the indictment was contained and the guidance was real. One of those bets is probably right.
Trump Is Purging Voter Rolls Inside the 90-Day Window. The Courts Keep Saying No. He Keeps Going.
The Justice Department is using an immigration database to challenge voter registrations in 30 states, within 90 days of the midterm election. Courts have thrown out case after case. The purges continue.
The DOJ Charges Comey Over a Seashell Photo
The second indictment of a former FBI director for a beach photo is either the most embarrassing prosecution in modern history, or a warning shot designed to be dismissed.
The Seashell Prosecution
The DOJ just charged James Comey with threatening the president's life based on a photo of beach shells. Legal experts call it an embarrassment. The administration is calling it justice.
The Federal Government Just Declared War on State AI Regulation, and Colorado Folded Before the Battle Started
The DOJ joined xAI's lawsuit against Colorado's AI antidiscrimination law the same afternoon Colorado's AG agreed to stop enforcing it. No court ordered the freeze. The legislature has 16 days to pass a replacement. The AI Litigation Task Force is just getting started.
Dhillon's DOJ Is Completing the Rollback Reagan Couldn't: What Changed and Why It Matters
In the 1980s, GOP moderates in the Senate and Cabinet stopped Reagan's civil rights retrenchment. Today, Harmeet Dhillon is executing the same agenda without a single Republican senator objecting. The silence is the story.
The Justice Department Dismantles DACA From the Inside
By ruling that DACA status alone cannot block deportation, the administration's own immigration courts have accomplished what congressional repeal never could.
The DOJ Restores the Firing Squad. The Pope Disagrees.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche reinstated federal executions by firing squad the same week the newly elected Pope Leo called for abolishing the death penalty worldwide, forcing a collision between the administration's criminal justice agenda and its Catholic political coalition.
Trump Is Suing an Agency He Controls. A Judge Wants to Know How That Works.
A federal judge has paused Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, noting that a president cannot be 'sufficiently adverse' to his own executive branch to satisfy the Constitution's requirements for a real legal dispute.
The Justice Department Just Ruled That Being a Dreamer Is Not a Reason to Stay
A Board of Immigration Appeals decision strips DACA status of its practical protection without touching the program itself. The administration is dismantling the policy from the inside.
The Federal Government Just Told States They Cannot Regulate AI Bias
The DOJ's decision to join xAI's suit against Colorado isn't about Musk. It's a constitutional claim that anti-discrimination mandates in AI are themselves unconstitutional discrimination.
Hollywood Consolidates Into the Last Two Studios That Matter
Warner Bros. shareholders approved Paramount's $81 billion takeover. HBO Max and Paramount+ will merge. Five legacy studios are becoming two. The survivors will still lose to Netflix.
33 States Beat Ticketmaster. The DOJ Settled. The States Did Not.
A federal jury found Live Nation operated an illegal monopoly. The story is not about concert tickets. It is about what happens to antitrust enforcement when the federal government stops doing it.
The DOJ Is Asking Courts to Erase the Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy Convictions. That Is Not Forgiveness. It Is Revision.
Jeanine Pirro's filing doesn't argue the defendants are innocent. It argues that erasing their convictions is 'in the interests of justice.' The two things are not the same, and the courts are being asked to pretend they are.
The DOJ Is 0 for 5 on Voter Data. It Has 25 Cases Left.
Courts keep rejecting the administration's demand for voter rolls. That does not explain why 17 Republican-led states handed over the data anyway.
The DOJ Just Said Trump Can Burn His Papers
The Justice Department declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The law was passed because a president tried to do exactly this before.
The Government That Pressed the Mute Button
The DOJ settled a lawsuit confirming the Biden State Department funded tools to suppress protected speech on social media. The settlement admits more than it resolves.
The DOJ Just Said Trump Doesn't Have to Hand Over His Records. Ever.
A 52-page OLC opinion declares a post-Nixon law unconstitutional, giving Trump the legal cover to keep his presidency's documents permanently.