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American politician and lawyer (born 1946)
Yes — Republicans have resigned at multiple levels during the Trump administrations: from Cabinet members and White House aides to members of Congress and political ambassadors, with turnover tracked ...
Stephen Miller was a central and active force behind the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero‑tolerance” policy that produced mass family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border. Documentary evidence—inter...
The Trump administration repeatedly tried to end or sharply limit DACA: in 2017 it announced plans to rescind the program and stop new applications, and later officials issued narrower renewal rules a...
The most direct evidence tying to white‑nationalist texts and websites comes from a 2019 disclosure of purported Miller emails that show him promoting and soliciting material from explicitly anti‑immi...
is best understood as a hardline, exclusionary nationalist whose ideology centers on nativist anti-, cultural defenseism, and institutionalizing cruelty as policy; multiple reports tie his thinking to...
The Mueller Report documented 10 episodes while Donald Trump was president (and one before his election) that the special counsel identified as potentially obstructive, and it described “substantial e...
Presidential administrations since 2000 have repeatedly shifted the executive branch’s use of prosecutorial discretion for C. §1325 (illegal entry), producing an oscillating pattern in which guidance,...
over the past decade have repeatedly scrutinized ’s interactions with minors — from class-action wins that curbed juvenile detention practices to emergency habeas releases and injunctions addressing d...
Three distinct federal turns — the launch in 2005, the ’s 2017–2018 prosecutorial push, and more recent surges under both the (as Title 42 unwound) and the 2025 Trump administration — account for the ...
The Trump administration’s “zero‑tolerance” policy, announced April 6, 2018, increased criminal prosecutions for unauthorized border crossers and — combined with a federal court limit on how long chil...
The immediate, traceable authorship of the Trump administration’s “” enforcement posture rests on two signed internal memoranda: ’s April 6, 2018 memorandum directing federal prosecutors to criminally...
’s “zero‑tolerance” policy directed systematic criminal prosecution of virtually all adults who crossed the southwest border unlawfully, a shift that led to the separation of children from parents whe...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) handles potential prosecutions of high-profile figures through established policies that prioritize departmental charging standards, internal review, and deference to l...
Department-wide manuals and successive Attorney General memoranda have materially shaped how federal prosecutors decide what charges to bring, steering discretion through formal principles, supervisor...
The record documenting the 2018 “zero‑tolerance” episode is extensive and multi-sourced: public announcements by Justice and Homeland Security officials, contemporaneous agency data and Inspector Gene...
In 2024–2025 congressional and media attention around the “Epstein files” led to subpoenas and deposition demands for several high‑profile figures and intermediaries; notably House Oversight Chairman ...
Previous and former U.S. attorneys general have been repeatedly asked to produce or explain Department of Justice files related to Jeffrey Epstein; the recent push includes subpoenas and depositions f...
Jeff Sessions directly authored and announced the Justice Department’s April 6, 2018 memorandum that created the so-called “zero-tolerance” approach to misdemeanor illegal entry, . Independent review ...
The Trump administration implemented a formal immigration policy in 2018 that directed federal prosecutors to criminally charge all adults who unlawfully crossed the U.S.–Mexico border, a move that an...