Washington — The Trump administration pressured its career civil rights attorneys to investigate allegations of antisemitism at the university campuses of Harvard, Columbia and Brown even though there was no factual or legal basis to do so, according to a former Justice Department attorney. Haley Van Erem, a longtime lawyer at the Justice Department’s Civil…
Washington — The Justice Department is planning to deploy a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places throughout the U.S. for the midterm elections, the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division said this week. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, made the announcement in remarks to Bloomberg on Monday….
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon asked a federal judge in Minnesota to dismiss criminal civil rights charges against him on Friday, saying he is being unlawfully targeted for vindictive prosecution. His attorneys wrote that President Trump’s animosity toward Lemon “is well documented, stretching back over a decade.” They argued that the Justice Department charged Lemon…
Senate and House Democrats launched a congressional inquiry on Wednesday into a new controversial Justice Department legal opinion that would make it easier for states to keep people with mental illness institutionalized, rather than paying for them to receive community-based care. In a letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the lawmakers asked the…
On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia CBS News contributors Chris Krebs and David Becker New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat Border czar Tom Homan Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Click here to browse full transcripts from 2026 of “Face…
The following is the transcript of an interview with CBS News contributors Chris Krebs and David Becker that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on July 19, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: And for more on election security, we’re joined now by CBS News contributors David Becker and Chris Krebs. Good to have you both…
