Charlie Savage

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Charlie Savage

The Justice Department's new rules for leak inquiries make it easier for investigators to bypass a legal restriction on search warrants to seize news gathering records. Attorney General Pam Bondi has rolled back a constraint on leak inquiries that the Justice Department imposed more than a decade ago, making it easier for investigators to get around a legal bar on search warrants to seize news gathering records.

1 week ago | infobae.com | Alan Feuer |Charlie Savage

Law and LegislationDecisions and VerdictsDeportationAmerican Civil Liberties UnionJustice DepartmentTren de Aragua (Gang)Abrego Garcia, Kilmar ArmandoBoasberg, James ETrump, Donald JWar and Emergency Powers (US)Alien Enemies Act (1798)TexasEl fallo, que se limita al Distrito Sur de Texas, prohíbe al gobierno utilizar la ley de tiempos de guerra, porque las afirmaciones del presidente sobre una pandilla venezolana no se ajustan a lo que se entendería por "invasión".

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alan Feuer |Charlie Savage

The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president's claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an "invasion."A federal judge on Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans it has deemed to be criminals from the Southern District of Texas, saying that the White House's use of the statute was illegal.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Charlie Savage |Devlin Barrett

The move was a reversal of a Biden-era policy that banned federal investigators from going after reporters' notes, phone records and testimony in leak investigations. The Justice Department unveiled a revised regulation for leak investigations on Thursday, restoring the ability of federal investigators to use court orders, warrants and subpoenas to go after reporters' phone records, notes or testimony under certain circumstances.

2 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Charlie Savage

WASHINGTON — Nearly every president has pushed the bounds of executive power to try to achieve something specific. And a handful of presidents who took office during a true national crisis, such as the Civil War or the depths of the Great Depression, swiftly made a series of legally aggressive moves to grapple with the challenges facing the country.