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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says that only Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was fired from the Justice Department. Stanley Woodward could be leaving the Department of Justice to be replaced by current Civil Rights Division Chief Harmeet Dhillon. The Department of Justice presses for its own search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s phone. The Civil Rights Division is investigat...

Pam Bondi has been fired and Todd Blanche becomes the Acting Attorney General as the President weighs a replacement. Federal District Judge Amit Mehta has allowed a consolidated civil suit against Trump for his role in the January 6th attack on the Capitol to advance. Trump’s Justice Department quietly dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in its shift to immigration cases. The Department of Just...

Hackers linked to Iran have breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal emails. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a Jack Smith progress memo to Congress outlining Trump's motive for illegally retaining classified documents. A top deputy to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged in a closed-door hearing this month that the Justice Department did not have evidence of wrongdoing in its criminal inves...

A federal judge has issued a new rule requiring Jeanine Pirro to notify the court when she fails to get a grand jury to bring charges. Jim Comey has been subpoenaed in the sprawling criminal probe against ex-CIA chief John Brennan in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district. Attorney General Pam Bondi attempts to flout a deposition subpoena from the House Oversight Committee in the Epstein Files investigati...

Justice Department Pardon Attorney and former Weaponization Czar and associate deputy attorney general Ed Martin is under investigation by the Bar Association in the District of Columbia. Former Pardon Attorney, Liz Oyer, joins us to discuss. The Justice Department has proposed a new rule that would allow Attorney General Pam Bondi to suspend bar association investigations into DOJ lawyers. (Voice...

The House Oversight Committee voted 24 - 19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi in their Epstein files investigation. US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro quietly closes an investigation into President Biden for his use of the autopen after failing to establish a case. A longtime Justice Department employee has been arrested and charged in a child pornography case. Deputy Atto...

Senator Mark Kelly wins a preliminary injunction that will stop the Defense Department’s disciplinary process in its tracks. Judge Aileen Cannon decides to hide Jack Smith’s report on the MAL investigation from the public permanently. The list of Department of Justice failures in court continues to grow. Kash Patel has the best work day at the Olympics ever. Virginia Burger joins Andy to break dow...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sets arguments for late June in the bid to release Volume II of Jack Smith’s final report. A Minnesota judge holds a justice department attorney in contempt for failing to comply with a court order. Some leading defense lawyers have created a tool to track Justice Department cases that involve irregular charging practices. The Justice Department acknowledges viola...

Jeanine Pirro gets shut out by a federal grand jury trying to indict six members of Congress for their video asking military members to disregard illegal orders. Judges in the Northern District appointed Donald Kinsella US attorney to replace John Sarcone, and Todd Blanche promptly fired him. Former Special Counsel Deputy in Jack Smith’s office, JP Cooney, is running for Congress in Virginia. A fe...

The Department of Justice is buckling under the weight of immigration cases causing a DOJ lawyer in Minneapolis to ask a judge to hold her in contempt just so she can get some sleep. Former January 6th prosecutors have drafted a memo advising Congress on how to investigate DHS use of force and the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. The Trump Administration plans to ramp up its retribution agai...

The FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County Georgia Election Offices with Director of National Intelligence Tusli Gabbard in tow. Four journalists including Don Lemon were arrested by the Justice Department and charged with conspiracy against rights and threat of force to impede religious freedom The US Attorney’s office in Minneapolis is in crisis over concerns that they were being ask...

The FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis but Trump administration officials quickly shut it down. The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has pivoted to investigating discrimination against white people Judge Engelmayer has denied the letter motion filed by Representatives Khanna and Massie to appoint a Special Master over the Epstein...

The Department of Justice faces mass resignations from the Civil Rights Division and the Minneapolis US Attorney’s office over the handling of the killing of Renee Nicole Good. Judge Engelmayer asks the parties for briefing on whether he has jurisdiction to appoint a special master, and whether Congressmen Khanna and Massie have standing to ask for one. Jack Smith has agreed to testify publicly th...

Minnesota leaders push for the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to be included in the FBI's investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s federal indictment of the alleged pipe bomber may have come too late to be within the federal statute of limitations. As expected, a federal judge has ruled that the Trump-appointed US Attorney in the Northern...

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Lawyers for former CIA Chief John Brennan have written to the Chief Judge in the Southern District of Florida accusing the Justice Department of forum shopping. The Supreme Court has ruled that Trump does not have the authority to deploy the National Guard under title 10 USC section 12406. The Justice Department issues a memo asking assistant US Attorneys to work through the holidays to redact the...

The Department of Justice has announced that it will not be releasing all of the Epstein files as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but will instead release them on a rolling basis. Jack Smith testified for 8 hours behind closed doors in front of the House Judiciary Committee, saying that he amassed powerful evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump violated the law. Co-Deputy Di...

The Department of Justice has failed to indict New York attorney Letitia James for a third time, as Daniel Richman wins a motion blocking his emails from being accessed by the government. Main Justice has filed a motion to block the testimony of whistleblower Erez Reuveni and DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign in the Alien Enemies Act contempt proceedings before DC District Judge Boasberg.  Judge Xinis accuse...

The Department of Justice failed to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges.  The FBI has arrested and charged a suspect for the pipe bombs placed at the DNC and RNC on January 5th, 2021. Jim Jordan has subpoenaed Jack Smith to appear behind closed doors after rejecting the Special Counsel’s request to testify before the House Judiciary Committee publicly. Kash...

The cases against Jim Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed by a judge who found that Interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed. News outlets are reporting that President Trump is weighing removing Kash Patel from his position as director of the FBI, but the administration denies those claims. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the dismissal of Trump's 2022 lawsuit...

Judge Nachmanoff is tying up loose ends in the Jim Comey case by asking for final briefs on handing all the grand jury materials over to defense counsel after Judge Fitzpatrick laid out the particularized grounds that could topple the government’s case. A Department of Defense JAG lawyer was overruled by the Department of Justice over the legality of the lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean. Attor...

The judge reviewing the legality of Lindsay Halligan's appointment in the Comey and James cases said that a chunk of the grand jury transcripts and recordings are missing. The Department of Justice WCADAGPA Ed Martin announced pardons for all the co-conspirators and electors in the 2020 fraudulent elector scheme. The Continuing Resolution to fund the government includes a provision allowing the 8...

The South Carolina Judge weighing the legality of the appointment of Lindsey Halligan has demanded the Lindsey Halligan grand jury tapes after DOJ withheld large portions of them. A different judge in the Comey case berates Halligan for her “indict now, investigate later” approach after the DOJ failed to produce communications seized between Comey and Daniel Richman.  The 11th Circuit orders Judge...

Jim Comey alleges that the single FBI agent’s testimony to the grand jury in his case was tainted by privileged information, and asks the court for the grand jury transcripts.  Comey has also filed a bill of particulars asking the government to clarify the charges, and has filed a motion to dismiss under the Bronston literal truth doctrine. Two assistant US attorneys have been placed on administra...