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Live updates: Senate departs for August recess; Blanche confirmed as AG

via The Hill News — Senators wrapped up a busy final stretch of work early Saturday, confirming Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department (DOJ) and passing a stopgap funding bill before adjourning for the August recess. Blanche, President Trump’s former personal attorney, has served as acting attorney general since April and was confirmed in a narrow 50-49 vote. Sens.…

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22 courts have rejected Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade. DOJ says they’re all just wrong

via - Democracy Docket — After 21 federal district courts and one federal appeals court panel slapped down the Trump administration’s attempt to grab states’ unredacted voter rolls, the Justice Department’s response has been remarkably consistent: we understand civil rights-era voting law better than all these judges. The department keeps advancing essentially the same legal theory from courthouse to courthouse […] The post 22 courts have rejected Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade. DOJ says they’re all just wrong appeared

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Trump’s former personal lawyer narrowly confirmed as US attorney general

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — US Senate confirms Todd Blanche in narrow vote despite concerns over independence of office.

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DOJ's top prosecutor in LA hires aide with pending battery charge, DUIs

via Home - CBSNews.com — First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli hired former top aide Shawn Lewis to be a federal law enforcement liaison, though Lewis has three prior convictions for driving under the influence and a pending battery charge.

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Blanche on track to become attorney general after Cassidy endorsement

via Home - CBSNews.com — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy on Friday endorsed Todd Blanche for attorney general, putting President Trump's former personal lawyer one step closer to the nation's top law enforcement role. CBS News congressional reporter Taurean Small has more.

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Prosecutor fired over blogposts critical of Trump sues US justice department

via US news | The Guardian — Will Rosenzweig’s defunct blog was publicized online by conservative pundit who tagged senior DoJ officials A federal prosecutor fired last year over critical comments he had written as a private citizen about Donald Trump sued the justice department on Friday, saying his termination violated his first amendment rights. Will Rosenzweig was two weeks away from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when a blog he had written years earlier covering a broad range of topics was publicized

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Trump suggests Fauci should be prosecuted - Reuters

via Google News — Trump suggests Fauci should be prosecuted Reuters

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RWE Agrees to $1.22 Billion DOJ Settlement Canceling U.S. Offshore Wind Leases for Natural Gas

RWE AG has agreed to abandon its U.S. offshore wind pipeline and redirect $1.22 billion into domestic natural gas projects under a settlement with the

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Who's Responsible for This Mess?

via Robert Reich — Friends, The New York Times says the “Justice Department struggles” with Trump’s demands that it prosecute his enemies. But who exactly is struggling? Career lawyers whose professional ethics are being compromised? Trump-loyalist appointees who presumably knew what they were getting into before they joined the regime? Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general who desperately wants to be the real thing? The same ambiguity crops up when the media reports that the “White House” wants this or that,