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I cover the Justice Department for @WSJ . I’m from Denver. Story ideas welcome: sadie.gurman @wsj .com #IStandWithEvan
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NEW: “My favorite song is ‘Shake It Off.’” Who Knew? Attorney General Merrick Garland is a longtime Swiftie, a diehard Taylor Swift fan.
Please read my first
@WSJ
a-hed!
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NEW: Trump also pushed DOJ to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate Biden’s win, but his own appointees refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit. An outside lawyer working for Trump even drafted a brief for DOJ to file. w/
@JessBravin
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More: A senior Justice Department official, at the behest of the White House, called Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak and told him he needed to step down because he wasn’t pursuing vote-fraud allegations to Trump’s satisfaction. w/
@aviswanatha
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Director Wray has arrived at DOJ to give Garland one of his first briefings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation.
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SCOOP: FBI search at Mar-a-Lago removed 11 sets of classified information, photo binders, handwritten notes, according to copy of inventory reviewed by
@WSJ
. W/
@learyreports
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NEW: Marc Short was not the only Pence advisor who testified before a grand jury in connection w/ the Justice Department's expanding Jan. 6 probe — so did Pence's legal counsel, Greg Jacob.
Prosecutors asked about Eastman, Giuliani & more. w/
@aviswanatha
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New: The
@FBI
searched Mar-a-Lago in part because agents believed there was still more classified info there after
@USNatArchives
earlier retrieved 15 boxes of WH documents from the home.
Agents hauled away ~ 10 more boxes. W/
@learyreports
@aviswanatha
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Just in: Kash Patel, a close Trump aide, is set to soon testify before a federal grand jury probing the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after receiving immunity. W/
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The suspected attacker has espoused extreme right wing views on social media, including conspiracy theories about Covid-19, according to one of the law enforcement officials. W/
@nataliewsj
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SCOOP: AG Garland scooped ice cream for Justice Department employees in the Great Hall on this balmy afternoon. 🍨
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New: After some confusion, ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison due to coronavirus concerns and is expected to serve the rest of his 3-year sentence from home.
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The
@FBI
agents took around 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Trump’s ally Roger Stone, a list of items removed from the property shows. Also included in the list was information about the “President of France.
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s inaugural appearance in the Great Hall.
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NEW: White House officials pushed Atlanta’s top federal prosecutor to resign before Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs because Trump was upset he wasn’t doing enough to investigate the president’s allegations of election fraud. w/
@aviswanatha
@cammcwhirter
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“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump said, per the notes, after Rosen told him the Justice Department “can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election, doesn’t work that way.”
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The list includes references to one set of documents marked as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents." It also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.
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Agents sought to search “the 45 Office,” and "storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by [the former president] and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.”
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Barr: "All the other documents taken... they still belong to the government and go to the Archives...News clippings and other things that were in the boxes... those were seizable under the warrant because they show the conditions under which the classified information was held."
Bill Barr to Fox News: "Well, I think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red herring... at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it’s a waste of time."
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New: As talks between
@FBI
& Trump lawyers soured between June & August, a witness told investigators there may be more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. DOJ officials began to distrust Trump's team.
Then, agents showed up. w/
@learyreports
@aviswanatha
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Greetings from DOJ, where we’re awaiting the arrival of soon-to-be attorney general Merrick Garland. He’ll be sworn in just after 9 am, address the workforce at 10, and then attend briefings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation. Stay tuned!
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In his first interview since the Mueller probe ended, Rod Rosenstein beat back suggestions that William Barr is trying to mislead the public
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More: A group of Republican state AGs spoke w/ Barr about getting DOJ to back their claim, particularly if SCOTUS asked for DOJ's views on the case. Barr told them the department couldn't be counted on to support them. W/
@JessBravin
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NEW: Docs released today by the
@OversightDems
confirm two big
@WSJ
scoops, that Trump pushed out Atlanta’s U.S. attorney over false election fraud claims AND pushed DOJ to go to SCOTUS to overturn Biden’s win. Read that story ⬇️
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The Honorable Merrick B. Garland was sworn-in as the nation’s 86th Attorney General at 9:18 am ET, per
@AnthonyColeyDOJ
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“If you only start packing with two days left to go, you’re just running low on time,” a former aide said. “And if he’s the one just throwing things in boxes, who knows what could happen?”
@rebeccaballhaus
@vmsalama
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Justice Department officials canceled an event on gender diversity featuring former U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu — who was denied top posts at DOJ & Treasury — over a new executive order from President Trump ending federal diversity and gender bias trainings.
