Whoever holds the job in the long term will almost certainly be expected to carry out Trump’s retribution campaign with more success, said Jimmy Gurule, a former Justice Department official and law professor at The University of Notre Dame.
Bondi upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees and moved aggressively to investigate the Republican president’s perceived enemies.
Friday’s filing was the second time the Trump administration sued Harvard this year.
As part of the merger, Nexstar is expected to divest six TV stations, including one in Indianapolis.
On Wednesday, Jerome Powell said he would remain as chair of the Fed’s interest rate-setting committee after his term ends if no successor has been confirmed.
The committee’s Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer, accused Democrats of political grandstanding.
The Justice Department reached a settlement with Live Nation last week to open up some ticketing and promotional markets to more competition, but 30 states are still pursuing the case.
This is the first time the federal government is known to have used the designation — designed to prevent foreign adversaries from harming national security systems — against a U.S. company.
The case accused Live Nation of using threats, retaliation and other tactics to “suffocate the competition” by controlling virtually every aspect of the industry, from concert promotion to ticketing.
The Justice Department had on Monday moved to abandon its effort to revive sanctions against the law firms, which had hired Trump’s perceived foes or took on cases he disliked.
The trial stems from a lawsuit filed in 2024 that alleged the companies have dominated the industry by suffocating competitors and controlling everything from concert promotion to ticketing.
Agents seized a phone, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive and a smart watch when they searched the reporter’s home on Jan. 14, part of an investigation into whether a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information.
The motion asks the judge to “order reasonable limits on the government’s use of the seized data” and to prohibit the government from using the data for purposes other than the criminal investigation cited in the search warrant affidavit.
Congress is discussing potential new rules for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection after officers shot and killed two Minneapolis protesters in January.
The subpoenas, which seek records, were sent to the offices of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties,
The terminations and a larger voluntary exodus of lawyers have erased centuries of combined experience and left the department with fewer career employees to act as a bulwark for the rule of law.
The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he has repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers.
A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty on Monday to the federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela.
The allegations were laid out in a Justice Department memo arguing that Brian J. Cole Jr., who was arrested earlier this month on charges of placing pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national committees, should remain locked up while the case moves forward.
The release is the most voluminous so far and comes after a massive public campaign for transparency into the U.S. government’s Epstein investigations.