NEW: Federal judge says AG Barr's actions caused him "to seriously question" whether Barr "made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller report in favor of President Trump."
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"All members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter," Chief Justice John Roberts said.
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An apparently divided Supreme Court struggled today to decide whether Louisiana's tough new restriction on abortions violates the Constitution.
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A federal appeals court ruled that the Justice Department can refuse to give crime-fighting money to cities and states that consider themselves sanctuaries and refuse to share information with federal immigration authorities.
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BREAKING: Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months in prison.
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Attorney General William Barr's intervention in Roger Stone's case wasn't the first time senior political appointees reached into a case involving an ex-Trump aide, officials say.
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JUST IN: "I think there were gross abuses" and "inexplicable behavior that is intolerable in the FBI," AG Barr tells following the release of the IG report into the origins of the Russia investigation.
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Several law enforcement tell us the person who fired the shots in Pensacola was a foreign national who was in the US for training
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The Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena for Trump related financial documents from his accounting firm.
The stay will remain in effect until the court disposes of the case.
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Former White House counsel Don McGahn must testify before Congress, federal judge rules. The DOJ has already pledged to appeal the ruling and will seek a stay of the order
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RBG is back in court this morning after missing a day of arguments because of a stomach bug, according to court officials
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While Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh appeared likely to say DACA was properly shut down, Chief Justice John Roberts did not seem to be as strongly convinced.
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Today, a bare majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely to let the Trump administration follow through on its plan to shut down DACA.
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What is impeachment and how does it work? 10 facts to know
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North Carolina cannot use the existing maps for its congressional districts in next year's elections
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Trump's lawyers argue he can't be charged while in office — even if he shoots someone
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Firearms belonging to the suspected leader of a neo-Nazi group who was thought to be preparing for a "race war" have been seized under a "red flag" law in Washington state.
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The Supreme Court appeared to be closely divided after hearing two hours of courtroom argument Tuesday on one of the most important issues of the term: whether existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
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Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not employers can legally fire workers for being LGBTQ
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BREAKING: Supreme Court to take up Louisiana law that would limit access of abortion doctors
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Lt. Christopher Hasson is expected to enter a guilty plea today at noon. The Coast Guard officer and self-described white nationalist was arrested in February for stockpiling guns and threatening to kill political and media figures
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NEW: President Trump repeatedly asked the Australian prime minister for help with the DOJ effort to investigate the origins of the Mueller investigation
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The FBI arrested a US soldier who allegedly talked about bombing a major American news network and suggested an attack on 2020 candidate Beto O’Rourke.
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It's now effectively legal for women to go topless in six states: Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma
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In practice, this means asylum seekers from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador cannot seek asylum in the U.S. if they didn't first ask for it in Mexico
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The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to enforce restrictions that would require migrants to apply for asylum in another country before seeking it in the U.S.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone more cancer treatment
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Prosecutions for violating immigration laws have flooded the nation's federal courts, especially in border states. Nationwide, arrests of noncitizens for immigration offenses rose 440 percent in the two decades from 1998 to 2018 — from 19,556 a year to 105,748
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The decision by a federal appeals court could give a single elector the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election — if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie.
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Florida teen arrested for making ‘joke’ about committing school shooting
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The numbers show that interest in joining the FBI has come roaring back after a decline in applications in the past three years. And among current employees, results from the FBI's annual "climate survey" show upticks in support for the FBI's leadership and mission.
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Despite the lure of higher paying jobs in a strong economy and some harsh criticism from President Donald Trump, the number of people applying to be FBI special agents is up sharply
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“More people have been killed in the US by domestic terrorists than by attacks motivated or committed by foreign ones.” -
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Investigators say the gunman drove roughly eight hours from his home in Allen, Texas to El Paso, where he killed 20 people inside a crowded Walmart.
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A senior administration official says the Justice Department is "strongly considering" federal hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty upon conviction. But the plan would still be to let Texas go first with its’ capital murder case.
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A senior law enforcement official says the gunman in the Dayton, Ohio, shooting was a 24-year-old white male.
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WATCH: joins #MTP to talk about the rise in domestic terrorism after shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
Williams: "There is a real commonality here. The internet has speeded up the ability by which these people inspire each other."
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