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The record of President Donald Trump’s justice department is starting to look spotty, but CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins reports Trump’s latest DOJ indictment “might be the worst case DOJ has filed in my lifetime,” according to one former DOJ official.To a DOJ that has failed to convince multiple grand juries to go along with what critics call flagrant political prosecution, this means a lot. Last year, Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) under then- AG Pam Bondi promised to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after a Virginia grand jury has declined to return an indictment.

President Donald Trump is trying to win the 2026 midterm elections by stopping voters who he fears will oppose him — and yet his effort just suffered a major setback.“A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking access to Arizona’s detailed voter registration records, dealing another blow to the Trump administration’s national effort to obtain expansive voter data,” Newsweek reported on Tuesday. “The ruling underscores growing judicial resistance to the administration’s election‑oversight strategy, which has repeatedly been blocked over p

President Donald Trump is using the alleged assassination attempt on Saturday to press for construction of a White House ballroom — and a conservative-leaning editor describes the resulting legal brief as if written by a child.Quoting acting attorney general Todd Blanche, Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum wrote on Tuesday that the Trump appointee filed his brief against the National Trust for Historic Preservation. But what he describes sounds like something off Trump social media feed."'The National Trust for Historic Preservat

Investigative journalist Carol D. Leonnig said interim AG director and Trump personal attorney Todd Blanche told his lieutenants that he was brewing up a ‘perp-walk’ for James Comey before doing it, according to anonymous sources inside the Department of Justice.“Well, how convenient for me that you would ask that question,” Leonnig told MS NOW anchors when asked if Blanche’s indictment of the former FBI head Comey was meant to be proof that “he can be thr AG that President Donald Trump wants.“I was on the phone with some source

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are focusing on building a $400 million White House ballroom — even though doing so puts them out of touch with the vast majority of Americans.“This is a unique moment on a number of fronts,” MS NOW analyst Cornell Belcher said on Tuesday, while citing a poll revealing 55 percent of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse. “I'm struck by that Gallup number — it's the worst number we've seen in the last 25 years. Even in the midst of recessions, more people feel negatively about their financial situation now than any other time over the last quarter-century. Because Republicans are following Trump’s lead for a $400 million ballroom, they

President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is historically unpopular, including with much of his own base — yet according to one scholar, the American people are trapped with it.“Despite the limited number of U.S. casualties, President Trump’s massive attack on Iran is one of the most unpopular wars in modern American history,” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s William A. Galston on Tuesday. “From the beginning, more Americans opposed the war than supported it.”Galston went on to quote RealClearPolling, which shows that on average 55 percent

A former FBI agent and the former CIA director took turns dismantling President Donald Trump’s interim AG Todd Blanche for his thin indictment of former CIA head James Comey — allegedly for threatening Trump’s life with seashells.“This should be a mournful day for our country,” said Michael Feinberg a former FBI agent and legal pundit, discussing the Trump justice department’s indictment of Comey. “… [W]e just saw a former assistant U.S. attorney … Todd Blanche diminish himself as a human being, as a public servant, and as an America

Semafor reports that it isn’t just a smattering of Republicans who are trashing President Donald Trump’s proposed bailout of Spirit Airlines. It’s a united front — and they’re furious.“It’s horses-——,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Semafor of Trump’s proposal of forcing taxpayers to invest $500 million in the failing company. “My God: 10 percent stake in Intel, 5 to 10 percent stakes in three or four mining companies, ‘golden share’ of US Steel — and now a half-a-billion-dollar stake in Spirit Airlines.”Trump spent the brunt of his second term bending congressional Republicans to his will, but his iron gripe appears t

Britain’s King Charles III delivered a “carefully targeted rebuff” of President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies during his historic address before Congress, Politico reports, as he lauded NATO and called for “unyielding resolve” to defend Ukraine against Russia.“British monarchs deliver their political messages in code,” Politico noted, adding that “contrary to the president’s

Among President Donald Trump’s most touted achievements is his One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Republicans championed as a means of addressing the cost-of-living crisis by lowering taxes. “The problem is that,” explain two acclaimed conservative economists, “although the government is putting money back into taxpayers’ pockets on the one hand via tax refunds, it is taking more money out via tariff-driven price increases, leaving Americans worse off financially.”Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Phil Gramm and senior fellow at