Washington (AFP) – The US Justice Department withdrew its case against former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn Thursday, handing President Donald Trump a major political victory.
The department said in a filing Flynn’s December 2017 guilty plea for lying to the FBI in an interview over his Russia contacts was moot because the lies were not significant.
It said the FBI’s original probe of him had no “legitimate investigative basis.
“The decision by the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Bill Barr, came as Flynn was fighting possible imprisonment, and af… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 7th, 2020 | Author: admin | Filed under: News | Tags: Attorney General William Barr, Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump, U.S. Justice Department | Comments Off on US Justice Dept drops case against ex-Trump aide Flynn
The U.S. Justice Department sued the State of New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy and NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal yesterday, seeking to halt the elements of Grewal’s Immigrant Trust Directive which 1) prohibit law enforcement officers from honoring ICE detention requests on illegal aliens in custody for other crimes and 2) require law enforcement officers to give those aliens written notice in their native language that ICE is looking for them.
“Jurisdictions that adopt sanctuary policies and instead release these criminals put all of Americans in harm’s way,” President Donald Trump said during remarks to the National Governors Association on Monday according to The Washington Post. “I know we have different policies, different feelings, different everything. But sanctuary cities are causing us a tremendous problem in this country. We have stone-cold killers that they don’t want to hand over to us and then they escape into communities and they cause, in some cases, tremendous havoc.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 11th, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: New Jersey | Tags: Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General William Barr, Governor Phil Murphy, Immigrant Trust Directive, New Jersey, President Donald Trump, Sanctuary State, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito | 2 Comments »