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'It will be a nightmare': Fireworks as Trump ally accuses DOJ of boosting Dems in midterms

Far-right activist Laura Loomer is in an open fight with President Donald Trump’s attorney general over a top Justice Department official. She says his handling of a high-profile veterans case could cost Republicans in the midterms. On Monday, before Trump’s rally in North Carolina, Loomer went after Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward on X. She…

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Raw Story· Oct 21, 10:22 AM'It will be a nightmare': Fireworks as Trump ally accuses DOJ of boosting Dems in midterms

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Trump Has Found a New Part of the Constitution to AbuseIt’s been a big year for the supremacy clause. The important but rarely newsworthy constitutional provision has found itself at the center of multiple major legal battles. In recent months, the Trump administration has leaned heavily on the clause to make extraordinary—and often dubious—claims about its own powers. The clause declares that the…

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Texas Comptroller Don Huffines issues series of “executive orders,” raising questions about his office’s authorityThe authority to issue executive orders traditionally belongs to the chief executive, like the governor or a county judge.

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We’re All High School Debaters NowI went to judge a national debate tournament and came away less worried about the teenagers than the politicians and pundits who argue just like them. The post We’re All High School Debaters Now appeared first on Washington Monthly .

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Elon Musk’s $3.5 trillion Tesla-SpaceX merger talks put his accountability to the testThe SpaceX IPO pushed Musk past $1 trillion on paper. Pension funds, a federal judge, and workplace-safety data show how little stands between him and the companies he runs.

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Mario-Rosales-IJ-2Federal appeals courts rejected qualified immunity for cops and a judge who flouted longstanding constitutional principles.

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Democrats accuse Trump of using prosecution threats to pressure election officialsDemocratic groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, accusing it of using unfounded voter fraud claims to muscle its way into how states run elections. Why it matters: The groups say the administration is issuing a stream of threats to intimidate and bully both voters and election officials. They're asking a judge to declare the administration's…

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Judge orders Meta to pay New Mexico $25B in Cambridge Analytica caseA judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) announced the judge's order Wednesday, calling it "one of the single largest — if not the largest —...

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Bite of Seattle shooting suspect released on electronic home monitoring - Wed, 21 Oct 2026 PSTA King County Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered that a 15-year-old suspect in the fatal Bite of Seattle shooting be released from juvenile detention. The boy is accused of firing a handgun indiscriminately into a crowd of people attending the food festival at Seattle Center on July 26. Seattle police arrested him at the scene, and he was charged…

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Democrats sue Trump administration over 'threats and intimidation' ahead of electionDemocratic leaders and election groups filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday, seeking to block federal officials from pressuring states to remove voters from their rolls ahead of the November midterm elections. The 44-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the…

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Judge shreds Trump's 'voluminous and unreliable' plot to curb voting in CaliforniaA federal judge in San Francisco has blocked parts of a Department of Homeland Security campaign to question suspected noncitizen voters, finding it likely violates the Voting Rights Act by intimidating people who help others vote. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday to the California Nurses Association…

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