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The Department of Justice on Tuesday challenged a Florida law that bars Chinese citizens from owning land, asserting it violates federal housing law and the 14th Amendment. The department filed a statement of interest (pdf) in a case challenging the provision, arguing the Florida law restricting Chinese land ownership by U.S. military installations and major infrastructure is unconstitutional. The DOJ ...

Former President Donald Trump could theoretically pardon himself after he was indicted in a federal investigation connected to whether he mishandled classified records, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. Speaking to Fox News, Turley said that for the 2024 election, “Trump could run on pardoning himself. You know, for people that feel that this is biased, that this ...

FBI conducted as many as 3.4 million U.S. person queries of Section 702 data in one year and used FISA data in Jan. 6 investigations News Analysis The FBI’s use of warrantless “backdoor searches” of a vast amount of information known as the Section 702 database—which is intended for targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States—to spy on ...

Two suspected Chinese agents were recently indicted for attempting to bribe a public official with tens of thousands of dollars in a scheme targeting the persecuted faith group Falun Gong in the United States. John Chen, a 70-year-old U.S. citizen born in China, and Lin Feng, a Chinese citizen aged 43, were trying to get a Falun Gong-run entity stripped ...

A Tennessee man colloquially referred to as the “zip tie guy,” along with his mother, were found guilty on felony charges for their actions in relation to the Jan. 6 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Royce Lamberth said in a press release that the actions of the duo and others ...

“I don’t believe for one second that this investigation of the classified documents began in November of 2022 like we’re being told now,” says Kash Patel. Classified documents have been found in multiple locations linked to President Joe Biden, including the Biden Penn Center and in the garage and an adjacent room at his Wilmington home. Hunter Biden, who does ...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has taken aim at what he says is a “double standard” in how both the media and Department of Justice responded to the discovery of classified documents at a Washington think tank that President Joe Biden worked at before taking office. Speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Jan. 10, Pence also criticized the FBI’s raid ...

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can continue to deliver abortion pills across the United States even after the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a legal opinion on Tuesday. The memorandum opinion (pdf) from the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel was sought by the USPS, which had asked the ...

The Justice Department’s watchdog determined that the FBI failed to properly document the facts in 29 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications that were reviewed in an audit. Read original article here. Gina Shakespeare is a film and television producer from New Zealand. Over the past 15 years, she has produced and directed hundreds of hours of content, including TV ...