Concern about potential political bias at the Department of Justice (DOJ) was bipartisan on Capitol Hill on March 1 as Attorney General Merrick Garland was set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Merrick Garland, sadly, has been the most political attorney general we’ve ever had,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told NTD News, sister outlet […]
Republican lawmakers are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden over his handling of classified materials after leaving the vice presidency. One of the leading Republicans making the demand is Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who sent a letter to Garland on Jan. 11, criticizing the Department […]
President Joe Biden did not know prior to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s announcement that Garland was appointing a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump, the White House said hours after the announcement. “No, he was not aware. We were not aware,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a press briefing […]
Former President Donald Trump made a statement in response to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to investigate him, with Trump calling the move a “horrendous abuse of power,” a “hoax,” and part of a string of politically-motivated “witch hunts.” Trump’s remarks Friday night at Mar-a-Lago came after Garland, who heads the […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that the Department of Justice is appointing a special counsel to oversee a probe involving former President Donald Trump, who just launched a 2024 presidential bid.
Top U.S. senators are pressing the FBI’s director and the attorney general for answers on how the government paid the primary source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier, which has been proven to be full of baseless information. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the top […]
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking that the Department of Justice (DOJ) keep its hands off whistleblowers. Grassley’s letter came in the context of a memo issued by Garland on Aug. 30 to DOJ employees. The memo instructed employees that all direct communications with Congress are prohibited. In […]
The Biden administration has said that judges may take into consideration the mental health of criminal illegal immigrants who have been convicted of “particularly serious crimes” when considering asylum cases. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, illegal immigrants seeking entry into the country would be made ineligible for both asylum and withholding of removal—whereby illegal immigrants remain in the United States […]
