Epstein Secrets

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

A BEAR IN THE WOODS: -- A congressional panel grilled former Trump associate Felix Sater for more details on the president's failed Moscow project. Karoun Demirjian and Tom Hamburger report: "Sater met privately with House Intelligence Committee staffers investigating interference in the 2016 EFTA000

equiring people who try to influence American policy or opinion at the direction of foreign governments or entities to disclose their activities to the Justice Department, people familiar with the case said. The inquiry had proceeded far enough last month that Mr. Barrack, who played an influential role in the campai

onfronting career professionals and political appointees in the Department's history,' wrote Chang, who had no diplomatic experience before joining the State Department. ...Chang, in her rebuttal document, argued that her 'background was fully investigated by the FBI and State Department's Diplomatic Security. No q

a protest and not as surrender,' closing by saying that stepping down was 'the only acceptable moral and ethical option for me at this time.' ... 'The Department of State is experiencing what I and many believe is the worst and most profound moral crisis confronting career professionals and political appointees in th

ning to identify anyone by name." -- "Last year, Ratcliffe's name was floated as a possible replacement for former attorney general Jeff Sessions," Karoun Demirjian notes in a sidebar. "He joined the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year, where he has been considered the GOP's replacement fo

money. Lawmakers also heard last night from Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs. Hale, the third-highest-ranking official at the State Department, shed more light on the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine: "'I believe she should have been able to stay at the post and

much evidence has not been turned over, which gives Democrats usable evidence to substantiate a likely article of impeachment based on obstruction. Karoun Demirjian reports: "'Based on a sample of the documents attached to Ambassador Sondland's statement ... we can see why Pompeo and [Trump] have made