Andrew Goudsward
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DC legal reporter @reuters Formerly: @TheNLJ @AsburyParkPress, @gwhatchet. Get in touch: [email protected]
Washington D.C.
Joined May 2015
🔊 'This ruling ... is extraordinary … it's scathing in its language of how prosecutors went about this investigation and then handling the grand jury.' @AGoudsward on Reuters World News on how a judge has found missteps in the probe of ex-FBI chief https://t.co/n8vryc6sN0
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US Justice Dept civil rights unit faces mass exodus
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The U.S. Justice Department office tasked with protecting peoples' civil rights has lost 368 employees since President Donald Trump took office, in a mass exodus that has coincided with a dramatic...
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NEW: The Justice Department unit defending Trump administration policies in trial courts has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff since Trump's election. Sources cited concerns about the legality of Trump's policies and fears of violating ethical duties.
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Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.
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The Public Integrity Section is not filing new cases. Its staff has been reduced from more than 30 attorneys to four. And its role reviewing potential cases against members of Congress has been suspended. By me, @nedmparker1 @byPeterEisler and @AGoudsward
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Stripped of its authority and nearly all its staff, the U.S. Justice Department’s storied Public Integrity Section is on life support. Former prosecutors say the overhaul could make it easier to...
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NEW: Three federal prosecutors who brought criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned in protest on Tuesday, after they said the Justice Department wrongfully pressured them to admit to wrongdoing when they refused orders to drop the case.
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Trump administration officials have leveled allegations that immigrant detainees are gang leaders and domestic terrorists. They haven't always backed up those claims with evidence in court w/ @tedhesson
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Prosecutors normally avoid making public allegations of serious criminal conduct without presenting evidence in court to back up those charges, legal experts say.
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NEW: The FBI has cut staff in a section overseeing domestic terrorism investigations and has stopped internally tagging cases tied to domestic violent extremism, sources told me and @SarahNLynch
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The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter...
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President Donald Trump's top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. on Friday demoted top leadership serving in the fraud, public corruption and civil rights section on Friday, sending them back to serve in entry-level positions. Updates forthcoming. With @AGoudsward
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Quinn Emanuel clocks in at $3,000 an hour - for at least some senior partners there https://t.co/yFazVgCfjC
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A leading attorney for billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk and embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams now has a standard billing rate of $3,000 an hour, placing him on the top shelf among even the priciest...
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“The resignation illustrated tensions between the traditional U.S. conservative legal movement and Trump's desire to control the federal government.” Latest on the Eric Adams fallout w/ @jackqueen_ @mike_d_spector @SarahNLynch https://t.co/nER8RWUM73
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Danielle Sassoon resigned rather than going along with an order to drop charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams, illustrating the tensions between the traditional conservative Republican legal...
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Trump's Justice Department hits the brakes on anti-corruption enforcement - https://t.co/ACvk6jggCI by @AGoudsward and me
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The U.S. Justice Department has sharply stepped back its anti-corruption efforts under President Donald Trump, from loosening enforcement of laws meant to stop companies from bribing foreign offici...
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New: We’ve spoken with dozens of officials + businesses across the US whose federal grant funds remain frozen this week by the Trump administration. Billions of $ appropriated by Congress & thousands of jobs across sectors are on the chopping block in red & blue states >
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New: Career Justice Department officials reassigned by the Trump administration include at least two DOJ lawyers who played roles in investigations into Trump w/@SarahNLynch
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Donald Trump's administration has reassigned about 20 senior career Justice Department attorneys, two sources familiar with the moves told Reuters, as the new president moves swiftly to shake up an...
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A federal judge who has overseen scores of criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol condemned President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons, saying they reflect a 'revisionist myth' about the riot https://t.co/LlSUqIaZlN
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@FBI Director Chris Wray has told his staff he intends to leave the bureau in January.
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DOJ v. DEI: Trump's Justice Department likely to target diversity programs https://t.co/DXg6B3nBY7
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Trump vows to pardon Jan. 6 defendants on Day One https://t.co/vrIvAZkA1y w/ @AGoudsward
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President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he would act on his first day in office to pardon rioters involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, further building...
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Breaking: US appeals court rejects challenges to law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by early next year
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