Cory Mills under DOJ Investigation

Trump's DOJ opens investigation into Florida Republican Cory Mills amid mounting misconduct allegations

Donald Trump's Justice Department has launched an investigation into Rep. Cory Mills, a Florida Republican already facing a two-year House Ethics Committee probe, adding federal scrutiny to a growing list of allegations that includes assault, sexual extortion, and campaign finance violations.

A person familiar with the matter confirmed the DOJ probe to the Daily Mail, though the specific focus of the investigation remains unclear. Mills' office did not respond to a request for comment on the federal inquiry.

The congressman, first elected in 2022 to represent Florida's 7th District, now faces simultaneous investigations from the Justice Department, the bipartisan House Ethics Committee, and Florida state law enforcement, a convergence of legal pressure that few sitting members of Congress have weathered.

The DOJ probe lands on top of allegations that have already drawn public demands from within Mills' own party. Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, has called for Mills to be stripped of his responsibilities over the misconduct claims.

And Mills' longtime chief of staff and chief counsel, Catherine Treadwell, abruptly resigned earlier this month, leaving behind a resignation letter with a single memorable line.

"The horrors persist, but I do not."

Treadwell thanked her co-workers in the letter but offered no further public explanation of what prompted her departure. The word "horrors", from someone who served as both Mills' top staffer and his chief legal adviser, hung without elaboration.

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Shifty Schiff came after Blanche--wrongly accused

Todd Blanche Fires Back at Adam Schiff: ‘You Can’t Accuse Me… and Then Lie’

Todd Blanche had a tense moment with Sen. Adam Schiff during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

Blanche, President Trump’s pick for attorney general, appeared before the panel as senators pressed him on his record, his work at the Justice Department, and his past role as Trump’s personal attorney.

Trump announced last month that he had nominated Blanche to serve as attorney general. The night before the hearing, Trump praised Blanche and urged the Senate to confirm him.

“Todd Blanche is doing a PHENOMENAL job as Acting Attorney General of the United States. Under Todd’s incredible leadership at DOJ, Murder is down to the LOWEST level since 1900, and we just saw the biggest one year drop in RECORDED HISTORY,” Trump said on Tuesday evening.

Schiff used part of his questioning to focus on volume II of Jack Smith’s report involving Trump. He accused Blanche of having a conflict of interest because Blanche previously represented Trump before joining the Justice Department.

Schiff also suggested Blanche played a role in keeping that portion of Smith’s report from being released to the public. Blanche did not let the accusation slide.

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Anti-Trumper Jack Smith

DOJ records reveal Jack Smith's team accessed text messages of 44 lawmakers, bypassing its own safeguards

Former special counsel Jack Smith's investigative team accessed the text messages of 44 members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, after bypassing the office's own internal screening protocols designed to protect privileged and constitutionally protected communications, newly released Department of Justice records show.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin disclosed the findings after the DOJ delivered the records on Tuesday.

The messages, sent between October 2020 and January 20, 2021, were exchanged between the lawmakers and Trump White House personnel. Smith's team obtained them from the National Archives and Records Administration as part of its twin investigations into former President Donald Trump.

The disclosure raises hard questions about the scope and discipline of Smith's probe, and about whether his sworn testimony before Congress squares with the paper trail the DOJ has now produced...Filter Team protocols ignored.

Smith's office had established what it called a "Filter Team", a standard DOJ mechanism meant to screen out privileged or constitutionally sensitive material before investigators could review it. Internal DOJ documents released to Grassley spelled out the rules plainly:

"All communication to/from the Filter Team must go through the Coordinator. No materials shall be disclosed to the investigative team without approval of a filter team attorney."

Those rules were not followed. Assistant Attorney General Patrick Davis, in a letter accompanying the records release, told Grassley that Smith's team "bypassed the Filter Team and directly accessed these text messages." The FBI then identified the individuals whose phone numbers sent or received the texts.

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Proof of Citizenship and Purging Voter Rolls

Department of Justice warns election officials that they could be criminally charged over noncitizen voters

"The Department of Justice has dispatched letters to election officials in several states, warning that knowingly keeping noncitizens on the voter rolls could expose them to criminal liability. The states receiving these letters span party lines, indicating the effort is not confined to one partisan target but reflects a wider federal push.

