David Rohde
National Security Editor at NBC News
National security editor @NBCNews. Author of "Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI & the War on Democracy" TNY NYT alum [email protected]
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1 week ago |
cnbc.com | David Rohde |Ken Dilanian
In a blistering ruling, a federal judge blocked a new executive order from President Donald Trump punishing a prominent law firm that successfully sued Fox News for promoting false claims of election fraud. Loren L. AliKhan, speaking from the bench in her Washington, D.C., courtroom Tuesday, said Trump's order targeting the law firm Susman Godfrey was part of a "personal vendetta." "The framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power," AliKhan said.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Tom Winter |Kevin Collier |David Rohde |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins
President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed federal agencies to revoke the security clearances and review the activities of two high-level former government officials who questioned his election fraud claims and his conduct in his first term. Christopher Krebs, the former head of the federal government's top cybersecurity agency, said the 2020 elections were won by Joe Biden, contradicting Trump's claim that the election was stolen.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | David Rohde
A new memo from President Donald Trump that authorized the attorney general and the homeland security secretary to sanction law firms that file lawsuits they deem “frivolous" is a major escalation of his intensifying assault on law firms, legal experts and former Justice Department officials told NBC News.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | David Rohde
9 hours agoA legal showdown looms in Israel as Netanyahu moves to oust top officialsTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel again is fighting a war on multiple fronts, but a battle is also brewing inside the country. Tens of thousands of Israelis have joined anti-government protests in recent days. A former Supreme Court chief justice has warned of civil war.
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1 month ago |
nbclosangeles.com | Sarah Fitzpatrick |David Rohde
The Trump administration is slashing the size of the Justice Department's unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption, three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told NBC News. Only a small fraction of the section's employees - roughly a half-dozen - will remain in an office that, until recently, oversaw all federal public corruption cases nationwide and housed dozens of employees, two sources said.
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