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WOW: Less than a day after asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, police arrested Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles on Wednesday on suspicion of murder 🚨
Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of RJ reporter
@JGermanRJ
, confirmed
@Sheriff_LVMPD
.
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“If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way,” Newsom said, per
@cmaiduc
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to allow private citizens to sue gun manufacturers, modeling his proposal after the legal framework used in the Texas law banning abortions past six weeks
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NEW w/
@aviswanatha
: Barr is so hard-charging within DOJ that even his close aides call him "the Buffalo." That style has long rankled Democrats, but the unceremonious dismissal of Berman has even some friends questioning his management style.
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New: Calls for some reinforcements took hours to approve as police and federal agents tried to squelch the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Trump.
@nancyayoussef
@scottmcalvert
@ailworth
@dnvolz
@glubold
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On the Jan. 6 hearings, Garland said Monday: "I am watching, I will be watching all of the hearings. I may not be able to watch all of it live, but I'm sure I will be watching all of it, and I can assure you the January 6 prosecutors are watching all of the hearings as well."
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“Top-level, inner-circle people are some of the last you’d expect to be subpoenaed,”
@RDEliason
said. “When I see subpoenas to the highest-level people, that makes me think they’re close to wrapping up.” W/
@cryanbarber
@aviswanatha
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“The president is exercising powers that do not really belong to him,” retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens tells
@JessBravin
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New: The
@FBI
is investigating the activities of a former U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer who oversaw a social-media account involved in the spread of intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Airman Jack Teixeira. W/
@glubold
@bobmackin
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“The attorney general should have been well aware of federal prison mismanagement and understaffing before Mr. Epstein’s suicide,”
@SenatorDurbin
says.
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Justice Ginsburg’s death injected the prospect of an unexpected and likely bitter nomination fight into the final weeks of the presidential campaign,
@brkend
writes.
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A Justice Department official says Barr won't deliver his principal conclusions from Mueller's report to Congress today, but they are still expected this weekend.
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The
@FBI
has identified at least six juveniles believed to be involved in a rash of bomb threats directed at places of worship and HBCUs, law-enforcement officials said. They are thought to have used a spoofed number to disguise the source of the calls.
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Another former aide said uncertainty pervaded the West Wing in the final weeks as the president continued to contest the election. “It was a weird time,” the aide said. “It was like, are we doing this? Are we not doing this?”
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NEW: Top
@FBI
officials have asked agents to flag all investigations into harassment/intimidation of educators w/ a "threat tag" that some worry will open the door for the bureau to collect information on parents who protest school policies. w/
@aviswanatha
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Rosenstein to
@WSJ
on Mueller probe: “At the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted.”
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The result was a rushed and chaotic exit from the White House that is now at the center of a federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents and other presidential material after leaving office. A great story by
@rebeccaballhaus
@vmsalama
@learyreports
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A person familiar w/ the matter identified the judge who approved the warrant as Bruce Reinhart. No one answered the phone in his chambers Tuesday. Judges who usually review such requests are not presidentially appointed but are named by the judges on the federal district court.
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The Justice Department would support legislation to allow some of the money seized from Russian oligarchs to go directly to Ukraine and will soon seek other changes to the law that would make it easier to go after those proceeds, Garland said.
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NEW: A retired firefighter from Pennsylvania was arrested Thursday for allegedly throwing a fire extinguisher that hit three police officers at the pro-Trump riot (tho not the fire extinguisher that killed Officer Sicknick). via
@aviswanatha
@ailworth
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NEW: Supreme Court investigators probing the May leak of the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade have narrowed their inquiry to a small number of suspects including law clerks, but have yet to conclusively identify the alleged culprit. w/
@JessBravin
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FBI officials showed up Monday with instructions to keep the search as unobtrusive as possible, with agents dressed in plainclothes and told not to take any weapons, people familiar with the plan said. They hauled away about 10 boxes.
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NEW: Investigators have made a preliminary determination that the officer who killed Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot shouldn’t be charged. w/
@aviswanatha
@Tawnell
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DOJ said “portions of the district court’s injunction that have not been stayed restrict the government’s ability to vindicate the strong public interest in proceeding expeditiously w/ the criminal and national security investigation that underlies these proceedings.”
@JanNWolfe
The DOJ is seeking to fast-track its appeal of a ruling that delayed its investigation into documents seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is going to watch as much of the
@January6thCmte
televised hearings as he is able, a Justice Department official said Thursday night.
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Prosecutors also asked detailed questions about Rudy Giuliani, who forwarded to Pence’s office letters from individual state legislators urging Pence to accept false slates of electors claiming Trump won from states he actually lost.