Election officials and outside experts who examined the letters told Votebeat they appear to function more as intimidation than as the groundwork for actual criminal cases.

The messaging leans on the threat of prosecution rather than presenting evidence of widespread wrongdoing, and multiple studies over the years have consistently found that noncitizen voting is exceptionally rare because it is already a serious federal crime carrying penalties including deportation.

The concern raised by voting rights advocates is that pressure of this kind pushes local administrators toward aggressive list maintenance to avoid personal legal exposure.

Overly broad purges have historically swept up naturalized citizens and other eligible voters, forcing them to prove their eligibility or lose access to the ballot. Nonpartisan election workers, already facing staffing shortages and heightened threats in recent years, now face an additional layer of federal pressure as they prepare to run upcoming elections." [Crowd Blue]

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Florida

Starting January 1, 2027, Florida requires officials to verify whether a prospective voter provided proof of citizenship when applying for a driver’s license or state ID card. If not, the person must provide proof of citizenship to be registered to vote. This also applies to individuals who are updating their registration with a change of name, address, or party affiliation.

Documents acceptable as proof of citizenship include:

(a) An original or certified copy of a United States birth certificate.
(b) A valid, unexpired United States passport.
(c) A naturalization certificate issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
(d) A Consular Report of Birth Abroad provided by the United States Department of State.
(e) A current and valid Florida driver's license or Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, if such license or identification card indicates United States citizenship.
(f) A current and valid photo identification issued by the Federal Government or the state which indicates United States citizenship.

Illegals/Traffickers arrested

Eleven illegal immigrants from Venezuela and Colombia indicted in multi-state sex trafficking, drug, and firearms case

Federal prosecutors have charged eleven Venezuelan and Colombian nationals in a sweeping, 30-count indictment alleging the sex trafficking of a minor, drug trafficking, and illegal firearms trafficking across at least four states.

Ten of the eleven defendants were arrested Tuesday in coordinated law enforcement operations spanning Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida. One defendant remains at large, with a listed residence in Mexico.

The case, announced by the Department of Justice, lays out an alleged criminal network that operated across state lines, trafficking at least nine firearms, selling ecstasy, and, most disturbingly, conspiring to sex traffic a girl between the ages of 14 and 18 along with an adult woman in central Ohio.

Ten of the eleven defendants are currently in the United States illegally. That fact alone should sharpen the focus for anyone still debating whether the federal government has an obligation to know who is inside this country and what they are doing here.

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Judge Brinkema Blocks DOJ Anti Weaponization Fund

Judge Brinkema Blocks Trump DOJ Anti-Weaponization Fund Payouts

A federal judge has put a temporary stop on the Trump Justice Department’s new Anti-Weaponization Fund, at least for now. That means anyone hoping to get money from the program will have to wait while the court sorts it out.

The ruling came Friday from U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who said the government cannot move forward until after a hearing.

The order blocks the DOJ “from taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund, which includes the transferring of money to the Fund; the consideration of any claims submitted to the Fund; and the disbursing of any funds from the Fund.”

A hearing is now set for June 12 in Alexandria, Virginia.

The case was brought by a group of plaintiffs that includes former career prosecutor Andrew Floyd, who says he was fired over his work on Jan. 6 cases. Other plaintiffs include California State University Channel Islands professor Jonathan Caravello, the watchdog group Common Cause, the city of New Haven, Connecticut, and the National Abortion Federation.

Judge Brinkema was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton. Her order keeps the fund on ice while the court reviews the challenge.

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Bondi shifted blame to her Deputy

Bondi concedes DOJ made 'redaction errors' in Epstein files, shifts responsibility to her deputy

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi sat for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Friday and acknowledged that the Justice Department made "redaction errors" during its release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files, but placed the blame squarely on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the man who now runs the department she left two months ago.

The admission, delivered in a transcribed but unsworn session that Democrats protested was neither videotaped nor conducted under oath, marks the first time Bondi has publicly conceded specific failures in a process she once promised would bring full transparency to one of the most disturbing sex-trafficking cases in American history.

