WASHINGTON — A crucial and contentious midterm election arrives next week, and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has been scrambling with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that defense lawyers, Democrats and other critics say is no coincidence and reeks…
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The Indiana Parole Board has made their recommendation about Jeffrey Weisheit to Governor Mike Braun. The unanimously recommend that he deny Weisheit’s request for clemency. Watch 14 News when we are live, right here: Weisheit is on death…
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to retroactively reinstate and compensate Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, ruling Monday that the administration violated civil service protections when it fired her as a Manhattan prosecutor. The…
“Comey’s supervisors and peers consistently lauded her work, describing her as a ‘brilliant lawyer and a gifted supervisor,’ ‘the lawyer the office turns to when legal excellence is a must,’ and ‘an outstanding AUSA in every respect’ with ‘judgment, work…
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration’s firing of two Democrats who served on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was illegal. Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The Indiana Parole Board wants Gov. Mike Braun to deny a clemency request from death row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit, who is set to be executed next week. The board recommended keeping Weisheit’s death sentence rather than reducing it…
A group of immigration judges, including one from Massachusetts, are demanding to know why the Trump administration fired them despite a massive backlog in the Executive Office of Immigration Review, records show. Among those suddenly terminated in February was Kerry…
The Department of Justice charged former FBI Director James Comey again—this time with two counts of violating the Espionage Act. What To Make Of The Latest Charges Against James Comey: Criminal Defense Attorney Breaks It Down The Department of…
When President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing him from a possible prison sentence for felony convictions tied to his crack cocaine addiction, some involved in the local recovery and criminal justice communities saw a familiar…
US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House en route to Iowa, in Washington, DC, US, October 22, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard President Donald Trump risks reviving an Espionage Act prosecution over his alleged…
Where criminal justice meets politics in Washington: prosecutions of political figures, pardons and the fights inside the FBI and the Justice Department.
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