Biden Justice Department
May 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Spirit Airlines is now out of business. In financial trouble, it tried to merge with JetBlue in 2024. Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, spurred on by leftists like Elizabeth Warren, opposed and successfully blocked the merger: I've warned for months that a @JetBlue–@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation. This is
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March 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Do you remember the massive Biden-era censorship case that was litigated mostly as Missouri v. Biden? I wrote about the case in several posts including “Walk away, Joe.” The case resulted in a disappointing Supreme Court opinion that avoided the merits on the ground of standing in Murthy v. Missouri. I anticipated the result after the oral argument of the case which I summarized in “To the Supreme Court” (citing
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February 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The extent to which the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland was weaponized to serve the Democratic Party is a scandal that is still unraveling. The FBI was particularly turned to partisan ends, a scandal for which there has yet been no accounting. It has most recently come to light that in 2023, the FBI tapped the phones secretly subpoenaed phone records of both Kash Patel–now, ironically, the Director of
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December 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday, the FBI delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee emails relating to the search of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Senator Charles Grassley has released what I take to be all of the responsive documents. Comments you may have seen on the emails are correct: the FBI didn’t think there was probable cause to search Trump’s home, but Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice insisted. The FBI thought they should communicate with
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November 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This is one of those stories that seem impossible, but are obviously important if true. FBI Director Kash Patel, appearing on a podcast, reportedly suggested that CIA Director Gina Haspel bribed intelligence officers to go along with the Democrats’ theory of covid origins: FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell during a recent interview with Glenn Beck…. *** Patel reminded Beck that the team briefed Trump based on the intelligence
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November 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Arctic Frost was the code name under which the Biden FBI conducted a sweeping, illicit investigation of much of the Republican Party. Arctic Frost was intended as the basis for the criminal case that Special Counsel Jack Smith brought against Donald Trump, who was then out of power, relating to his efforts to “overturn” the 2020 presidential election. That case eventually was dismissed, deservedly so. On Wednesday, Senator Chuck Grassley,
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October 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Jonathan Van Patten is professor emeritus at the University of South Dakota School of Law. Read more about him in the dedication of volume 66 of the South Dakota Law Review (2021). He has kindly taken up the question I raised regarding prosecutorial immunity for Jack Smith in “The return of Krazee-Eyez Killa.” Would Smith be immune from civil or criminal liability for claims that he violated the law by
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October 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as Special Counsel to do his share of the Biden administration’s dirty work in the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago documents cases. The appointment document is posted online on Smith’s page in the Department of Justice online archives here. Thanks to the relentless digging of Senator Chuck Grassley, yesterday it was revealed that the FBI spied on eight GOP senators during its sweeping
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September 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Alex Thompson’s Axios story “Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen” is in the Axiotic form, but is not what I have come to call Axiotic. It seems to me to contribute to our understanding of the late Politburo regency period of the alleged Biden administration. It adds some disgraceful factual background to what we have come to understand of one disgraceful component of a disgraceful
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June 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
We know now that Joe Biden and Merrick Garland corrupted and politicized the Department of Justice to a degree never before seen in American history. Biden’s DOJ went after the Catholic Church and parents who didn’t like what their school boards were doing, and that was shameful. But target number one for Biden’s DOJ was Biden’s biggest political rival, Donald Trump. The Biden administration was a banana republic era in
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May 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Senior United States District Judge Paul Magnuson has granted the Trump Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the pending lawsuit brought by the Biden Justice Department against the City of Minneapolis. The Biden administration brought the lawsuit and filed a joint motion for a consent decree with municipal authorities on January 6 this year, patently to beat the incoming Trump administration. I started writing about the lawsuit charging the Minneapolis
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May 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the Department of Justice moved to dismiss the consent decrees that were to be operative against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments. We have sought to cut through the din and expose the ludicrous “analysis” underlying the charges against the Minneapolis police department roughly since the day Merrick Garland came to town to announce them. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon explains the Trump administration’s opposition to these consent decrees
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May 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I have spent a lot of time and pixels covering the charges brought by the Biden Department of Justice against the City of Minneapolis. Attorney General Merrick Garland came to town in June 2023 to charge the Minneapolis Police Department with racism, find it guilty, and announce the terms to which municipal authorities had agreed. The charges were based on an 89-page report that is still accessible here. The report
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January 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The lawyer who calls himself Shipwreckedcrew on Substack and X is an attorney with 22 years of experience as a federal prosecutor and with the representation of some 90 January 6 defendants as their counsel. His RedState column “Who Was Responsible for Using an Inapplicable Felony Charge Against J6 Defendants?” explains the task that Acting D.C. United States Attorney Ed Martin has undertaken on behalf of the Trump administration. Mr.
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January 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Two weeks before the inauguration of President Trump, the Biden Department of Justice filed its charge and proposed consent decree with the City of Minneapolis. The consent decree is to govern the behavior of the Minneapolis police in minute detail. The case is pending in federal district court here before Judge Paul Magnuson. As I write this morning, Judge Magnuson has yet to set a hearing on the motion to
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January 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis — the local union –has moved to intervene in the case seeking to impose a consent decree on the Minneapolis Police Department. The motion was filed yesterday as the approval of the consent decree remains pending before Judge Paul Magnuson. The the Biden Department of Justice and the Minneapolis authorities filed the case last week in the hope that they would beat the arrival
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January 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Biden administration and Minneapolis municipal authorities are racing to obtain court approval of a consent decree tying the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department for the foreseeable future. They want to beat the arrival of the new sheriff at the Department of Justice after January 20. With essentially the same scenario playing out in Louisville, Judge Benjamin Beaton posed a few questions to the parties by order dated December
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