USA Today reported that Bondi told lawmakers she had delegated oversight of the document review to Blanche and did not personally conduct it.

In her opening statement, she framed the release as "an enormously complicated and labor-intensive process" involving roughly 3 million documents, a stack she once compared to the height of the Eiffel Tower.

The Washington Examiner noted that Bondi told lawmakers she didn't lead every aspect of the Epstein files review, reinforcing her posture of distance from the operational details.

She claimed the DOJ had "produced everything required" by the Epstein Files Transparency Act and that staffers did "our very best in the time frame allotted by the legislation to protect victims."

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Obama's Memory problem

Obama - Bad Memory

Redistricting Ruling Not Limited to Louisiana

DOJ Says It Will Enforce Supreme Court Redistricting Ruling Nationwide

Justice Department officials indicated the Court’s reasoning applies well beyond a single state, signaling that federal authorities will review maps nationwide for similar issues.

The department has already taken steps in other cases, arguing that race-based districting violates constitutional equal protection guarantees, and has moved to challenge maps it views as unlawful.

The DOJ’s stance opens the door to a new wave of litigation, particularly in states that:

• Created majority-minority districts using explicit racial targets
• Drew irregular or non-compact districts tied to race
• Attempted to comply with prior court rulings by emphasizing race in map design

Legal experts say the decision could trigger map redraws ahead of future elections, especially in the South and other battleground regions.

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Kash Patel Says FBI Has Evidence 2020 Election Was Stolen

Kash Patel Just Announced Arrests Are Coming in the 2020 Election Case

He Named the Counties Where FBI Already Seized Ballots

James Comey got his target letter last week.

Now Kash Patel is telling America that Comey is not the only one who should be worried.

What Patel said on live television Saturday has the people who ran the 2020 election machine reaching for their lawyers right now. Maria Bartiromo asked Patel a simple question on Fox News Saturday morning: what is the FBI actually doing about 2020?

Patel did not hedge. "We are going to be making arrests," he said. "And it's coming soon." No qualifiers. No "ongoing investigation" dodge.

He went further – confirming the FBI has completed its evidence gathering and is now working with prosecutors and Attorney General Todd Blanche to build what he described as a "conspiracy case" tied to the 2020 presidential election.

"We have the information that backs President Trump's claim," Patel told Bartiromo. "We're working with our prosecutors, the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making arrests, and it's coming – and I promise you, it's coming soon."

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It's no wonder Democrats want Kash fired.

Drop the Lawsuit says Department of Justice

DOJ leverages Correspondents' Dinner shooting to demand preservationists drop Trump ballroom lawsuit

Hours after a gunman opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, the Justice Department moved to turn the crisis into leverage, sending the National Trust for Historic Preservation a letter demanding it dismiss its lawsuit against President Donald Trump's planned $400 million White House ballroom by 9 a.m. Monday or face a government motion to throw the case out.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted the letter on X with a blunt message: "It's time to build the ballroom." The letter, written by Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, called the Washington Hilton, where some 2,300 guests had gathered Saturday night, "demonstrably unsafe" for events involving the president.

The move marks the sharpest escalation yet in a legal and political fight that has simmered since last fall, when Trump ordered the demolition of the White House East Wing to clear ground for a massive 90,000-square-foot ballroom and bunker complex.

The administration's argument is straightforward: the president should not have to attend large events at venues the Secret Service cannot fully secure. Saturday's shooting gave that argument fresh and visceral force.

The letter and the deadline--

Shumate's letter, reported by PBS NewsHour and the Associated Press, framed the demand in urgent terms. Writing "in light of last night's extraordinary events," Shumate stated that the Hilton's size "presents extraordinary security challenges for the Secret Service."

The ballroom project, he wrote, "will ensure the safety and security of the President for decades to come and prevent future assassination attempts on the President at the Washington Hilton."

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Democrats always come up with something to bitch about and the ballroom is not costing the taxpayers a dime. All money was raised through private donors.

A federal appeals court permitted construction to proceed in April 2026, though a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation was ongoing regarding the lack of approval for the project.

Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted on 11 Counts

'MASSIVE!' Feds indict SPLC for using donor money to pay white supremacists to stage 'hate crimes'

'Was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred'

A federal grand jury in Alabama has delivered an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, the now-scandal ridden activist group that came to fame by suing Ku Klux Klan organizations into bankruptcy.

Its next agenda was to incorrectly describe those with beliefs it disliked, Christians with pro-life and traditional marriage views, as "hate" organizations.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). The indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

"The SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups," Todd Blanche, acting attorney general, confirmed.

Read about the real "hate" group

"The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred." The charges include six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy.

FBI Severed Ties: In October 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel severed ties with the SPLC, labeling it a "partisan smear machine" that used its "hate map" to defame mainstream groups. The SPLC lists Act for America as a hate group.

Oath Keepers and Proud Boys -- permanent dismissal of their indictments before Appellate court

Justice Department asks appeals court to erase seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders

The Justice Department on April 14 asked a federal appeals court to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of top Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders, a move that would wipe some of the most consequential January 6 criminal verdicts from the books and bar prosecutors from ever refiling the same charges.

Prosecutors filed unopposed motions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seeking to throw out the convictions and send the cases back to the trial court for dismissal with prejudice.

That legal term means the government could never bring those specific charges again against the same defendants. The filings cover a roster of high-profile January 6 figures, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, and Proud Boys members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola.

The step goes well beyond the commutations and pardons President Trump issued to January 6 defendants in January 2025. Commutations shortened sentences but left the underlying convictions intact. Pardons forgave the offenses but did not necessarily erase the court record.

What the DOJ now seeks is a full vacatur of the jury verdicts themselves, followed by permanent dismissal of the indictments.

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OMG' team attacked in Los Angeles

Caught on Tape--Cash and Drug exchange for registering voters in California

In the most alarming development yet in O'Keefe Media Group's Cash for Ballots investigation, hidden-camera footage captures a violent attack on OMG journalists on Skid Row in Los Angeles.

Three individuals — the same illegal petition circulators previously documented exchanging cash and drugs for voter registrations, video below — ambushed the team after journalists returned to confront them on camera. Cameraman Mike was punched in the neck, a team member was pepper sprayed at close range, and James O'Keefe was briefly separated from his crew in the chaos.

When the team located a police officer at the scene and reported the assault — and the ongoing illegal petition fraud — his response was: "I ain't getting involved in that. No comment." He then acknowledged: "I saw one of your videos already." He was aware of the fraud. He chose not to act.

The DOJ has the tapes. The LA DA's Public Integrity Division is coordinating with OMG. Governor Newsom, the U.S. Attorney, the California Secretary of State, the White House, and President Trump have all responded to the investigation. Part III is in production.



Are we ever going to see our DOJ arrest anyone?

Lt. General Michael Flynn settles with Dept.of Justice over malicious prosecution

Justice Department settles with Michael Flynn, pays $1.2 million over Russia probe prosecution

The Department of Justice reached a settlement Wednesday with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, agreeing to pay the former national security advisor approximately $1.2 million to resolve a lawsuit in which he alleged wrongful and malicious prosecution during the Russia investigation.

The DOJ called the deal an "important step in redressing" what it described as a "historic injustice."

A notice of settlement was filed in the Middle District of Florida. Official court papers reviewed by Fox News Digital do not disclose the financial terms, but the Associated Press reported the government will pay Flynn roughly $1.2 million. The case will be dismissed with prejudice (Dismissed with prejudice" means a lawsuit or criminal charge is permanently terminated by a court, acting as a final judgment on the merits) once Flynn confirms receipt of the funds.

Each party will bear its own legal costs. The court will not retain jurisdiction over the agreement.

That $1.2 million is a fraction of the $50 million Flynn sought when he filed suit in 2023. But the settlement's real weight lies elsewhere, in the federal government's implicit acknowledgment that the prosecution of a three-star general and decorated combat veteran was, at minimum, something that needed to be made right with money.

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Prior to this settlement, court records from 2019 showed that Flynn had incurred over $4.6 million in legal fees relating to his criminal investigation and lobbying inquiries, with some of that amount being unpaid.

