
The Hill - 4 hours 8 min ago
Two House Democrats are already floating the impeachment of Attorney General Todd Blanche after the GOP's sweeping midterm election defeats, suggesting Democrats could win enough Republican support in the Senate to remove him from office. Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) voiced their support for impeaching Blanche on Thursday, just two days after...

ABC News - 4 hours 25 min ago
Four men named in a former Cornell University student's lawsuit are joining a co-defendant's effort to block New York's attorney general from leading a reopened criminal investigation into the woman's gang rape allegations...

Mother Jones - 5 hours 53 min ago
Misery loves company, and for the past 19 months, American colleges have had plenty of both, largely thanks to Harmeet K. Dhillon, the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, who has spent her entire tenure treating campuses like crime scenes. Dhillon undid years of diversity, equity, and inclusion work at more than 300 […]...

Slate - 8 hours 11 min ago
I asked Nathan Johnson about his Dragon Ball Z years and what it will take to clean up after Ken Paxton.

Esquire - 8 hours 25 min ago
Nathan Johnson has promised to investigate SpaceX, and I can't wait to see what he finds.

Newser - 10 hours 10 min ago
Harmeet Dhillon is out as the Justice Department's civil rights chief, becoming the first senior official to exit the administration after the midterms. Attorney General Todd Blanche praised her "conviction" in a post on X and thanked her for her service, but Dhillon left behind a division thinned by departures...

The Hill - 10 hours 31 min ago
A New York appeals panel questioned on Thursday whether presidential immunity or federal law bars President Trump's criminal conviction stemming from a hush money payment made during his 2016 campaign to cover up an alleged affair. Trump's personal lawyers said Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg's (D) legal theory of the case was preempted by campaign...

UPI - 10 hours 41 min ago
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights division announced her resignation on Thursday.

The Hill - 10 hours 51 min ago
GOP strategist Karl Rove said he believes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who lost his Senate bid to Democrat James Talarico Tuesday, sunk other Republican candidates in the Lone Star State. "Well, Paxton drew down the entire Republican ticket. He's at the top of the ticket as a Senate candidate, and for the first...

Los Angeles Times - 11 hours 29 min ago
Dhillon has been a powerful and divisive figure inside the Justice Department since her confirmation last year as assistant attorney general.

Attack of the Fanboy - 11 hours 46 min ago
Nathan Johnson won the race for Texas attorney general this week, defeating Republican Mayes Middleton. While his new role involves legal...

Forbes - 12 hours 56 sec ago
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced her resignation in a post on X on Thursday.

ABC News - 12 hours 14 min ago
Longtime Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from her role leading the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced.

The Hill - 12 hours 27 min ago
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, resigned Thursday. Dhillon is one of the first major Trump appointees to resign from the department, and the first major figure to exit the administration after the Republican midterm battering. "Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon,...

The Guardian - 12 hours 32 min ago
Dhillon is first high-level justice department official to leave after historic Republican defeat in 2026 midterms US midterms 2026 live latest updates Harmeet Dhillon, a Donald Trump ally who led the justice department's civil rights division, is leaving her position. "Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division with conviction the past 18 months. She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the...

Fox News - 14 hours 25 min ago
Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for civil rights, sources told Fox News.

Fox News - 14 hours 25 min ago
Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for civil rights, sources told Fox News.

The Guardian - 17 hours 1 min ago
Attorney general challenging Vickrum Digwa's unduly lenient' sentence, which lawyer for Digwa says is excessive' Vickrum Digwa, the killer of Henry Nowak, should have received a longer sentence because of his false accusations of racism against his victim and his abuse of a religious right to carry a knife, the court of appeal has been told. Digwa, 23, was jailed in June for life with a minimum term of 21 years for murdering Nowak, 18, in an attack in Southampton in December last year...

Mother Jones - 17 hours 58 min ago
Democrats in Florida may have been nursing their FOMO hangovers Wednesday morning as they assessed remarkable Republican losses in other ruby-red statewide races for governor, attorney general, and US Senate. It seemed like the blue wave largely missed the Sunshine State, as voters in neighboring red states elected a Democrat to the US Senate in […]...