Federal prosecutors asked a D.C. court on Monday to hand down a sentence of up to nine years in prison to the self-described political “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, who was convicted last year of lying to Congress, obstructing a congressional investigation and witness tampering…
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The U.S. Department of Justice told a D.C. federal court Wednesday that probation could be an “appropriate” sentence for Michael Flynn, just a few weeks after the agency appeared to urge the court to hand the former White House adviser a harsher punishment…
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A group of federal watchdogs has criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for determining that a whistleblower’s report about allegedly inappropriate White House interaction with Ukraine wasn’t an “urgent concern,” thereby blocking the complaint from being sent to Congress…
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The federal government urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to undo a California federal judge’s decision to block the Trump administration’s policy of rejecting asylum claims at the Southwest border from migrants who cross through a country besides their own…
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The Republican majority in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Daniel Jorjani as the U.S. Department of the Interior’s top lawyer, despite Democrats’ claims that Jorjani lied to legislators about his involvement in a controversial public records proposal at the agency…
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