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ICE pursuit takes bizarre turn as agency’s explanation faces 'jaw-dropping' challengeAn immigration enforcement operation that left a Houston man seriously injured has taken a stunning turn after a family recognized the photograph of the person federal agents claimed they were pursuing. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents were attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza Cervantes on Oct. 10 when Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, fled from a…
Little-known law sets ticking time bomb for Trump officials who send ICE to polls: reportAny Trump official who sends armed federal agents to polling places this November could be walking into a trap that springs years later. Federal law bars "troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held," and the crime carries a five-year statute of limitations, The Bulwark's Adrian Carrasquillo reported Friday. That leaves…
Contempt threat pries loose FBI notes on Trump sex abuse allegation DOJ fought to withholdAttorney General Todd Blanche’s Justice Department turned over to a federal judge FBI notes in which a woman says President Donald Trump sexually abused her as a child after sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced them, under threat of sanctions. The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday that it hand-delivered a binder of the notes to the…
‘Key part’ of MAGA’s crusade to take down Ilhan Omar could blow it all up in court: lawyerThe question of why Republicans want to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her citizenship would matter a great deal to any court that takes up the case, even though it isn’t the legal issue itself, California-based attorney Dilan Esper wrote in a thread posted to X on Friday. Omar, a Somali-American lawmaker who came to the United States as a child…
Dark Trump-Hannity 'Code Red' theory emerges after ouster of beleaguered press secretaryA surprisingly tough interview on Fox News has prompted one media reporter to wonder whether President Donald Trump had a hand in the downfall of his embattled White House press secretary. Media journalist Justin Baragona raised the possibility Friday after Sean Hannity grilled Katie Zacharia over her disastrous first press briefing , which lasted just…
Trump's McDonald's habit comes back to bite him as woman he fat shamed fires backA woman President Donald Trump mocked over her weight as she was removed from a fiery Ohio rally is hitting back with a reminder about his own eating habits. Blake, a 29-year-old Ohio artist, told PunchUp that Trump’s love of McDonald’s gives him little room to criticize her weight. “He even said that we all could lose some weight, or something to that…
'All the details' to impeach Kash Patel quietly slipped into lawsuit by ex-FBI agentsNine FBI agents and analysts fired by FBI Director Kash Patel slipped “all the details” Congress might need to impeach him into their wrongful-firing lawsuit, an analysis argues. Marcy Wheeler, a national security journalist who runs the emptywheel blog, wrote Friday that the complaint “provides all the details Congress might need to substantiate proof…
'Betrayal' claims fly as military targets recruit's wife: 'Stabbing soldiers in the back'The wife of a new Army recruit went to a Texas Navy base to pick up military ID cards for her family – but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting for her. Giovanna Perez, 35, drove her four children from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on Sept. 21 for a scheduled appointment to pick up ID cards…
Trump ‘plainly guilty’ in case his handpicked judge derailed: ex-prosecutorA former federal prosecutor says President Donald Trump would likely have been convicted if not for one person he picked himself. Harry Litman, host of "Talking Feds," said in a Thursday episode that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case was "totally righteous, totally strong" and, "but for Cannon and the happenstance of the election," would have led…
Trump's own words sealed his doom with a judge he appointed: Legal expertFormer federal prosecutor Joyce Vance says President Trump’s own remarks did the most damage to his case in a ruling that gave CNN, MS NOW and Politico their White House access back, according to her Substack, Civil Discourse. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction restoring the three outlets’…