The Justice Department is turning its antitrust firepower on the news business itself. The DOJ investigates networks ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC over their decision to temporarily suspend shared White House press pool duties last month, an extraordinary escalation of the Trump administration’s confrontation with the media that press-freedom advocates are calling intimidation … Read more
The NAACP poll monitors lawsuit has turned the 2026 midterms into a courtroom battle over who gets to watch Americans vote — and why. On Friday, October 16, 2026, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization sued the Department of Justice in federal court, asking a judge to block the Trump administration from deploying 1,000 federal … Read more
The Presidential Records Act faced its most serious legal challenge yet on Friday, October 16, 2026, as a federal appeals court in Washington heard arguments on the Trump administration’s claim that papers created in the White House belong to Donald Trump personally — not to the American people. Three judges of the U.S. Court of … Read more
The Trump sues California showdown escalated into open legal warfare on Thursday, October 15, 2026, when the Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to bar California from counting mail-in ballots cast by 20,000 people the federal government claims are “likely” noncitizens. The Justice Department wants those ballots set aside in next month’s … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked federal courts to strip American citizenship from 40 naturalized citizens, announcing what it called the largest denaturalization effort in modern history. The civil complaints, filed in federal courts between August 21 and October 2, accuse the individuals of concealing crimes, immigration fraud, or other disqualifying information during the … Read more