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‘People are going to jail’: Trump admin put on notice if DOJ secretly leaned on MAGA judge

Summary by Raw Story
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) suggested over the weekend that a Trump administration official may have quietly contacted a federal appeals judge to stall a contempt inquiry, and the legal analyst interviewing him declared that if so, “people are going to jail.”In a clip flagged by political video aggregator Acyn Torabi from the Legal AF podcast, Whitehouse laid out a hypothetical involving D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee.“If som…

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Raw Story broke the news in Washington, United States on Monday, October 12, 2026.
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