DoJ is in ‘full cover-up mode’, says prime Home Democrat on judiciary committee following Comey indictment
Per my colleague Chris Stein’s reporting earlier, that Democrats on the Home judiciary committee are calling Republican management to permit survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to testify, congressman Jamie Raskin – the committee’s rating member – stated that the indictment of James Comey is as a result of the justice division is in “full cover-up mode”.
“They’re doing the bidding of President Trump with respect to Mr Comey, they’re doing the bidding of President Trump with respect to overlaying up circumstances,” Raskin stated in an interview with CNN Information Central.
He added:
What we see is the entire politicization of the Division of Justice. However we’re within the midst of making an attempt to get this info with apparently actual crimes. And we’ve obtained a robust, bipartisan majority saying, ‘Cease the cover-up of the Epstein information. Simply go forward and launch them.’”
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High Home Democrat slams Trump for attending Ryder cup with looming authorities shutdown simply days away
In a fast press convention at the moment on Capitol Hill, Home minority chief Hakeem Jeffries scolded the president for his journey to New York at the moment. “Donald Trump, get again to Washington DC. Why are you at a golf occasion proper now and the federal government is 4 days away from closing?,” the congressman stated. “That’s outrageous. And it speaks to the truth that these extremists might care much less concerning the well being, security, and financial wellbeing of the American folks. They’re on trip proper now.”
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Lower than 24 hours after the indictment of James Comey, the president stated that he hopes “extra” political adversaries will probably be prosecuted. Talking to reporters earlier than he left DC to attend the Ryder Cup in New York, Trump maintained that the previous FBI director’s prosecution was “about justice … not about revenge”. The president kicked off the day with Reality Social posts that referred to as Comey “a unclean cop” and “destroyer of lives”.
In the meantime, Democrats and authorized specialists say indictment is newest signal Trump is popping justice system into weapon to silence critics, as my colleague Chris Stein studies.
Trump additionally continued responsible Democrats for a looming authorities shutdown. A reminder that lawmakers have but to cross a decision to maintain the federal government funded past 30 September. At this time, the president held up his facet of the blame recreation, telling reporters: “These persons are loopy, the Democrats. So if it has to close down, it’ll must shut down, however they’re those which can be shutting down.” For his or her half, Home Democrats will meet nearly at the moment for a caucus assembly, as they refuse to again any funding invoice with out a number of well being care provisions.
Democrats on the Home judiciary committee are asking its Republican chief to permit victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to testify about “the institutional failures that enabled these horrific crimes”. The letter, signed by 17 Democrats and led by rating member Jamie Raskin and congresswoman Deborah Ross, a frontrunner within the Democratic Ladies’s caucus and longtime champion of sexual violence survivors, comes amid continued strain for the Trump administration to authorize the discharge of extra information associated to the disgraced financier.
Congressman Raskin stated that the indictment of James Comey is as a result of the justice division is in “full cover-up mode” over the Epstein information. In an interview with CNN, the Democrat from Maryland referred to as the prosecution an instance of the “full politicization of the Division of Justice”. He added: “We’re within the midst of making an attempt to get this info with apparently actual crimes. And we’ve obtained a robust, bipartisan majority saying, ‘Cease the cover-up of the Epstein information. Simply go forward and launch them.’”
An federal immigration officer has been “relieved of his duties” after a video displaying him pushing a girl to the ground at an immigration court docket in New York Metropolis unfold rapidly on social media. Tricia McLaughlin, a Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson, stated that the agent’s actions had been “unacceptable and beneath the women and men of Ice”. McLaughlin added that the officer is “being relieved of present duties as we conduct a full investigation”.
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An Arizona Republican state consultant who has expressed assist for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday referred to as for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.
The touch upon X by state consultant John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a response to a brief clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US consultant Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, titled The Resistance Lab. Within the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for avenue protests towards the Trump administration.
“Till folks like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American authorities are tried, convicted and hanged … it can proceed,” he posted.
Nothing in both the clip or the longer video really suggests Jayapal is advocating for the overthrow of the US authorities. The video carries express requires non-violent protest and mentioned with alarm an increase in political violence within the US.
Gillette’s remark is a continuation of a string of inflammatory far-right on-line invective by the Mohave county Republican and retired military reserve command sergeant main. Gillette has defended January 6 protesters, who had been intent on violently overturning Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden within the 2020 presidential election, as “political prisoners” and described Muslims as “terrorists”.
It additionally displays a widening name amongst Republicans to criminalize protest and speech vital of the Trump administration.
Gillette has not but responded to a request from the Guardian for remark.
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Ice agent ‘relieved of duties’ after extensively circulated video reveals him pushing a girl to the ground
An federal immigration officer has been “relieved of his duties” after a video displaying him pushing a girl to the ground at an immigration court docket in New York Metropolis unfold rapidly on social media.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson, stated that the agent’s actions had been “unacceptable and beneath the women and men of Ice”.
“This officer is being relieved of present duties as we conduct a full investigation,” McLaughlin added.
The video reveals a girl, and a younger lady who seems to be her daughter, pleading to officers to not take away her husband at 26 Federal Plaza. Within the video, they’re crying as officers take him into custody. ProPublica recognized the girl as Monica Moreta-Galarza, from Ecuador.
The video captures Moreta-Galarza pleading with the now-suspended officer. He tries to dismiss her by saying “adios”. When Moreta-Galarza touches his shoulder, he grabs her, pushes her throughout the hallway, towards the wall, and on to the ground.