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A person familiar with the warrant said the warrant refers to “presidential documents” but included few specifics. Trump was in New York at the time, as the resort is mostly dormant during the summer months. The FBI met U.S. Secret Service employees Monday to alert them.
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New: Earlier this week, Justice Department officials including Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen privately discussed how to handle the planned protest, and concluded they saw little role for themselves in crowd control. W/
@aviswanatha
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Monday’s search came after weeks of internal deliberation among senior Justice Department and FBI officials and marked an escalation of their investigation into Trump’s handling of classified material, people familiar with the matter said.
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New: Republicans have a new idea for how to take Washington politics out of the
@FBI
: Take the FBI out of Washington — and send it to Huntsville. W/
@siobhanehughes
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Garland is expected to make a statement in T-minus 45, four days after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. 🚨
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Barr writes that he was convinced that Trump could have won re-election in 2020 if he had “just exercised a modicum of self-restraint, moderating even a little of his pettiness.”
“The election was not ‘stolen,’” Mr. Barr writes. “Trump lost it.”
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One area of interest to prosecutors was a Jan. 4, 2021 Oval Office meeting where conservative lawyer John Eastman pushed Pence, in Trump’s presence, to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings & ask several state legislatures to re-examine the results
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NEW: Bipartisan talks aimed at overhauling police tactics have ended with no agreement,
@CoryBooker
told
@WSJ
. Booker called
@SenatorTimScott
today to tell him they were done negotiating after Scott didn’t accept Democrats' final offer. w/
@elizacollins1
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Coronavirus briefing opens with news about counter-narcotics operations. Trump says Mexican cartels are taking advantage of the pandemic. “The cartels have to be defeated, both for the people of this country and the people of Venezuela and Mexico,” Barr says.
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NEW: The Biden administration is preparing to sue Texas as soon as Thursday over a new law banning most abortions, an action that would set off a federal-state clash as the future of abortion rights becomes an ever-more-pressing question before the courts.
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All of
@evangershkovich
’s reporting is no longer behind a paywall and free to read. Please do.
#istandwithevan
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Investigators spoke to at least two Trump aides before
@FBI
searched Mar-a-Lago and have sought to talk to them again in recent weeks, as DOJ examines possible obstruction of its efforts to retrieve hundreds of government documents. W/
@learyreports
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As Trump stokes concerns about mail-in ballots, FBI Director Chris Wray today said the bureau has “not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise.”
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The new Democratic chairman, California Rep. Adam Schiff, said the panel had seen credible reports of money laundering and financial leverage. Per
@ByronTau
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DOJ will require federal agents to wear cameras during arrests & searches, reversing longstanding policy as more local police chiefs mandate the devices for accountability. Comes after the shooting of Winston Smith by MN deputies who weren't using cameras.
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New: Garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve the application for a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, a sign of his cautious approach that will be tested over coming months. The decision had been the subject of weeks of meetings. w/
@aviswanatha
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New: Evan Corcoran wasn’t the only Trump lawyer who appeared before a grand jury probing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — so did Christina Bobb, as special counsel Jack Smith’s probe ramps up.
@cryanbarber
@learyreports
scoop
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Sessions praised Rosenstein this morning, breaking from prepared remarks at a speech on human trafficking. He says Rod and No. 3 Rachel Brand are experienced lawyers who "represent the kind of quality and leadership that we want in the department."
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UPDATE: Garland told the nation’s largest law-enforcement groups that an investigation into Minneapolis Police will be the first—but not last—broad civil-rights probe of a local agency that DOJ intends to launch as it takes a larger role in local policing.
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NEW: Officials in Justice Department's civil rights division pushed to open a pattern-or-practice investigation into Minneapolis PD after Floyd's killing, but Barr opposed it, saying it would sap officer morale at a time of turmoil.
Will DOJ open one now?
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“I have to tell you that when I walked in the door of Main Justice this morning, it really did feel like I was coming home,” Garland tells the audience, standing six-feet apart as he spoke.
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The Justice Departed noted what it cast as a paradox in Trump’s argument: that if the documents seized were personal and not government records, there is no basis to withhold them or assert executive privilege. Via
@ByronTau
, remember him?
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Just in: After the White House ousted Atlanta's U.S. attorney because of Trump’s frustration that he wasn’t looking into election fraud, Trump personally called the prosecutor he wanted to replace him and said he was putting him in the job. w/
@aviswanatha
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Ratcliffe said the spoofed emails from Iran were intended to damage Trump. But two officials familiar with the matter said the operation—which targeted Democratic voters—appeared chiefly focused on undermining public confidence in the election.
