Epstein Secrets

igative journalism.- -- Trump once threw a party with "28 girls" at Mar-a-Lago. He and Epstein were the only men there. The Times's Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman dig into the relationship: "The year was 1992 and the event was a `calendar girl' competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based busi

continues to suffer legal setbacks. In a case involving his push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a district court judge rejected the Justice Department's request to change out its team of lawyers. Separately, an appellate court in New York upheld a EFTA00043082 lower court's decision that it is unc

ourtroom for US. Engelhardt was grilling attorneys representing Democratic attorneys general and the Democratic House. Normally it would have been Justice Department lawyers defending a federal law, but the Trump administration is refusing to do so and told the 5th Circuit this spring that the administration agr

opposes EFTA00043084 Trump's decision not to defend the health-care law in court. "The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land, and it is the Department of Justice's duty to defend it," Collins said. 3) "Democrats are savoring the moment," Paige Winfield Cunningham reports in the Health 202. "They're spending th

ren traumatized, in acute distress after parental separations wgxa.tv After a federal judge ordered the children reunified with their parents, .... the Trump Justice Department, which oversees the Federal Bureau of Prisons. ... Southeastern US residents brace for Hurricane Dorian as Bahamians survey damage wgxa.tv South

se off China. Don't ban China.' I did it anyway. I sort of didn't listen to my experts and I banned China. We would have been in much worse shape." Maggie Haberman of the New York Times (7/12, Haberman, 18.61M) writes that "the move to treat Dr. Fauci...as if he were a warring political rival came as he has gro

f the very few people to receive clemency from Trump, with most being political allies who appealed directly to the White House instead of following Justice Department protocol." However, the Post adds Stone also "stands out as the first whose conviction grew from an investigation that also examined the president's

el Flynn Case. EFTA00150698 The Washington Examiner (7/10, Chaitin, 448K) reported an appeals court "stayed a decision ordering a judge to accept the Justice Department's motion to dismiss its criminal case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn." The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit "issued an order on Friday

id he would testify on July 20" only if the panel proceeds with "hearings for Trump administration nominees for the ambassadors to Ukraine and Peru, the State Department legal adviser, an undersecretary and an assistant secretary." Bloomberg describes the letter as "an unusual challenge to congressional oversight, p

sta-area men were among ten defendants indicted in federal court on drug and gun charges." According to the Chronicle, "The indictments are part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Project Guardian, an initiative to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws. Most of the indictments targeted previously convicted fel

ded that U.S. intelligence officials believed that the president’s associates “were most likely unaware of any Chinese effort. Rosenberg, Matthew and Maggie Haberman. “When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn.” New York Times. October 24, 2018. https://www.nytimes. com/2018/10/24/us

ter as agents of a foreign government is a partial solution.*’ And in late 2017, Russia’s RT registered as a foreign agent@@ while in September 2018, the US Justice Department reportedly also ordered CGTN and Xinhua to register as agents of a foreign power.*! When it comes to independent Chinese-language media, the US gov

rify which list an item is controlled on, and reduce government and industry uncertainty about whether particular items are subject to the control of the State Department or the Commerce Department; and are structurally aligned so that they potentially can be combined into a single list of controlled items.** Moreover

l Chinese retribution against family members still in China, they have not. 58 Interview with FCC official. 59 O’Keeffe, Kate and Aruna Viswanatha. “Justice Department Has Ordered Key Chinese State Media Firms to Register as Foreign Agents.” Wall Street Journal. September 18, 2018. https://www.wsj.com /articles/just

dez-as-head-of-international -corporate-affairs-300627805.html. 22 Author’s analysis of OpenSecrets data. 23 “Exhibit A to Registration Statement.” US Department of Justice. August 9, 2017. https://www.fara.gov /docs/6452-Exhibit-AB-20170809-1.pdf. 24 “Client Profile: Summary, 2017.” Open Secrets. Accessed March 9, 2018

igative journalism.- -- Trump once threw a party with "28 girls" at Mar-a- Lago. He and Epstein were the only men there. The Times's Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman dig into the relationship', "The year was 1992 and the event was a 'calendar girl' competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based bu

continues to suffer legal setbacks. In a case involving his push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a district court judge rejected the Justice Department's request to change out its team of lawyers. Separately, an appellate court in New York upheld a lower court's decision that it is unconstitutional f

nt saying she opposes Trump's decision not to defend the health-care law in court. "The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land, and it is the Department of Justice's duty to defend it," Collins said. 3) "Democrats are savoring the moment," Paige Winfield Cunningham reports in the Health 202. "They're spending

E BREAK --- 2020 WATCH: -- Jared Kushner's global role is shrinking as his role in the president's reelection campaign grows. From Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman in the Times: "When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the kil

ther-in-law: Mr. Trump's 2020 re-election campaign. ... [Kushner] sees no reason to involve himself as extensively in international issues now that the State Department is run by [Mike] Pompeo, whom he sees as far more competent than his predecessor, Rex W. Tillerson." -- Mike Bloomberg won't release the women who