Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
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The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Ethics #Crypto #Law #Transparency #Stocks #Trump #USPolitics

Remember yesterday when I told y’all some of the redactions were easy to remove? The Guardian has words.

People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.

Y’all, they used Acrobat. Because the #DOJ fired all the #infosec people who normally sanitize data, and told 1200 agents not trained in infosec to hide anything that might embarrass the #GuardiansofPedophiles, and this is the result.

Have fun y’all, let’s see who we can embarrass.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media

#Biden stopped the #executions of 37 men. Trump's #DOJ wants to punish them

A year after President Joe Biden spared 37 prisoners on federal #DeathRow from execution by reducing their sentences to life in prison, the #Trump admin is making good on its promise to treat them as harshly as possible anyway.

#law #DeathPenalty #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5269702/death-row-executions-transfer-commuted

#Biden stopped the #executions of 37 men. Trump's #DOJ wants to punish them

A year after President Joe Biden spared 37 prisoners on federal #DeathRow from execution by reducing their sentences to life in prison, the #Trump admin is making good on its promise to treat them as harshly as possible anyway.

#law #DeathPenalty #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5269702/death-row-executions-transfer-commuted

Remember yesterday when I told y’all some of the redactions were easy to remove? The Guardian has words.

People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction can be undone with Photoshop techniques, or by simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.

Y’all, they used Acrobat. Because the #DOJ fired all the #infosec people who normally sanitize data, and told 1200 agents not trained in infosec to hide anything that might embarrass the #GuardiansofPedophiles, and this is the result.

Have fun y’all, let’s see who we can embarrass.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media

Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
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The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Ethics #Crypto #Law #Transparency #Stocks #Trump #USPolitics

Court orders #DOJ to return data seized from Comey friend

US Dist Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled the material obtained from #law professor Daniel Richman was handled with “callous disregard” for his rights.

A federal judge ordered the DOJ Friday to return data it seized in 2017 from a longtime friend of fmr FBI Dir #JamesComey, concluding that prosecutors had violated Richman’s constitutional rights & misused his material in their quest to indict Comey.

#Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/court-orders-doj-to-return-data-seized-from-comey-friend-00689956

How many times are they gonna try this?

A grand jury declined for a 2nd time to re-indict #NYAG #LetitiaJames Thursday, refusing to resurrect a mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by #Trump.

It’s another major blow to the #DOJ after the dismissal of earlier charges against James and another longtime Trump foe, former FBI Director #JamesComey, in a stunning rebuke of the Trump admin’s efforts to prosecute Trump’s perceived enemies .

#law
https://apnews.com/article/letitia-james-grand-jury-6743e4d673d8b039059a958e507aea94?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-11-Breaking+News

Court orders #DOJ to return data seized from Comey friend

US Dist Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled the material obtained from #law professor Daniel Richman was handled with “callous disregard” for his rights.

A federal judge ordered the DOJ Friday to return data it seized in 2017 from a longtime friend of fmr FBI Dir #JamesComey, concluding that prosecutors had violated Richman’s constitutional rights & misused his material in their quest to indict Comey.

#Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/court-orders-doj-to-return-data-seized-from-comey-friend-00689956

Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
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“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ucla-antisemitism-investigation-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest

How many times are they gonna try this?

A grand jury declined for a 2nd time to re-indict #NYAG #LetitiaJames Thursday, refusing to resurrect a mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by #Trump.

It’s another major blow to the #DOJ after the dismissal of earlier charges against James and another longtime Trump foe, former FBI Director #JamesComey, in a stunning rebuke of the Trump admin’s efforts to prosecute Trump’s perceived enemies .

#law
https://apnews.com/article/letitia-james-grand-jury-6743e4d673d8b039059a958e507aea94?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-11-Breaking+News

@workingclasshistory Wondering whether charges of #treason collapsed before going to court - or did juries refuse to convict??? #DoJ #civicjustice

The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-realpage-settlement-rental-price-fixing-case?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Rent #Law #Antitrust #Technology #Tech #Software

🚨"3 Salvadoran men sent to #CECOT by the Trump admin are still being held incommunicado there.

They haven't been able to talk to their families or attorneys since arriving in Mar."
-K Bush-Joseph

Inter-Am Comm on #HumanRights:🚨called on the govt of SLVr to protect three Salvadoran men deported by the US in a decision pub Tues that said they'd been held w/o the ability to communicate with their ATTYs or relatives since arriving.

#Deportations #DHS #DOJ #Torture #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-bukele-us-deportees-gangs-8783a2e31a558c070aa0f423bf2ec5eb

From the moment #JamesComey was charged with lying to & obstructing Congress, his lawyers have asserted that the prosecution was little more than an act of vindictive #retribution fueled by #Trump’s longstanding animus against him.

Wed morning, the lawyers are set to make that argument in court & to persuade a federal judge that the case should be dismissed because the #DOJ effectively allowed itself to be taken captive by Trump’s desire to seek political #revenge.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/politics/comey-vindictive-prosecution-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share