U.S. President Donald Trump fired new barbs Wednesday at Jeff Sessions, his embattled attorney general, in his latest salvo against the country’s top law enforcement official. In a pair of Twitter comments, Trump questioned why Sessions has not replaced Andrew McCabe, the current acting chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Trump described McCabe as […]
U.S. President Donald Trump wasted no time Monday night in firing an acting attorney general who earlier in the day ordered the Justice Department not to defend his executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven mostly Muslim countries. A White House statement said Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, “betrayed […]
The U.S. state of North Carolina sued the federal government Monday to keep its law requiring transgender people to use restrooms that correspond to their gender at birth rather than their self-identified gender. The country’s Justice Department last week claimed the state law violated national civil rights standards. It gave North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory […]
Frustrated by the State of Alaska’s ongoing delays in its review of the conviction of Alaskans George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent—widely known as the “Fairbanks Four”—U.S. Senator Mark Begich has requested a formal review of the case by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). In his […]