Sadie Gurman
Justice Department Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
I cover the Justice Department and federal law enforcement for @WSJ. I’m from Denver. Story ideas welcome: [email protected] #IStandWithEvan
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5 days ago |
wsj.com | Sadie Gurman |Aaron Zitner |Meridith McGraw
Federal courts raised the prospect of holding Trump officials in contempt. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has resisted calls to pre-emptively lower interest rates to cushion any economic fallout from Trump’s trade war. Former cybersecurity official Chris Krebs, targeted with a federal investigation for not going along with Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, quit his private-sector job so he could more freely battle the White House.
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5 days ago |
wsj.com | Sadie Gurman |Aaron Zitner |Meridith McGraw
Courts and universities try to preserve guardrails on presidential authority in the face of administration’s assertions of powerWASHINGTON—In moving to accumulate unprecedented power, President Trump has bulldozed his way through the traditional constraints of presidential authority with such force that institutions including universities, law firms and parts of Congress have been left reeling. This week, some started fighting back.
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wsj.com | Alyssa Lukpat |Sadie Gurman
April 16, 2025 1:09 pm ETThe man charged with setting the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on fire said he did so in defense of Palestinians. The suspect Cody Balmer called 911 on Sunday, the day of the attack, and said he needed Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat, to know that he “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” Pennsylvania State Police wrote in an affidavit released Wednesday. It couldn’t be determined what the suspect was referencing.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Sadie Gurman
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 1:39White House: Not Responsible to 'Effectuate' Return of Mistakenly Deported ManPlay video: White House: Not Responsible to 'Effectuate' Return of Mistakenly Deported ManWASHINGTON—When a judge expressed outrage that the first Trump administration had “spirited away” a mother and daughter in the middle of a hearing on their asylum claims, Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni didn’t argue.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Sadie Gurman
Reuveni brought that kind of frankness to court when defending some of the federal government’s hotly debated immigration policies under both Democrat and Republican presidents, colleagues said. In President Trump’s second term, that candor cost him his job.
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The Justice Department issued a statement emphasizing that the court recognized “the deference owed to the Executive Branch” in the conduct of foreign policy. It made no mention of the directive to seek Abrego Garcia’s return.
The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to seek the return of a migrant it mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison, an error it refused to remedy https://t.co/z9JJZxYc9S via @WSJ
RT @davidamichaels: The Justice Department is scaling back how it polices crypto companies. The policy outlines a new approach to AML enfor…
Trump and his allies have long believed the DC court was out to get him. That sense grew when, during his arraignment on election-interference charges, Boasberg & and several other judges appeared in the audience, watching from the back row. @cryanbarber
James Boasberg, the 6-foot-6 chief judge of the federal trial court in Washington, D.C., rarely ducks attention—and he is taking criticism from President Trump and his supporters in stride https://t.co/7VoQB6xF2C
