“The question this drastic firing raises is: Are there even worse ethics problems Bondi is trying to hide?” said one watchdog campaigner. Further escalating concerns over U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s control of the Department of Justice, Joseph Tirrell announced Monday on a professional networking website that he was fired as director of the Departmental Ethics Office. […]
Rep. Ro Khanna said the vote was about: “Are you on the side of America’s children? Or are you on the side of the rich and powerful who have had their thumb on the scales and shafted Americans for decades?” Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously voted against forcing the Department of Justice […]
“No one wants to defend Trump’s bullshit policies before the courts,” said one critic of the president. Reuters reported Monday that nearly two-thirds of attorneys in the section of the U.S. Department of Justice charged with defending President Donald Trump’s policy have voluntarily left the unit or announced plans to resign since his November election. The list […]
“President Trump and his Christian nationalist allies are once again exploiting religion to boost their own political power,” said the head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Thursday took a step toward blocking a proposed settlement that would officially allow churches to endorse […]