Washington — In an address to some members of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in October, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward made an unusual pitch. He wanted to entice the lawyers there to leave their roles and accept temporary stints to help out the National Fraud Enforcement Division, created earlier this year, according to multiple…
The top federal prosecutor in South Florida who was overseeing the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation into Obama- and Biden-era intelligence officials abruptly resigned on Friday, marking another high-profile departure from a Justice Department inquiry plagued by internal disputes and doubts about its viability. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the resignation of Jason Reding Quiñones, the…
On a May evening back in 1950, Evelyn Trent had just finished feeding her rabbits when, she claims, she looked up and saw a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object hovering above her farm. Though some dismissed it as a hoax, her account was added to a growing list of unexplained events that sparked America’s first UFO…
The Justice Department has issued grand jury subpoenas to state and local officials in California, escalating a dispute over allegations by the federal government that the state may have as many as 20,000 non-citizens registered to vote ahead of the midterm elections, according to sources with direct knowledge and copies seen by CBS News. News…
Washington — Washington state’s chief election official told the Justice Department on Wednesday that a list of 400 people the federal government alleges are noncitizens who are registered to vote in the state is “not reliable” and contained “many” people who are U.S. citizens. Steve Hobbs, the Washington secretary of state, was responding to a…
Washington — A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed the Justice Department’s effort to force California election officials to set aside thousands of ballots that the Trump administration claims may have been cast by alleged noncitizens. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said in a 2-1 decision that it lacked jurisdiction over…
The Justice Department took steps to charge James Comey with leaking information earlier this month, court records show, in its third attempt to bring criminal charges against the former FBI director and Trump foe. Prosecutors are seeking to charge Comey with two counts of violating the Espionage Act by transmitting national defense information to a…
Washington — The Justice Department sued California on Thursday, alleging that the federal government has identified more than 20,000 noncitizens who are unlawfully registered to vote. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, came after Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sent letters to counties earlier this week,…
Washington — The Justice Department has ordered California to review a list of people whom the federal government believes may have received mail-in ballots for the upcoming November election despite not being U.S. citizens, according to a letter reviewed by CBS News. In the Oct. 13 letter, acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter imposed a…
Washington — The Justice Department took the unusual step on Wednesday of filing a judicial misconduct complaint against all but one of the federal district judges in Minnesota, after most of them spoke with the New York Times about concerns over the government’s handling of cases during its surge in immigration enforcement earlier this year….
