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Fireworks as Jim Jordan and Rod Rosenstein Spar Over Documents

“Mr. Rosenstein, why are you keeping information from Congress?” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, setting off a fiery and contentious interview that saw both men slinging barbs at each other.

Rod Rosenstein, Jim Jordan

18 Democrat AGs Ask Courts to Make Kids into Golden Tickets

Its main focus is on forcing the administration to give up its policy of enforcing American immigration laws and adopt a bevy of open-borders policies aimed at allowing, effectively, unlimited numbers of people to enter the country without recourse.

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Court Limits Sanctuary City Funding Order to Chicago

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday temporarily limited the scope of an injunction forcing the Justice Department to keep dispersing funds to so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions to just the City of Chicago.

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DOJ Asks Court to Let Them Keep Border Crossing Families Together

The Department of Justice (DOJ), acting on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to keep parents charged with illegally crossing the U.S. border united with their children, asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Thursday to grant the government relief from 1997’s “Flores Settlement.”

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Henry McMaster: Enthusiasm for Trump Compares to a Beatles Concert

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, the first statewide elected official anywhere in America to endorse Donald Trump for president, joined Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday – the day of his primary election to keep the office to which he appointed after Nikki Haley joined the administration last year.

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AG Jeff Sessions Resets Obama’s Asylum Expansion

Attorney General Jeff Sessions exercised his authority Monday as the ultimate reviewer of the immigration court system to overrule a series of Obama era decisions that were allowing the radical expansion of the American asylum system.

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Steve Scalise Slams Big Tech Bias at Road to Majority Conference

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), approaching the one year anniversary of his near fatal wounding by a crazed shooter, addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference, where he raised concerns over Big Tech bias against conservatives.

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Bill Clinton Addresses Weinstein, Franken, Changing Norms

Former President Bill Clinton promoted the new political thriller he wrote with James Patterson Thursday in an interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff, who grilled him on Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, and changing sexual harassment “norms.”

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Alleged Deep State Leaker James Wolfe Makes First Court Appearance

James Wolfe, the former Senate Intelligence Committee security director charged with lying about his contacts with a series of journalists – including his former paramour, New York Times reporter Ali Watkins – appeared in court Friday after his arrest late Thursday night.

James Wolfe

Superseding Indictment in Manafort Case Names Russia-Linked Defendant

Special Counsel Robert Mueller secured yet another indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Friday, adding obstruction of justice charges based on the same “witness tampering” Mueller’s prosecutors alleged Monday in a motion to have Manafort’s bail revoked.

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Sen. Orrin Hatch Reiterates Support for Mitt Romney

Retiring Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) gave another endorsement of his chosen successor, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, in his Thursday address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference on Capitol Hill.

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DOJ and FBI Offer More Spygate Details to Bipartisan Congressional Leaders

Representatives of the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI proposed a second meeting with the leaders of both parties in Congress Wednesday, offering to flesh out the information on one or more “informants” in the 2016 Trump campaign they provided at a briefing last month.

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Imran Awan, IT Staffer to Top House Democrats, Nears Plea Deal

Imran Awan, former IT staffer to then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, may be close to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in a bizarre criminal case with potential national security implications.

Imran Awan and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).