I think the government should have paid all of his legal fees.

"Too Late" Jerome Powell should leave at end of Fed Term

Jerome Powell Doubles Down On Past Rate Mistakes

By Peter Navarro
March 19, 2026

In holding rates steady, Jerome Powell—the worst Fed Chair since Arthur Burns—has once again let his anti-Trump animus cloud his judgment. The damage will not show up only on Wall Street.

It will show up in the monthly payment on a starter home, the financing costs of a machine-tool purchase, the builder who delays a project, the manufacturer who shelves an expansion, and the family that watches its credit costs stay painfully high while the Powell Fed congratulates itself for being “disciplined.”

This is not just a spiteful and damaging policy mistake. It is a fundamental misreading of the economy.

Powell continues to act as if inflation is broad-based, demand-driven, and on the verge of reaccelerating. Powell has clearly signaled his intention to remain on the Board of Governors even after his term as Chair expires.

This is nothing more than a Powell extortion expedition for a “plea deal”—having possibly acted above the law, he is trying to evade any possible accountability by conditioning his departure on the Department of Justice dropping its probe of Powell.

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Biden Autopen Pardons Were the Presidential Scandal of the Decade and DOJ Just Let It Die

Bondi Betrays Trump Again With Autopen Announcement That Hands Democrats the Win Trump Needed Most

Joe Biden's mental decline was the open secret everyone in official Washington refused to admit publicly until his 2024 debate performance made it undeniable.

The only question was how his aides running the country from the shadows ever thought they’d get away with it.

Now it seems the whole time they must have been counting on the DOJ betrayal Pam Bondi's prosecutors just shocked Washington with in the Biden autopen case.

The House Oversight Committee spent months building the case. Fourteen depositions. Forty-seven hours of testimony. A report documenting how Biden's inner circle – Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Dr. Kevin O'Connor – exercised presidential power while Biden declined behind closed doors.

All three aides pleaded the Fifth Amendment rather than answer a single question under oath. And Pam Bondi's DOJ just shrugged.

CBS News confirmed that prosecutors in Jeanine Pirro's DC US Attorney's office dropped the criminal probe because they "were never able to find a legal hook" to pursue the matter. The New York Times called it the latest sign that DOJ could not convert Trump's demands into prosecutions.

That's not a legal problem. That's a failure of will.

China undermining our country

Groups helping Communist China

More than 2,000 groups across the United States, Canada, Germany, and the UK are helping the Chinese Communist Party advance its agenda by exercising influence in democratic nations, according to a report published on Wednesday.

They are advancing its agenda by exercising influence in democratic nations, according to a Jamestown Foundation report published on Feb. 11.

The report maps these organizations, which, by some counts, mobilize tens of thousands of actors on behalf of CCP interests. These are groups that fall under the CCP’s United Front Work Department, which came to the spotlight only a few years ago when a human rights group exposed the “secret police stations” run by Chinese officials on foreign soil.

The report’s author identified 347 groups in Germany, 405 in the UK, 575 in Canada, and 967 in the United States, which it says are likely only the tip of the iceberg.

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Based on Department of Justice reports and a December 2024 guilty plea, China operated at least one secret police station in New York City. While U.S. authorities shut down this Manhattan location in 2022 after an FBI investigation, these operations, which target the Chinese diaspora for transnational repression, remain a major security concern.

Walz and Frey under Investigation

Justice Department investigates Tim Walz, Jacob Frey over immigration agent obstruction claims

The Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal probe into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, stirring tensions over federal immigration enforcement, the New York Post reports.

The investigation, still in its early stages according to a source speaking to CBS News, targets whether Walz and Frey, both Democrats, conspired to hinder federal immigration agents.

This follows their public criticism of the deployment of nearly 3,000 federal law enforcement officers to the Minneapolis area in recent weeks. The Justice Department has not yet responded to requests for comment on the matter.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has suggested that actions by state and local officials, including statements perceived as threats against officers, could border on federal crimes. Attorney General Pam Bondi also issued a pointed reminder to Minnesota officials that no one stands above legal accountability.

Both Walz and Frey have pushed back, framing the investigation as an overreach of federal power.

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