The Trump administration is quietly building a legal case against Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez, including readying a draft criminal indictment, one of several tools it is using to strengthen its leverage with Caracas.
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“This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history,” said an unidentified spokeswoman.
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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOJ has asked a federal appeals court to un-drop its challenge to lower-court rulings that President Trump illegally targeted law firms he disfavored.
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Based on communications Wendt had with others through Facebook, he wanted to quit his job as Chief of Police, but he did not want to give up the ability to write law letters for his stores. He discussed stockpiling machine guns at his stores before he retired. The sale of machine guns could be quite lucrative. Wendt purchased Heckler & Koch MP7A2 machine guns for $2,080 each and sold two of them for $25,000 each. Wendt used the Adair Police Department as a third location for BW Outfitters. The advantage the police department had over his other two locations was that Wendt could purchase more than one of the same make and model machine gun. While the machine guns were registered to the police department, Wendt purchased them with his own funds. In his purchase law letters, he claimed that the machine guns were being purchased for official use and not for resale. Yet, within six months of receiving three MP7A2s in 2021, he resold two of them. Then Wendt turned around eight months later and wrote a purchase law letter for more MP7A2s to restock his inventory. In total, Wendt made a profit of $79,660 from the sale of machine guns registered to the Adair Police Department.
8th Cir., 2-1, holds that the federal prohibition on possession of a machine gun is unconstitutionally vague as to a police chief who took a department-owned machine gun to a community shoot.
(But upholds false statement to and fraud on ATF counts.)
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JUST IN: US judge says Trump effort to end New York City congestion pricing unlawful reut.rs/3Ngzbt3
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SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
The Trump administration plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders sanctioning several law firms, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Only one in four Americans approves of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday, while about half believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday.
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Sup. Ct. R. 44 permits a petition for rehearing within 25 days of the decisions.
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The Trump administration on Friday released the names of 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree, and only 16 of them have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.”
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JUST IN: A federal judge has found that immigration agents have no probable cause to detain two people arrested in an infamous raid on a building in Chicago's the South Shore neighborhood in September.
Judge Cummings is still reading his ruling
background:
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DEVELOPING: Superseding indictment returned in Don Lemon Minnesota church protest case. Local press says more defendants added and arrested. Awaiting more details. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27... Report: www.kare11.com/article/news...
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Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.
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Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.
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'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ICE is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push, so it's hiring officers before completing standard checks.
The agency fired five people after belatedly finding that they had outstanding warrants for their arrest.
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A subpoena would not require judicial approval or a showing of probable cause.
26.02.2026 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Patel testified to a grand jury during the investigation after being granted immunity.
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
The FBI has fired at least 7 FBI agents and support staff as a result of their role in Trump's classified documents.
The people fired are said to have participated in some way in pulling phone records of Patel and Susie Wiles during that investigation.
Jack Smith's lawyers told the House in December that the Justice Department's view is that it cannot discuss nonpublic information from the classified-documents case because Judge Cannon has ordered it to keep that information secret.
25.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 36 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0They don't need to establish probable cause for a subpoena. It's a very low bar, and these types of records are obtained quite frequently.
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Patel told Reuters that authorities subpoenaed "toll records" - logs of calls, not their content - for both he and Wiles when they were private citizens. It is a very common investigative technique and both had been questioned by the government as part of the classified-documents investigation.
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NEW: The FBI secretly obtained records of phone calls by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles while the government was investigating President Trump's cache of secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago club, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday.
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News: The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share the classified underlying intelligence—a conversation two foreigners had about Jared Kushner—that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing claims of executive privilege. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Roberts asserts that he was injured because he was denied the ability to enter into the application-stage contract with Progressive and Circular Board. But Progressive and Circular Board did not cause Roberts’s injuries. Roberts caused them. Recall that Roberts closed the grant application without submitting it. Had Roberts submitted his application, he would have formed the application-stage contract with Progressive and Circular Board. And he could have competed for the second contract. At that point, he may have been subjected to racial No. 24-3454 Roberts et al. v. Progressive Preferred Ins Co et al. Page 8 discrimination related to his pursuit of a second contract (the grant-stage contract), but that is not the injury at issue here. Because Roberts chose not to take that first step (finishing and submitting the application), he cannot connect his application-stage injury to Progressive and Circular Board’s allegedly discriminatory actions.
6th Cir., 2-1, holds that white-owned business that started to fill out grant application, but failed to finish after learning only black-owned businesses were eligible does not have standing to bring a racial discrimination claim bc he never filed the app.
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JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.
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Here we go. Free, no-reg versions of favorite stories from my four years at the Washington Post. First, three pieces from our Pulitzer-finalist series on how India's ruling party coerced U.S. tech giants into violating their own policies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...
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There were seven (7) opinions in last week's tariffs decision. The two justices who didn't write hammed it up in oral argument today...
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