The Justice Department has dropped its appeals from four court rulings that challenged President Trump’s executive orders aimed at sanctioning four major law firms, which were in retaliation for their First Amendment-protected work on lawsuits that have been actively disfavored by the president.
A D.C. grand jury’s decision not to indict six Democratic lawmakers accused of advising military and intelligence officials to refuse illegal orders is part of a growing trend of grand jury resistance to Trump administration prosecutions, which the Cato Institute attributes to the Justice Department’s “horrific abuses of power”.
A federal judge questioned the Trump administration’s effort to block a California law banning law enforcement officers from wearing masks while on duty, suggesting that the law is necessary to protect public safety and prevent confusion.
Former President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, but newly inaugurated President Trump issued an executive order encouraging state and local prosecutors to pursue new charges against those same prisoners, reopening the possibility of capital punishment in state courts.
Two law professors have proposed a “prosecutor jury” system to evaluate indictments against politicians, in order to ensure that the Justice Department is not influenced by partisan politics.
A ProPublica review of federal prosecutions and local arrests, internal protest summaries, and video footage from over 700 clips found no evidence of a coordinated assault on the Portland ICE facility, and that federal officers had used excessive force on protesters in many instances.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has been accused of sharing sensitive government information with unauthorized individuals, facing 18 counts of transmission and retention of national defense information.
Trump’s threat to democracy is not that he will become a king, but that he has become a kleptocrat, exploiting national resources and stealing from the public treasury to enrich himself, his family, and his allies.
Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) has condemned President Trump’s efforts to federalize control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., calling it an authoritarian escalation that threatens public safety and the rule of law.
The Trump administration has allegedly defied court orders in a third of the lawsuits filed against it over immigration and federal funding disputes, raising concerns about the administration’s respect for the judiciary’s authority.
The Justice Department has decided to dismiss lawsuits and withdraw from accountability agreements with several police departments, sparking concern from reform advocates who fear the move could reverse progress in curbing excessive use of force.
A panel of federal judges has ruled that President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on imports from around the world was unlawful, leading to the permanent injunction of the tariffs and the winding down of tariff enforcement.
The Justice Department under the Trump administration has withdrawn from key police reform agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville, abandoning efforts to increase federal oversight of local law enforcement and closing investigations into several other police departments.
American authoritarianism is a decades-old phenomenon, fueled by the expansion of executive power, economic inequality, and the political exploitation of national crises, and cannot be solely blamed on Donald Trump, but rather requires a dismantling of the systems that made him possible.
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