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Analysis-Beyond yachts and planes: U.S. turns to foreign agent laws to curb Russian influence

In the five months since the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force to seize Russian oligarchs' assets to pressure Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, prosecutors also have targeted something less tangible: Russia's influence.

Reuters

Editorial: If this is Idaho’s response to federal lawsuit over abortion ban, we’re in legal trouble

The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the state of Idaho — the first such lawsuit the federal government has filed against a state in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade — is based on important matters of life and death, and raises legitimate questions about how…

Tribune News Service

Walls closing in on Trump? Not so fast

Mainstream media is way too eager to claim that justice is coming and Trump is toast. That's how he likes it

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US Asks Argentina to Seize Venezuelan Plane Linked to Iran

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked for permission to confiscate an Iranian plane sold to Venezuelan owners and impounded in Argentina on suspicions it was linked to international terrorist groups, the agency said in a statement. The unannounced arrival of the plane in Argentina on June 8…

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U.S. asks Argentina to seize Venezuelan plane linked to Iran

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked for permission to confiscate an Iranian plane sold to Venezuelan owners and impounded in Argentina on suspicions it was linked to international terrorist groups, the agency said in a statement.

Reuters

Biden administration sues to block Idaho abortion ban, says it violates federal law

BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued the state of Idaho in an attempt to block its forthcoming abortion ban.

Tribune News Service

Russian charged with conspiring to recruit US political groups to spread propaganda for Moscow

“The Russian intelligence threat is continuous and unrelenting,” FBI says

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House Passes New Human Trafficking Bill

Here's what's in the $1 billion reauthorization package.

Reason

Trump plasters presidential seal across golf club during Saudi-backed LIV tournament despite complaints

Earlier this month, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to criminally investigate Mr Trump’s Bedminster golf club over its use of the seal

The Independent UK

Commentary: Garland doesn’t lie — the Justice Department is targeting Trump

The report Tuesday from The Washington Post that the Department of Justice’s insurrection investigation is focusing on the conduct of former President Donald Trump was important and reassuring, but it was not particularly surprising.

Los Angeles Times

Jan 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson cooperating with Department of Justice probe, report says

Cassidy Hutchinson was a top adviser to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows

The Independent UK

DOJ: Warren Buffett's mortgage company redlined in Philly

A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett discriminated against potential Black and Latino homebuyers in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware, the Department of Justice said Wednesday, in what they are calling the second-largest redlining settlement in history

The Independent UK

Irish scheme supports thousands of undocumented immigrants

More than 1,000 irregular arrivals have received work permits and are on a pathway to citizenship.

Al Jazeera

Defense chief calls BS on Trump's lie

There was “no order from the president," Chris Miller said in new video released by Jan. 6 committee

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The Independent UK

Trump repeats election lies as he is revealed to be subject of DoJ criminal probe

Donald Trump busied himself repeating lies about the 2020 election on Truth Social, even as it was revealed he was the subject of a crminal investigation by the Department of Justice.

ABC News

Families of Banksia Hill detainees speak out following transfers to Casuarina Prison

Family members of teenage boys relocated to Western Australia's highest security prison fear the move will ensnare them in a cycle of violence, as the national children's commissioner says disadvantaged youth are being blamed for system failures.

The Independent UK

Trump cut call to prosecute Capitol rioters from Jan 7 speech draft, new video shows

Mr Trump appears to have cut language ‘directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are fully prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law’ from remarks he delivered the day after a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Trump should be charged for crimes against the United States

Charging a former president with crimes would be an extraordinary development in American history and carries the risk of forever reshaping our politics as well as the very future of the nation. It should not be undertaken lightly.

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You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries

Where there's demand for books, the internet will supply them.

Reason

Challenge to N.C. Statute That Bans Lies About Candidates

Grimmett, Ralston Lapp Guinn Media Group & Josh Stein for Attorney General Campaign v. Circosta (M.D.N.C.), filed yesterday, seeks to invalidate N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-274(a)(9), which makes it a crime: For any person to publish or cause to be circulated derogatory reports with reference to any candidate in any…

The Texas Tribune

Black and Latino residents’ complaints about illegal trash dumping in Houston lead to federal investigation

The U.S. Justice Department says it has launched a civil rights investigation to determine whether the city’s response to residents’ complaints about illegal dumping was discriminatory.

Reason

Court Allows Sealing of Filings Related to Alleged Federal Prosecutor Misconduct

"There is no question that inaccurate statements were made by the government as part of these proceedings—to both Judge Schroeder and the undersigned"—but it appears that the details of this alleged misconduct remain sealed.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: There is a gap in the evidence we've seen against Trump. We have to rely on the DOJ to fill it

The criticism of the Department of Justice continues to grow: Detractors see the department as too far behind the Jan. 6 committee. They want to know why Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department have yet to come forward with a serious criminal charge against Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

Mich. Democrats seek probe of 11 GOP lawmakers for 'seditious conspiracy' to overturn 2020 election

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House Democrats introduced a resolution Wednesday asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate 11 of their Republican colleagues for attempting "to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election."

Irish Mirror

Department of Justice official warned Ireland's asylum system could not absorb even 1% of the predicted one million refugees fleeing from Ukraine

Concerns were also raised about a possible visa waiver programme for family members of Ukrainian nationals already in Ireland

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