Epstein Secrets

e to curb controversial policing policies. The proposed spending bill for the 2021 fiscal year, which begins in October, would add $972.5 million to the Justice Department's coffers. Of those funds, $596.7 million would go toward police practice overhauls. The remaining funds would be used to boost the FBI's investigati

third letter "requesting documents about the Obama and Trump administration's overtures toward Ukraine." In a previous letter Wyden "claimed...that the State Department sent thousands of pages of documents to Republican chairmen for their investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter while i

to reduce violent gun crimes." DO3: Probe Of FBI's Handling Of Nassar Case Is Ongoing. The Orange County (CA) Register (7/7, Reid, 546K) reports, "The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation's handling of sexual abuse allegations against former U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnast

to department's inspector general." According to the OCR, "Michael E. Horowitz, the inspector, in a letter to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) stated that the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General's 22-month investigation 'of the allegations concerning the FBI's handling of the Nassar investigation is ongoing, and we

ring Head Injury In A Fall. The Washington Post (7/7, Barnes, 14.2M) reports that a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday that "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a fall at a Maryland country club last month that required an overnight stay in the hospital." Roberts "was taken by ambulance to a hospit

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

d a momentous term with a trove of decisions more reflective of public opinion than of the nation's divisive political discourse, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as a formidable counterpart to President Trump and the Congress." However, the Post adds, "it wasn't just Roberts," highlighting the court'

of his friend Roger Stone's criminal sentence is one of the most severe affronts to the rule of law during the Trump administration," but "a future Justice Department would be well within its rights to open a new investigation into Stone's activities." Stone's "behavior likely runs afoul of other federal laws," an

drug dilution scheme drew national headlines 19 years ago, is being released from prison seven years early." The Post adds, "In a letter last week, the U.S. Justice Department informed some of Courtney's victims and members of their families that Courtney will be moved to a halfway house this week and then to home confine

asn't on the tarmac to greet...Pence on Tuesday morning because he has tested positive for coronavirus, according to an email blast to employees of the state Department of Justice." Fox News (7/14, Phillips, 27.59M) notes on its website that Landry said in a statement, "Out of an overabundance of caution with the vice preside

and appeals courts." The Washington Post (7/14, Berman, 14.2M) says that "although the author is unclear, the opinion was the work of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh." According to Reuters (7/14, Allen, Lynch), "Just 10 min

attorney general manipulating federal law enforcement to serve their political interests. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate, writing, "This situation has all the indicia of improper political interference in a criminal prosecution." 17 E

e a reason, their asking to do so was highly unusual and suggested they could not ethically affix their names to the government's revised position. Career Justice Department lawyers similarly moved in 2018 to withdraw from a case when the Trump administration decided it would not defend the Affordable Care Act against a

and law professors, who have called his rants "worse than wrong" and "dangerous." His frequent references to "Obama judges" prompted Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to issue a rare rebuke of the president in 2018. Trump has repeatedly gone after judges who rule against him and questioned the judiciary's constit

n the Capitol, announced Thursday that he opposes the establishment of an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly assault. ... `The Justice Department is currently conducting one of the largest federal criminal investigations in history and has already made hundreds of arrests. Congress has also be

l begin wearing body cameras. With that change, the US Park Police will become "one of the few federal police" organizations that use body cameras. The US Department of Justice, which has "more than 43,000 sworn agents in the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Mar

he confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett "didn't just give conservatives on the court a 6-3 majority; it also means Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is no longer as likely to be a swing vote on the court - marking a sudden change to the amount of power Roberts has to steer the direction of the c

e a reason, their asking to do so was highly unusual and suggested they could not ethically affix their names to the government's revised position. Career Justice Department lawyers similarly moved in 2018 to withdraw from a case when the Trump administration decided it would not defend the Affordable Care Act against a

attorney general manipulating federal law enforcement to serve their political interests. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate, writing, "This situation has all the indicia of improper political interference in a criminal prosecution." David

and law professors, who have called his rants "worse than wrong" and "dangerous." His frequent references to "Obama judges" prompted Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to issue a rare rebuke of the president in 2018. Trump has repeatedly gone after judges who rule against him and questioned the judiciary's constit

attorney general manipulating federal law enforcement to serve their political interests. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate, writing, "This situation has all the indicia of improper political interference in a criminal prosecution." 17 E

e a reason, their asking to do so was highly unusual and suggested they could not ethically affix their names to the government's revised position. Career Justice Department lawyers similarly moved in 2018 to withdraw from a case when the Trump administration decided it would not defend the Affordable Care Act against a

and law professors, who have called his rants "worse than wrong" and "dangerous." His frequent references to "Obama judges" prompted Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to issue a rare rebuke of the president in 2018. Trump has repeatedly gone after judges who rule against him and questioned the judiciary's constit