The acting lead attorney of the Southern District of New York and five other Justice Department officials resigned on Thursday rather than follow a directive to drop federal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
The Justice Department has officially recommended that federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams be dropped, with critics seeing it as a "quid pro quo" for Adams' support of President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice has released the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith on their investigation of Donald Trump's alleged election interference, with social media expressing their outrage over the findings.
Lawyers for Donald Trump filed an emergency motion to block the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report, which was granted by District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday. The Department of Justice has filed an appeal.
Social media influencer and Donald Trump supporter Douglass Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison for attempting to block Black people from voting in the 2016 election, according to the Department of Justice.
As former President Donald Trump has received a third indictment, this time for his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, a Black woman will preside over the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan was randomly assigned to the case by the court, and has had experience dealing with Trump in the past as well as experience handing down tough sentences to Jan.6th attackers.
The Department of Justice has unsealed its federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, detailing 38 counts related to his withholding highly classified documents and obstructing attempts to retrieve them. The damning allegations detail the documents contained national defense information and foreign defense secrets exposed at his Mar-A-Lago estate.
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts related to his mishandling of sensitive classified documents. Trump broke the news on his social media network, declaring that he would report to a federal court in Miami, Florida next Tuesday.
A report from the Department of Justice revealed that its investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department showed that it exhibited constant racial abuse of its Black citizens and those with behavioral issues. The 90-page report showed that officers routinely hurled racial epithets and utilized excessive force, particulalry against those protesting the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020.
U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice issued a memo last Friday directing federal prosecutors to revise rules and practices in pursuing convictions in drug cases. This move addresses the racial disparities that have targeted Black and Latinx defendants for years, leading to them receiving heavier sentences for possession of crack cocaine as opposed to those who possessed nearly twenty times that amount in powdered cocaine.
The Department of Justice is reportedly now investigating Ticketmaster & its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment after the highly public breakdown during an online presale ticket event for Taylor Swift's upcoming 'Eras' tour. Anonymous sources close to the DOJ state that they're contacting music venues and other ticket retailers to gauge the company's effect on the industry.
Being Black in America has always had it’s challenges but as more statistics move the forefront we are seeing concrete proof of cities and states in America not only targeting Black people for existing but it’s also for profit.