Category: Justice

Sanctuary Cities Freed Tens of Thousands of Criminal Aliens Wanted by ICE During Biden Era, Data Shows

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Illegal Immigrants

Sanctuary jurisdictions have freed tens of thousands of criminal migrants during President Joe Biden’s time in the White House, federal law enforcement data show.

Sanctuary cities and other localities across the U.S. have freed more than 22,000 criminal migrants wanted by federal immigration authorities since January 2021, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). The numbers pertain to ICE detainer requests ignored by local law enforcement agencies, instances when the enforcement agency provided insufficient notice to ICE or early releases of migrants subjected to detainer requests.

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Florida Sues Former FEMA Officials over Hurricane Helene, Milton Failures

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Ashley Moody

The state of Florida is suing current and former federal employees personally for allegedly ignoring storm victim households solely because of their political affiliation.

Attorney General Ashley Moody sued current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency officials for “conspiracy to discriminate” against Florida hurricane victims because they expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump.

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Somali Pirate from Minneapolis Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Kidnapping

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Abdi Yusuf Hassan

A Minneapolis man is one of two Somali pirates convicted of kidnapping this week and sentenced to federal prison for 30 years.

Abdi Yusuf Hassan, now 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen and prior resident of Minneapolis, along with Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, now 43, of Mogadishu, Somalia, held American journalist Michael Scott Moore hostage for nearly three years in Somalia after kidnapping him in 2012.

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North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer Demands Answers from Corporate Media Networks Over ‘Biased’ 2024 Election Coverage

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Donald Trump

North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer demanded in a Thursday letter that corporate media networks answer for their “biased” coverage of the presidential election.

The Republican’s letter, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, was addressed to top network executives at Fox, CBS, Disney and NBCUniversal. Cramer’s letter called out the networks for biased coverage of President-elect Donald Trump.

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ISIS-Linked Houston Man Indicted, Planned 9/11 Style Terrorist Attack

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US Atty Alamdar S. Hamdani

A 28-year-old man in Houston, Anas Said, has been indicted and arrested on charges he attempted to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a federally designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

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Texas Officers Apprehend Human Smugglers, Rescue Unaccompanied Children

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Texas DPS rescues unaccompanied minor

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers continue to apprehend human smugglers and rescue unaccompanied minors at the border through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star.

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Judge Greenlights ‘Save Women’s Sports’ Title IX Suit amid More Forfeits over Alleged Trans Player

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Years before University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas drew national attention to males who identify as women dominating girls’ sports through eligibility via gender identity, male sprinters who identify as girls took first and second in Connecticut high school track championships, prompting a go-nowhere Trump administration investigation and lawsuit by parents of the female athletes they defeated.

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J6 Shocker: Phone Companies Dispute FBI Testimony on Pipe Bombs Suspect, Key Lawmaker Reveals

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Cellular carriers have told Congress they possess intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident, directly disputing FBI testimony that agents couldn’t identify a suspect because the phone data was corrupted, a key House chairman tells Just the News.

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Louisiana Law Mandating Ten Commandments in Classrooms as ‘Unconstitutional’

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A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a Louisiana mandate requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom by Jan. 1, deeming the law “unconstitutional on its face.”

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Ex-FEMA Supervisor Says Not Helping Trump Supporters with Disaster Relief Is Not ‘Isolated’ Event

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Marn’i Washington, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) supervisor fired for not helping supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, said Tuesday that this occurrence was not an “isolated” incident.

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Justice Alito Has No Plans to Retire: Report

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito does not intend to retire in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Trump’s election sparked speculation Alito and Thomas, 74 and 76 years old, respectively, would retire to enable Trump to appoint younger conservative justices to the bench. However, people close to the justice told the WSJ this is not a factor in Alito’s plans.

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Trump Attorney to New York AG: We’ll ‘Put Your Fat A– in Prison’ If Lawfare Against Trump Doesn’t End

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New York Attorney General

President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney Mike Davis dared New York Attorney General Letitia James to continue her prosecution of Trump after his electoral victory.

“Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General … I dare you to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” he said on “The Benny Show” podcast on Thursday. 

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Virginia A.G. Miyares Concerned over Potential Foreign Money Seeping into U.S. Election via ActBlue

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Virginia A.G. Jason Miyares

Virginia GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares said this week that he is worried about the potential influence of foreign money impacting U.S. elections through the Democratic online fund-raising platform ActBlue that he is investigating.

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Missouri Secretary of State Sues DOJ over Poll Monitors

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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) sued the Department of Justice on Monday for trying to place poll monitors at polling locations in the state on Election Day. The DOJ announced on Friday that it was planning “to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states” for the general election. One of those jurisdictions is St. Louis.

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Heritage Foundation Lawsuit Seeks ‘Transparency’ on Minnesota’s Voter Roll Maintenance

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Minnesota state leaders are facing a new lawsuit from the Heritage Foundation, which alleges the state has not disclosed crucial details on an estimated 1,000 voters who were removed from the voter rolls.

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DOJ Invokes Civil War-Era Law in Warning Federal Agents Not to Respond to Polling Places with Guns

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In recent days, federal law enforcement agents across the government received a jarring communication from the Justice Department: a warning they could be prosecuted under a Civil War-era law if they respond to an election polling place with guns, even for a fake report of a crime.

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Texas Sees 51 Percent Drop in Border Apprehensions After Operation Lone Star Expands

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Operation Loan Star

Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal border crossers in Texas dropped 51% in one year, according to federal data. The stark decline comes after Gov. Greg Abbott expanded Operation Lone Star border security efforts in the state.

In fiscal 2023, Border Patrol agents reported 1,045,655 apprehensions of illegal border crossers in five U.S. Customs and Border Protection sectors in Texas, excluding those apprehended in New Mexico which fall into one of these sectors, in fiscal 2023. In fiscal 2024, the number dropped to 534,333, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data and exclusive data obtained by The Center Square.

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Secret Service Brass Interfered in Inspector General Assassination Probe

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U.S. Secret Service

Secret Service leaders meddled in an independent government investigation of the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and are still not following many basic agency security protocols for presidential candidates, presidents, and vice presidents in the final days before the election, according to emails reviewed by RealClearPolitics and several sources in the Secret Service community.

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Soros-Backed D.A. Trying to Pull Elon Musk Off Campaign Trail, Legal Expert Says

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Jonathan Turley on Fox News

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s suit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk was “transparently political.”

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Commentary: The Left Wants to Delegitimize the Supreme Court

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Supreme Court

The Biden-Harris administration has made undermining trust in institutions a central tactic. While they claim to fight authoritarianism, their real battle is against the checks and balances that limit their power. For them, separation of powers, Article III, and the First Amendment are affronts to their quest for centralized authority.

Leaks, once a tool for exposing corruption, are now wielded as political weapons — not to uncover wrongdoing but to sow chaos and erode public confidence in the courts. This is not about transparency; it’s about controlling the narrative.

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Pennsylvania Judge Accelerates Elon Musk Giveaway Lawsuit, Will Hold Hearing on Thursday

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A Philadelphia judge on Wednesday rescheduled and relocated a hearing on Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s lawsuit seeking to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway to swing state voters. Krasner sued Musk and his America PAC on Monday, claiming that its $1 million giveaway violated state law because it allegedly operated as a lottery. Under Pennsylvania law, all lotteries must be regulated by the Commonwealth.

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Pro-Palestinian Messages Reportedly Found on Devices at Ballot Box Fires

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Ballot Dropbox

Devices recovered at two ballot box fires in the Pacific Northwest reportedly both contained pro-Palestinian messaging, according to The New York Times.

The words “Free Gaza,” were reportedly emblazoned on the devices that presumably caused the fires Monday in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, an anonymous source within the Portland Police Department (PPD) told The New York Times. The Portland Police Department (PPD) confirmed that the incidents are connected, but have yet to determine the motive.

