Prosecutors
D.C. woman acquitted of assaulting FBI agent after 3 grand juries declined to indict
In August, President Donald Trump took over the police force in Washington, D.C., and flooded the city with officers from various federal agencies. As part of this show of force, federal agents arrested hundreds of people,…
Trump adds 3 more names he wants the Justice Department to prosecute
"Deranged Jack Smith, in my opinion, is a criminal," President Donald Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The sentiment was not new: Everyone knows that Trump has a grudge against…
Trump indicts Letitia James in a case similar to her suit against him
This week, federal prosecutors brought charges against another one of President Donald Trump's political enemies. After interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan secured a grand jury…
What’s really at stake in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case?
Thanks to a Supreme Court that has blessed anything short of physical torture, prosecutors have more coercive tools than ever before, including the ability to threaten to indict a defendant's family members or friends.…
Trump conflates justice with revenge by demanding charges against his enemies
FBI Director Kash Patel portrays James Comey's indictment as a response to "the Russiagate hoax." Yet on their face, the charges against Comey have nothing to do with the investigation that earned the former…
Assata Shakur stood with the oppressors
There are quite a few dramatic, almost folkloric, stories about Assata Shakur, the American militant and self-avowed anti-government revolutionary who escaped from prison in 1979, not long after she was convicted of murdering…
In Trump’s tussle with James Comey, you should hope everybody loses
Two things can be simultaneously true. One is that President Donald Trump and his aides are petty, vindictive people who, like other members of the political class, misuse power to punish opponents. The other is that some of…
Trump’s public comments could further complicate the shaky James Comey case
Lindsey Halligan seemed out of her depth on Thursday evening, when she presented a two-count indictment of former FBI Director James Comey to a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala was…
Kash Patel ties Comey indictment to the legally unrelated ‘Russiagate hoax’
In his 2023 book Government Gangsters, Kash Patel, now the director of the FBI, described a "deep state" conspiracy against Donald Trump that he equated with a conspiracy to subvert democracy and the Constitution.…
James Comey indicted in a case prosecutors don’t seem excited about
This week, a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump—even though federal prosecutors don't seem entirely confident in the case. According to the brief…
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