Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg this week pushed forward his fact-finding inquiry into whether Justice Department officials under the Trump administration deliberately defied his emergency order blocking the removal of more than one hundred Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador earlier this year. Boasberg on Monday summoned former DOJ attorney-turned-leaker Erez Reuveni to testify next […]
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer blocked President Donald Trump‘s use of the California National Guard for a third time on Wednesday, despite an appeals court halting Breyer’s two previous orders stopping the deployment of troops to Los Angeles. Breyer granted a request by California officials to declare Trump’s federalization and deployment of National Guard troops […]
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander doesn’t want the support of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is commonly blasted by progressives, in his race against Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Spurning AIPAC, a major pro-Israel donor to Goldman, would once have been considered a bad move in a congressional district with one of the […]
Missouri Democrats secured a victory in their effort to block state Republicans’ attempts to redraw the congressional map before the 2026 elections, gathering enough petition signatures to put the matter to a general vote. People Not Politicians, which is leading the effort to block the new Republican-drawn map that unseats one of the last two Democrat-held […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said President Donald Trump can “lie all that he wants” after Trump gave himself an “A+++++” on his performance regarding the economy. “If this is an A+++ economy, God help us if we ever get to a B or a C,” Sanders said on CNN. “And he talks about how he […]
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon on Wednesday suggested the Democratic Party will fare better in the future if younger politicians, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, are propped up instead of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). “I think that there are other more promising, for the Democrat Party, young politicians,” […]
Changes are coming fast and furious to Washington’s Kennedy Center, the most momentous being the staging of an off-Broadway play featuring testimonials of Israeli survivors of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that killed 1,219. The playwrights of October 7 told Washington Secrets that their interpretation of the horrific event will take place Jan. […]
A federal judge in New York cleared the way for the Justice Department to release long-sealed grand jury materials from its sex-trafficking investigation into the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, marking another major step in the government’s race to comply with a new transparency law that requires all Epstein-related files to be published by Dec. […]
A Pennsylvania Senate oversight committee on Tuesday authorized three subpoenas related to an investigation into how Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) allocated taxpayer funding for his security and travel expenses. Republicans on the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee overruled Democrats on the panel to approve the subpoenas, expressing concern that at least $1 million “in taxpayer money […]
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) introduced articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for threatening the country’s health. Stevens, who is running for Michigan’s open Senate seat in 2026, has targeted Kennedy with criticism for months, accusing him of harming healthcare, health research, and promoting conspiracy theories. More […]