@dnvolz
Iran is responsible for a wave of fake emails intended to intimidate voters and incite social unrest, the top U.S. intelligence official said
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NOW: An appeals court granted the Justice Department’s request to retain control of the classified materials seized at Mar-a-Lago & continue its criminal investigation into the handling of the documents, a big win for the government. W
@aviswanatha
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DOJ officials spent days considering their legal options, including whether the president could delay the census, as he suggested. But they recognized that wasn’t realistic given the high court’s decision, the printing deadline and other unresolved legal issues tied to the case.
The Trump administration has dropped plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form
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The Justice Department is weighing possible charges against Sen. Bob Menendez after a yearslong public-corruption probe. Prosecutors are expected to meet with his lawyers in the coming weeks ahead of a final decision.
@coryramey
@aviswanatha
SCOOP
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NEW: DOJ considered having
@FBI
agents monitor a search for classified documents at Biden’s homes but decided against it, both to avoid complicating later stages of the probe & because his attorneys were cooperating. W/
@aviswanatha
@cryanbarber
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NOW: Igor Danchenko, a consultant whose information comprised the bulk of the 2016 “Steele dossier,” was acquitted of lying to the FBI, in another striking loss for special counsel John Durham.
@aviswanatha
chronicled the case as it melted down.
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NEW:The U.S. government has approved new growers of research marijuana for the first time in more than 50 years, widening the capacity to study the drug’s medical value.
“We will be growing research cannabis to sell to the whole world for the first time."
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Other Trump associates involved in the Mar-a-Lago documents matter also have been offered some form of immunity, people familiar with the matter said, including one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Christina Bobb, who declined, saying she didn’t need it.
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Scooplet: Rod Rosenstein has submitted his resignation letter to President Trump, ending a tumultuous two years as the Justice Department’s No. 2 official
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Hutchinson’s testimony gave prosecutors “something to chew on,” Trump's AG Bill Barr said, and “provided additional information on the question of foreknowledge that there was likely to be violence. I suspect the department will be digging deeper on that.”
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Attorneys repping Trump or other Republicans have said under oath they have no evidence of fraud.
“We are not alleging fraud in this lawsuit. We are not alleging anyone stealing the election,” Kory Langhofer, a Trump campaign attorney said in a hearing.
@ByronTau
@sara_randazzo
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Wray was involved in weeks of discussions with Garland and other senior DOJ & FBI officials about the decision to execute the search warrant at Trump’s Florida home. Wray came to believe it was a step that had to be taken to recover classified documents.
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This Passover, please consider setting a place at your Seder table for
@evangershkovich
. As you celebrate freedom, join us in demanding freedom for Evan.
#LetEvanGo
#LetHimGo
#LetMyPeopleGo
#IStandWithEvan
#FreeEvan
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SPOTTED: Rod Rosenstein, back at DOJ after a previously scheduled meeting at the White House — and he still has his detail in tow.
#stilltheDAG
cc:
@MichaelCBender
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“We are at an inflection point in our history. It is all too clear that the legacy of past injustices inflicted on African Americans persists powerfully and tragically to this day,” declared all 7 justices of CA’s Supreme Court. Via
@JessBravin
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The move will enable Biden to prevent any of Trump’s political appointees from staying at the helm of cabinet agencies past Jan. 20, as Senate committees have yet to hold hearings on the president-elect’s nominees, which precede a confirmation vote by the full Senate.
SCOOP: President-elect Joe Biden plans to appoint acting heads across the federal government once he takes office, in most cabinet and some sub-cabinet positions, transition officials tell me and
@KThomasDC
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Standing ovations for
@evangershkovich
at
#WHCD
and his family in attendance. Evan has now been wrongfully detained in a Russian prison for a month.
“We all stand with you,” President Biden said. “We’re working every day to secure his release.”
#FreeEvanNow
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The meeting is set to include, among others,
@RandPaul
and
@SenMikeLee
, who are privacy hawks, and William Barr, who opposes sweeping changes to the existing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which he has called crucial to national security.
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Comments by
@JerryMoran
to
@WSJ
suggest that any effort by Trump to fire Wray after the election could run into blowback from his own Republican party. Moran said he would “continue to support Wray’s efforts.” W/
@aviswanatha
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Amid turmoil over Texas’ abortion ban, the Justice Department charges an Ohio man with FACE Act violations for two calls he made to a reproductive health care clinic in April, in which made a death threat and a bomb threat. Garland has suggested more such cases are coming.
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