Justice Department makes a splash with politically sensitive cases and actions during midterm blitz
Prosecutors are using unusual tactics to preserve charges and press election-related cases, even as the department denies political motives.
- On Monday, the Justice Department unsealed new criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey, marking the third case brought against him since President Donald Trump returned to office.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche has ignored the department's long-standing policy of delaying nonessential activities within 60 days of an election, asserting the Justice Department follows the facts rather than political timetables.
- Prosecutors have escalated investigations into Rep. Ilhan Omar and sought to block election certification in Alaska, filing placeholder cases against ex-FBI officials while bypassing grand juries in the nation's capital.
- Former official David Laufman denounced the department's actions as a "brazen disregard for time-honored norms," while Comey called the charges an "appalling abuse of the Department of Justice" in a video statement.
- With midterm elections arriving next week, the Justice Department's legal blitz targets perceived adversaries, with Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui recently describing the department's maneuvers as a "sideshow on top of a sideshow.
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The Daily Item
Trump's Justice Department pushes a spate of politically sensitive cases as midterm elections near
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has been scrambling before the midterm election with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that some critics say reeks of politics. This month alone, the Justice Department escalated an investigation into Democratic U.S. Rep.…
A crucial and contested mid-term election will be held next week, and President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has been accelerating an avalanche of actions and cases that have hoarded headlines and that, according to defense lawyers, Democrats and other critics, are not a coincidence and have a strong political background, both for the moment they occur and for the people they are targeting.
The Toronto Star
Justice Department makes a splash with politically sensitive cases and actions during midterm blitz
WASHINGTON (AP) — A crucial and contentious midterm election arrives next week, and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has been scrambling with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that defense lawyers, Democrats and other critics say is no coincidence…
Justice Department steps up moves as midterms near
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Todd Blanche has delivered the same message time and again, at turns soothing and combative: The Justice Department is doing nothing out of the ordinary, and nothing remotely improper, in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
A few days after the legislative elections, the Department of Justice pushes forward trials against Trump critics and faces questioning for possible political motivations.
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