North Charleston, South Carolina — The grieving father of a North Carolina woman who was shot and killed during a break-in pressed Attorney General Todd Blanche and GOP Sen. Darline Graham to pass a bill that would create a national database of repeat violent offenders on Thursday, after the bill failed to gain momentum in…
Washington — President Trump ordered the Justice Department not to appeal a court ruling that loosened restrictions on firearms known as “gangster weapons,” sources familiar with the matter told CBS News, a move that will let some Americans possess or sell short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and silencers with less government oversight. For more than 90…
Senior Democratic lawmakers vowed Monday to investigate the new market that has sprung up around President Trump’s pardons, citing CBS News video of lobbyists offering to “put pressure on the president” in exchange for a hefty fee from a convicted felon. “They’ve basically converted the president’s pardon power into a for-profit industry,” said Rep. Jamie…
First, U.S. Air Force officer shot down in Iran says it’s a “modern-day miracle” he survived. Then, brokers are offering felons a path to Trump pardons — at a steep price with no guarantees. And, McVay, Stafford on Rams culture. Source link
It was mid-August at the bar inside the plush Ritz-Carlton hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside Washington, and Jack Burkman and his business partner Jacob Wohl were making their latest sales pitch. They were seated at a table with Ammon Covino, a convicted felon, and his wife, Crystal. “With this particular White House,…
Washington — Ed Martin, the pro-Trump lawyer who has been at the center of several controversies during his time at the Justice Department, is departing the Trump administration, the president announced in a post on Truth Social Friday afternoon. Martin previously served as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during a tenure that…
