Democrats are taking advantage of the war breaking out between Republicans over the files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, putting themselves on the same side as President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base, as they call for the files’ release.  The GOP is fracturing over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, causing […]

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s first judicial nominee of his second term, a notably slower pace than at the same point in his first term or former President Joe Biden’s. The Senate voted 46-42 to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The vote was along party lines. Hermandorfer leads […]

The Justice Department appealed a district court ruling Monday that restricts federal immigration authorities’ ability to make arrests and stops targeting suspected illegal immigrants, accusing the lower court of violating the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on universal injunctions. In an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, DOJ lawyers accused Judge […]

The Justice Department on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Ghislaine Maxwell’s high-profile appeal, arguing that the convicted sex trafficker is not shielded by a decades-old plea deal between federal prosecutors in Florida and Jeffrey Epstein. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief opposing Maxwell’s petition, which claims the government violated a nonprosecution agreement that promised not to charge Epstein’s […]