US Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of Salvadoran man deported in error
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. The court’s decision came after the Justice Department asked the justices to throw out an 4th […]
Trump releases JFK assassination documents
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honour his campaign promise to provide more transparency about the shock event in Texas. An initial tranche of electronic copies of papers flooded into the National Archives website in the […]
Trump loosens enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to win or retain business in their countries. Trump’s order pauses enforcement of the nearly half-century-old Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), directs Attorney General […]
US forms taskforce to battle antisemitism, focusing on schools and campuses
Reuters The US Justice Department formed a multi-agency taskforce on Monday to fight antisemitism, with its first priority “rooting out” antisemitic harassment in schools and universities. The Department of Education said it was investigating five universities for allegations of antisemitic harassment. The seal of the US Justice Department is seen on the podium in the […]
US prosecutor Jack Smith defends criminal case against Trump
Washington DC, US Reuters US Special Counsel Jack Smith concluded that Donald Trump engaged in an “unprecedented criminal effort” to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, but was thwarted in bringing the case to trial by the President-elect’s November election victory, according to a report published on Tuesday. The report details Smith’s […]
Judge tosses Trump 2020 election case after prosecutors’ request
Washington DC, US Reuters A US judge on Monday dismissed the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat after prosecutors moved to drop that prosecution and a second case against the President-elect, citing Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president. The order from US District Judge Tanya […]
US judge pauses Trump 2020 election case after election victory
Washington DC, US Reuters A US judge set aside pending deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case after federal prosecutors said they were grappling with the “unprecedented circumstance” of his impending return to the White House. On Friday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington approved a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith, […]
Trump’s impending return to White House brings criminal cases to a halt
Washington DC, US Reuters Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory on Wednesday will essentially end the criminal cases brought against him, at least for the four years he occupies the White House. The first former US president to face criminal charges, Trump for much of this year faced four simultaneous prosecutions, over allegations ranging from […]
US prosecutors show new details of Trump’s bid to overturn election loss
Washington DC, US Reuters US prosecutors said Donald Trump was acting outside the scope of his duties as president when he pressured state officials and then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to overturn his 2020 election defeat, in a court filing made public on Wednesday. The 165-page filing is likely the last opportunity for prosecutors […]
US Justice Department launches first federal review of 1921 Tulsa race massacre
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. The massacre started on 31st May, 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black, in Tulsa’s prosperous Greenwood neighbourhood, which […]