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The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its decision to rescind the Obama-era DACA program Tuesday night. The request is unusual, because legal challenges to DACA’s termination are still underway in the lower courts. The Justice Department said the Court must act now to resolve the dispute this term, but left-leaning civil rights groups called the petition a political student ahead of Tuesday’s election The Trump administration returned to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday night seeking to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era amnesty initiative that extends protected status to illegal aliens...

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to preemptively step into the legal fights over its decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and decide this term whether the move was lawful. Solicitor Noel Francisco filed a petition with the court on Monday asking the justices to hear their case and issue an opinion before the 2nd, 9th and D.C. Circuit courts of appeals have ruled.

"Rednecks"....."Inbred" What federal agents called supporter of the Bundy's and the Bundy's according to Wooten Memo "Tractor Face" What federal agent called Ryan Bundy according to Wooten Memo Independent candidate for Nevada governor Ryan Bundy is suing over the federal government's conduct in the Bunkerville Standoff case. Its a case that Republican prosecutor Steven Myhre, backed up by the Republican Jeff Sessions appointed US Attorney in Nevada, Dayle Elieson, are appealing to the Ninth Circuit Court hoping to have charges reinstated against three Bundy family members and other key defendants. Attorney Larry Klayman is bringing the civil rights lawsuit in...

President Trump visited Pittsburgh Tuesday to offer condolences following Saturday's massacre at a synagogue... If the polling data is any indicator and if one assumes its a bit biased towards the Democrats, the Republicans will certainly improve their majority in the US Senate in the mid-term elections with some losses in the House likely. Convicted Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead in a federal prison in West Virginia beaten "nearly beyond recognition"..... Word today that the United States is pressuring Saudi Arabia to agree to a cease fire in Yemen's civil war... The "Sunday Express" in the...

It’s no secret that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ days as Attorney General are numbered. The main questions are: (1) How will his exit be handled and (2) Who will replace him. I have no insight as to the second question. One hears names like Matthew Whitaker (a former U.S. Attorney — and University of Iowa football player — who currently is Sessions’ chief of staff); Alex Azar, the Secretary of HHS (and not to confused with Alex Acosta); and Rep. John Ratcliffe (another former U.S. Attorney). However, I have no idea whether or to what degree these three (and others)...

Thousands of illegal immigrants are traveling through Central America and Mexico on their way to the US southern border. The illegals will seek asylum within the United States. But they’re not sending their best. Illegal immigrant “Jose” says he wants back in the United States. Jose is wanted for attempted murder.

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House Republicans postponed a closed-door interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein originally scheduled for Wednesday. Snip~~ The midterms are less than two weeks away. If Rosenstein doesn’t appear before House Republicans before the midterms and the Democrats take the House, goodbye oversight.

U.S. Atty Office filed highest number of narcotics violent crime indictments since 2005 https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndoh/pr/us-attorneys-office-filed-highest-number-narcotics-and-violent-crime-indictments-least The U.S. Attorney's Office filed highest number of narcotics and violent crime indictments since at least 2005 Under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice charged the largest number of violent crime and firearm defendants in its history in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. According to data from the Executive Office of United States Attorneys (EOUSA), the number of defendants charged with criminal felony offenses increased by nearly 15 percent from more than 71,200 defendants in FY 2017 to more than 81,800 in...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions celebrated the four-year prison sentence handed down Thursday for former FBI agent Terry Albury, calling it "a warning to every would-be leaker." Albury was sentenced in Minnesota after pleading guilty to providing classified information to reporters. He is believed to have sent The Intercept documents that included a guide to informant recruitment and rules for seizing journalist records. "We are conducting perhaps the most aggressive campaign against leaks in Department history," Sessions said in an afternoon statement.

Deep State: Rep. Jim Jordan said during a Fox News interview Tuesday evening that he believes Attorney General Jeff Sessions will soon become an ex-attorney general following the midterm elections. The Ohio Republican also told host Martha McCallum it’s “obvious” to him that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is actually running the Justice Department, though he doesn’t seem happy about that.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday lit into federal judges for what he called a dramatic uptick in “outrageous” decisions threatening to interfere with the separation of powers by exposing internal White House deliberations. In a fiery speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, Sessions warned that “once we go down this road in American government, there is no turning back.” He vowed to take “these discovery fights to the Supreme Court in emergency postures. … We intend to fight this, and we intend to win.” Sessions specifically singled out New York district court judge Jesse M. Furman, who...

President Trump said Thursday that he supports prison reform and that Attorney General Jeff Sessions' opposition doesn't represent his administration's position. "If he doesn't [support reform], then he gets overruled by me. Because I make the decision, he doesn't," Trump said during a phone interview broadcast on "Fox and Friends." Sessions, an opponent of criminal justice reform, argues the pending First Step Act would make the country less safe, threatening one of the top priorities of presidential adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Katie Pavlich: "Prediction: Senator Lindsey Graham is going to Attorney General and Nikki Haley will replace his Senate seat in South Carolina."

"Time to wrangle up the corruption in Nevada! #DraintheSwamp #Bundy #MAGA https://www.governorbundy.com/issues" Facebook post 10/8/2018 at "Ryan Bundy for Nevada Governor" "...this is truly slave trade and human trafficking that's taking place within the court system. This has to stop...." Independent Candidate for Nevada Governor Ryan Bundy talks about his experience with federal courts and the prison system in mainstream media While the charges are dismissed against Ryan Bundy, his father Cliven and brother Ammon, over the 2014 Bunkerville Standoff Republican prosecutor Steve Myhre along with the Republican (AG Jeff Sessions) appointed US Attorney for Nevada are appealing. Meanwhile the...

Is it me, or has Jeff went completely underground recently? He used to pop up every now and then with some worthless statement about pot or illegal immigration, but lately it seems he’s completely disappeared. Has he been spending his time on LinkedIn updating his resume? Getting ready for the day after elections? I’m worried for the old elf.

A left-wing federal judge with a history of ruling against the Trump administration ruled against it again Friday by revoking its right to enforce federal immigration laws in California and demanding it funnel a total $28 million in unpaid grant money to “sanctuary cities” like San Francisco. The ruling by William Orrick concerned a decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year to revoke funding from so-called “sanctuary cities” unless they began abiding my federal immigration laws.

On Thursday (September 27th) one of the 19 men arrested in connection with April 2014's Bunkerville Standoff near Nevada's Bundy ranch, Blaine Cooper, was sentenced in connection with his plea deal. Cooper was sentenced at US District Court in Las Vegas to 20 months in prison, the time he was held following his 2016 arrest. He is also facing three years of supervised release in connection with his Bunkerville and Oregon Standoff case plea. Cooper pled guilty to conspiracy and assault on a federal officer in connection with Bunkerville, a stituation where nobody harmed a hair on anybody else. However,...