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Trump civil rights chief’s ‘best and brightest’ boast crumbles hire by hire: legal expertA former prosecutor ripped apart the Trump Justice Department's claim that its new civil rights lawyers rank among the nation's finest. Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, a former Miami-Dade prosecutor, picked through the records of new hires in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division on Wednesday's episode of "The Katie Phang Show," drawing on a New York Times…
Donations, Endorsements, and Iftars: City Officials’ Connections to the McKinney Islamic AssociationNew evidence released by Collin County Precinct Chair Rachel Elliott documents campaign contributions, political endorsements, Islamic event attendance, and other interactions between McKinney elected officials and the McKinney Islamic Association before the City Council’s Aug. 4 vote approving the organization’s proposed mosque site plan. The McKinney…
Report Details How Trump Has Handed Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card to Wall Street and Big TechA report released by government watchdog Public Citizen Wednesday reveals how, under the Trump administration, a donation to or partnership with President Donald Trump "could make your legal matters disappear." When Trump took office in January 2025, he inherited from the Biden administration hundreds of enforcement actions that were supposed to be…
'Mike Rogers Is Watching You': Abdul El-Sayed Hits GOP Opponent Over Support for Mass SurveillanceAs Flock cameras and the data firm Palantir dominate headlines, Michigan’s Democratic US Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is spending the final weeks of the race hammering his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, for his role in expanding the surveillance state. On Tuesday, El-Sayed's campaign unveiled a new campaign ad with the tagline "Mike…