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Trump’s Pardon Attorney Mulls Clemency for Fake Electors—Dead or Alive

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The Trump administration’s new chief pardon attorney is considering a plan to grant clemency to dozens of so-called fake electors who aided Donald Trump in his scheme to overturn the 2020 election, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Ed Martin—the failed US attorney nominee whom Trump recently named to a different high-level […]

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Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans

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Donald Trump has made false claims about voter fraud central to his political identity and issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order in March. Now he’s weaponizing the Justice Department to advance his voter suppression agenda. On Tuesday, in its first major voting-related lawsuit, the Trump Justice Department sued the state of North Carolina over its […]

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Report: Police Killings Rose in the Five Years After George Floyd’s Murder

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Five years ago today, George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, in Minneapolis. The harrowing footage of the murder—in which Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes after a nearby store clerk alleged he tried to purchase cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill—sparked […]

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She Denied Mel Gibson a Gun—Then Trump’s DOJ Fired Her

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When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. As a longtime public defender, Oyer was now in a position to advise the president on the backlog of thousands of individuals seeking presidential clemency. But earlier this year, her dream job ended abruptly. In March, […]

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Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

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In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US Attorney for DC, showed up at a community meeting at a police station to tout his efforts to combat crime in the district. Martin politely fielded questions from attendees, even answering one from a man who, citing Martin’s widely condemned description of his office as […]

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RFK Jr. May Have Inspired Acting US Attorney’s Harassment of Medical Journals

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Ed Martin, the acting US Attorney for Washington, DC, had recently been peppering medical journals with “vaguely threatening” letters accusing them of acting as “partisans” in scientific debates. Those missives are just one genre within a barrage of communiques Martin has sent to perceived Trump foes—congressional Democrats, special counsel Jack Smith, a former Mueller prosecutor, […]

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“Designed to Scare People”: Lawyers Warn of Self-Deportation Notices Posted in Immigration Courts

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On April 28, lawyer Paul O’Dwyer opened his email inbox to find some good news. A New York City immigration judge had approved the asylum application for one of his clients. But the immigration court email also contained an attachment O’Dwyer hadn’t seen before: a Justice Department notice encouraging immigrants to self-deport. O’Dwyer was confused. […]

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Ed Martin Isn’t Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer

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Ed Martin, the far-right-activist-turned-acting US attorney for DC, apologized this week for praising an alleged Nazi sympathizer at an event last year. But Martin’s ties to Timothy Hale-Cusanelli—who is known for wearing a Hitler-style mustache, and who allegedly once told a coworker that the Nazis “should have finished the job”—are far more extensive than just that […]

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DOJ Reverses Grant Cancellations For Crime Victim Support

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The Department of Justice has restored two previously canceled grants supporting victims of violent crimes, including domestic violence, following a Mother Jones report on Thursday that highlighted the critical roles the programs played for survivors. The DOJ informed the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) and the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) […]

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Pam Bondi Cuts “Wasteful” Funds to Support Victims of Violent Crime

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On Tuesday night, Claire Ponder Selib, executive director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA), received an email from the Office of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice (DOJ) that left her devastated. The message informed her that a federal grant that supported a pilot program to train victim advocates who staff domestic violence […]

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Why Trump’s Embattled US Attorney in DC Is Talking About Russia

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Ed Martin, the acting US attorney in Washington, who has earned some notoriety through attempts to use his office to attack political opponents of the Trump administration, recently turned his sights on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to help President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. But Martin’s latest effort—a letter alleging misconduct by […]

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Trump’s “Opening Salvo” in His War Against Criminal Justice Reform Starts With This One Nonprofit

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Earlier this month, the Vera Institute of Justice, a national criminal justice reform nonprofit, was notified that all five of its federal grants had been abruptly canceled by the Department of Justice. The lost funding, totaling approximately $5 million, had supported ongoing programs to improve prison conditions and mental health crisis response, as well as […]

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