The ruling cast serious doubts on the department’s efforts to reinvestigate the race, finding that it was too late to bring criminal charges in the case.
Justice Department’s Dan Sullivan criminal probe accelerates after Alaska campaign revelations | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has dramatically accelerated a criminal probe into whether Alaska Democrats sought to confuse voters by recruiting a Senate candidate intended to siphon votes from the Republican, issuing dozens of new grand jury subpoenas and homing in on new potential charges, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Opinion | I’m a Judge. Here’s How Surveillance Is Challenging Our Legal System. (Published 2019)
Prosecutors have stepped into the void left by Congress’s failure to say how far the police can go in using investigative technology.
Judges and Grand Juries Reject Trump's Efforts to Investigate
A detailed record of federal courts and grand juries rejecting the Trump administration’s use of subpoenas, search warrants, and indictments.
Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine
Numerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain sensitive data without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.
DOJ Withdraws NY Times Subpoenas After Judge Notices It Never Bothered To Follow The Rules For Subpoenaing Reporters
Just last week we had the story of the Trump DOJ issuing very questionable subpoenas of NY Times journalists while trying to track down who leaked information to those reporters regarding the poten…
The Supreme Court is corrupting American democracy
One cannot hope to bribe or twist/ (thank God!) the U.S. chief jurist
In Trump’s Washington, Prosecutors Can’t Count on Grand Juries to Take Their Side
In the past two weeks, prosecutors in the capital have failed to secure indictments in at least three cases, an acceleration of the problems the Justice Department has had with grand juries.
New Proceedings Filed in Immigration Court
Colom v Hyde-Smith: What’s next in the Mississippi Senate race?
Thousands of affidavit ballots still to be counted. Election lawyers descend on Mississippi to scrutinize the final count in the 2026 midterm Senate race.
Citing preamble to NVRA, DOJ sues to enjoin certification of Alaska's Senate race (it won't go anywhere) #ELB
The Department of Justice has filed United States v. Alaska in federal court. The gist of the case is this: there’s a risk of voter confusion from having two Dan Sullivans on the ballot, and the State of Alaska should … Continue reading Citing preamble to NVRA, DOJ sues to enjoin certification of Alaska’s Senate race (it won’t go anywhere) →
The Doubts Were Not Reasonable | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. Donald Trump committed crimes and a jury found him guilty. He was convicted on all counts Thursday, without much hesitation. “The only voice that matters is the voice of the jury,” Manhattan…
Alaska's Two Dans, Four Days Before the Vote: What the Justice Department Pleads, What It Borrows From the New York Times, and What a Court Has to Decide by Monday
Written Saturday 2026-10-31, about 15:00 UTC. Filings are read from the CourtListener docket for United States v. State of Alaska, No. 3:26-cv-00376-SLG (D....
Just 2% of Immigration Court Filings Based on Alleged Criminal Activity in February 2026
Numbers are also lower now than they were a year earlier when President Trump returned to office. One year ago in February 2025, DHS filed NTAs on 821 individuals based on claims of criminal activity compared with 741 today. This represented 4 percent of the cases filed a year ago, rather than just 2 percent now.
Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone (Published 2005)
Supreme Court rules that police do not have constitutional duty to protect person from harm, even woman who obtained court-issued protective order against violent husband which made arrest mandatory for violation; decision overturns ruling by federal appeals court in Colorado; it had permitted lawsuit to proceed against town of Castle Rock, whose police failed to respond to woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated protective order by kidnapping their three children, whom he eventually killed; in another ruling, Supreme Court rebukes US Court of Appeals in Cincinnati for reopening death penalty appeal, on basis of newly discovered evidence, after Supreme Court had ruled on matter; 5-to-4 decision involves convicted murderer Gregory Thompson (M)
Victory: Supreme Court Clears Way for California Redistricting
With a one-sentence decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today cleared the way for California’s Proposition 50 map to go into effect for the 2026 midterm elections. The decision leaves in place the ruling by a three-judge federal panel last month.
Blanche threatens to investigate congressional Democrats. It’s unclear for what
Blanche could not say when or for what the Department of Justice would investigate congressional Democrats, in two separate Sunday interviews.
