Devlin Barrett
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New York Times reporter covering Justice Dept and FBI. Author "October Surprise.” (202) 617-6330
Joined April 2009
Trump Administration Overrules DC Police, Declares Nation’s Capital No Longer a Sanctuary City via @NYTimes.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded local policies that prevented the police from helping with immigration enforcement, potentially setting the stage for a conflict between federal and local...
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RT @weeklyshowpod: Jon is joined by former FBI Assistant Special Agent In Charge Michael Feinberg and The New York Times’ @DevlinBarrett to….
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RT @kyledcheney: ENGELMEYER: Any person "who reviewed these materials expecting, based on the Government’s representations, to learn new in….
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Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says via @NYTimes.
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Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted Mr. al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas, which he had denied.
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New: The Justice Dept has issued subpoenas as it investigates whether NY Attorney General Letitia James violated the civil rights of. Donald Trump
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Letitia James, New York’s attorney general and a longtime nemesis of the president, is being investigated in two separate inquiries, in a remarkable use of executive power to pursue a foe.
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Turns out the first Emil Bove-related whistleblower came forward well before his nomination, but the Justice Department's inspector general did. nothing. Some DoJ vets say the ethics watchdog has gone dark in a time of deep turmoil:
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A complaint concerning a top Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, went unnoticed for more than two months, raising worries that an internal watchdog has gone dormant.
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Internal DOJ texts and emails reveal the gallows humor of lawyers ordered to take a high-risk approach to court orders. “At this point, why don’t we just submit an emoji of a middle finger as our filing," Reuveni told a colleague.
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In An Interview With The Times, Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Erez Reuveni Warns of Trump Administration’s Assault on the Law
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In an interview with The New York Times, a former Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, said officials pressed subordinates to mislead judges, and dared the courts to stop it.
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NEW: Senior Justice Dept officials are exploring whether they can bring criminal charges against state and local election officials.
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Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the department and the threat of criminalization into the election system.
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More than an hour into the Emil Bove confirmation hearing to become a federal appeals court judge, much of the discussion has been around our story yesterday:
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Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.
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RT @ffrommer: My story for @thedispatch recounting how some US House members were furious when Montreal - "a foreign city" as they called i….
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How baseball ‘reshored’ the team that became the Nationals 20 years ago.
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New: Investigators See No Criminality by E.P.A. Officials in Contentious Probe of Biden-Era Grants
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A contentious investigation that questioned the legality of E.P.A. grants has found very little to suggest government employees violated the law.
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NEW: Trump Officials Plan to Release Audio of Biden Special Counsel Interview
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Republicans have long sought to make public a recording of the 2023 interview, arguing that it might offer evidence of a decline in Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s mental acuity.
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Trump Administration Aims to Use 2,000 F.B.I., Drug and Gun Agents For Immigration Enforcement in 25 US Cities
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The Justice Department plans to bolster enforcement and deportation work in 25 cities across the United States.
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Behind the scenes at the Justice Dept, prosecutors and a judge fought against a Trump appointee’s efforts to aggressively criminally investigate activists at Columbia University
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Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.
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Justice Dept. Firings Prompt a Torrent of Legal Fights, as appeals to judges who enforce civil service laws skyrocket in just two months
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A series of dismissals by the Trump administration has flooded a little-known group of administrative judges who protect civil servants.
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Mass exodus underway today at the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Dept, where career lawyers say the Trump administration has changed not just the priorities, but the entire mission of protecting people's rights
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Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which appointees intend to reshape to enact President Trump’s agenda.
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US officials use a point system to decide if someone is a Tren de Aragua member. A tattoo linked to the group is worth 4 points. Wearing clothes linked to the group is another 4 points. It takes 8 points to “validate” someone as a Tren de Aragua member
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The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal...
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Under Pressure: the Justice Dept's civil division increasingly finds itself squeezed between judges demanding clear answers to basic questions, and political appointee bosses insisting on a take-no-prisoners approach in court
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Inside the department’s civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses’ instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.
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