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Navy Reserve Commander Sentenced for Helping Afghan Nationals Obtain Visas into US In Exchange for Bribes

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Nancy Pelosi in Afghanistan

A federal court on Monday sentenced an American Navy Reserve officer to two-and-a-half years in prison for his role in helping Afghan nationals obtain special visas into the United States in exchange for cash.

Jeromy Pittmann, a 53-year-old U.S. Navy Reserve commander from Florida, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for the years-long scheme which included drafting and submitting fraudulent letters of recommendations on behalf of Afghans who applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The sentencing follows warnings by federal watchdogs that the vetting of Afghans into the U.S. after the botched military pullout of the country was poorly conducted.

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Trump Pledges Compensation Fund for Victims of Migrant Crime

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Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump unveiled a new proposal on Tuesday, pledging to establish a “compensation fund” for victims of migrant crime in the United States.

Speaking to the public during a press conference at Mar-a-Largo, Trump highlighted the growing threat of Tren de Aragua and other international crime syndicates being imported into the U.S. through mass illegal immigration. The Republican candidate pledged to dismantle these migrant gangs and use their seized assets to create a compensation fund for the victims of their crimes.

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Judge Seeks ‘Limited Protective Order’ in Trump Assassination Case

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Ryan Routh

A judge overseeing the case against the man accused of trying to kill former President Donald Trump during a round of golf ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys back to the drawing board on a proposed protective order.

Prosecutors had sought a broad order that would prevent 58-year-old Hawaii resident Ryan Wesley Routh from having access to evidence in the case outside the presence of his attorneys unless authorized by prosecutors.

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Dutch Court Orders Gates to Face COVID Vax Victims; Jury Awards $1 Million Each to Fired Unvaxxed Workers

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A year after promoting passports for the COVID-19 vaccines he helped fund as a way to reopen the global economy, philanthropist Bill Gates complained about their lackluster performance against infection and transmission starting with the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. He even called Omicron “a type of vaccine” whose natural immunity could protect unvaccinated groups.

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Nevada Supreme Court Rules Mail Ballots Received After Election Day Without Postmark Must Be Counted

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Nevada Supreme Court

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on Monday that mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day without a postmark must be counted, rejecting a Republican challenge.

State law requiring mail-in ballots to be counted even with a postmark that “cannot be determined” applies to mail-in ballots that do not have postmarks at all, the state Supreme Court decided.

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Biden DOJ Fights Election Integrity Efforts with Lawsuits Across the Country Ahead of Election Day

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The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is suing states and towns across the country in an effort to thwart election integrity measures ahead of the presidential election, resulting in pushback from election integrity advocates.

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Education Secretary Censors Mom on X for Showing He Supports ‘Pornography in School’: Lawsuit

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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona censored a Rhode Island mother who responded to his criticism of efforts to remove sexually graphic books from public school libraries by posting images from those books on his X account, a First Amendment lawsuit claims.

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Florida Sues Biden-Harris DOJ for Allegedly Blocking Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation

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Ashley Moody

Florida sued the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday for allegedly blocking the state’s investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt.

Federal officials almost immediately began “taking steps to halt the state’s investigation” into Ryan Wesley Routh, who was indicted for attempting  to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September, the lawsuit states.

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Report: Immigration Courts Broke Records in Fiscal 2024

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The number of cases before federal immigration judges totaled nearly 1.8 million, a record, in fiscal 2024, according to the latest analysis by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan, independent research organization.

Federal immigration courts fall under the Department of Justice and are located in 28 states, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico. The DOJ’s fiscal 2024 year was Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024.

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Texas Sues Administration for Not Verifying Voter Registration Citizenship Info

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Following Florida, Texas sued the Biden-Harris administration Tuesday after requesting citizenship status information about registered voters in Texas, and not receiving it from federal agencies as required by law.

Last week, a coalition of attorneys general, including from Florida and Texas, called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide the requested information. They made the requests as multiple states removed thousands of noncitizens from their voter rolls. After not receiving the information, Florida sued last week. Other states in the coalition are also expected to sue.

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