The spouse of the detained man from Ecuador pleads with a federal agent for her husband, earlier than being assaulted. {Photograph}: Stephanie Keith/Getty Photos
After the incident, Democratic congressman Dan Goldman, of New York, stated that Moreta-Galarza “fled” to his workplace along with her two younger youngsters. ProPublica additionally reported that Moreta-Galarza was later taken to hospital after being pushed to the bottom.
I’m Until Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the previous 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the identical NY immigration courthouse.
Almost each time, I see ICE brokers arresting immigrants. At this time, a girl was slammed to the bottom after begging officers to not take her husband away.
Thread👇 pic.twitter.com/elTzcoskS9
— ProPublica (@propublica) September 26, 2025Share
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Forward of Home Democrats’ assembly at the moment, as a authorities shutdown looms, Donald Trump continued responsible lawmakers throughout the aisle for any lapse in authorities funding earlier at the moment.
“These persons are loopy, the Democrats. So if it has to close down, it’ll must shut down, however they’re those which can be shutting down,” the president stated.
A reminder that Congress is in recess this week, and solely the Senate is about to return on Monday – earlier than funding expires at midnight on 30 September. A unbroken decision to maintain the federal government open stalled within the higher chamber final week.
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DoJ is in ‘full cover-up mode’, says prime Home Democrat on judiciary committee following Comey indictment
Per my colleague Chris Stein’s reporting earlier, that Democrats on the Home judiciary committee are calling Republican management to permit survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to testify, congressman Jamie Raskin – the committee’s rating member – stated that the indictment of James Comey is as a result of the justice division is in “full cover-up mode”.
“They’re doing the bidding of President Trump with respect to Mr Comey, they’re doing the bidding of President Trump with respect to overlaying up circumstances,” Raskin stated in an interview with CNN Information Central.
He added:
What we see is the entire politicization of the Division of Justice. However we’re within the midst of making an attempt to get this info with apparently actual crimes. And we’ve obtained a robust, bipartisan majority saying, ‘Cease the cover-up of the Epstein information. Simply go forward and launch them.’”
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‘Harmful abuse of energy’: lawmakers sound alarm over Comey indictment
Chris Stein
For Donald Trump, the indictment of former FBI director and longtime foe James Comey was “justice in America”. Authorized observers and lawmakers see one thing way more troubling.
A former Republican appointed to guide the bureau by Barack Obama and stored on by Trump till he was fired in 2017, Comey was indicted Thursday on fees associated to allegedly mendacity to Congress 5 years in the past throughout a listening to on the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s meddling within the 2016 election.
The costs had been filed within the japanese district of Virginia solely after Erik Siebert was pressured out as US legal professional for reportedly discovering no grounds to indict Comey. The justice division changed him with Trump loyalist with little prosecutorial expertise, Lindsey Halligan, and shortly after, a grand jury indicted Comey on one rely of constructing a false assertion to Congress and one rely of obstruction of a congressional continuing.
The indictment is the newest signal that the president is making good on his promise “to show our justice system right into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics”, stated Mark Warner of Virginia, the highest Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.
“This type of interference is a harmful abuse of energy. Our system depends upon prosecutors making selections based mostly on proof and the regulation, not on the private grudges of a politician decided to settle scores,” Warner stated.
Democratic senator Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor who performed a lead position in Trump’s first impeachment, stated on X he had “by no means witnessed such a blatant abuse of the” justice division, calling it “little greater than an arm of the president’s retribution marketing campaign”.
Mike Zamore, nationwide director of coverage and authorities affairs on the American Civil Liberties Union, stated Trump “has but once more confirmed his disdain for the ideas which have really made America nice”.
Learn the remainder of Chris’s piece right here:
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Bryan Graham at Bethpage Black
Donald Trump’s arrival dominated the opening day of the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, about 37 miles south-east of Manhattan, the place followers had begun lining up exterior the gates as early as 3am.
Helicopters circled always overhead, whereas spectators navigated TSA-style checkpoints and Secret Service patrols round the principle grandstand.
Shortly after 11am, Air Power One made a low, shut flyover of the grounds because it approached Farmingdale, drawing gasps from the group and reminding everybody of the president’s imminent look.
Officers had urged spectators to finances further time, cautious of the type of disruption seen on the US Open tennis event earlier this month, when Trump’s go to delayed entry and 1000’s of spectators missed the beginning of the boys’s ultimate between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! The gang on the Ryder Cup went WILD when President Trump did a flyover on Air Power One
And that is in NEW YORK!
“USA! USA!”
47 will probably be on the bottom shortly! pic.twitter.com/Oh9NogzFoV
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 26, 2025
At Bethpage, Trump’s presence was no much less inescapable. The early carnival environment – followers chanting “U-S-A” because the American pair of Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas received the opening gap – rapidly dulled as Europe seized management.
By noon, the game itself had receded. What lingered was the sound of choppers, the roar of Air Power One overhead, and the heavy safety presence behind the 18th inexperienced and close to the primary tee that turned golf’s biennial matchplay carnival right into a backdrop for presidential theatre.
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Responding to James Comey’s indictment final evening, Matthew Miller, who was the director of public affairs on the justice division through the Obama administration, wrote on X:
The Justice Division we’ve lengthy recognized is useless. As in lots of authoritarian states, it now exists as an arm of the federal government to punish the president’s enemies, whatever the regulation. A tragedy for the nation with lasting implications, even when this case is dismissed.
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The chair of the Home choose committee on China has stated he’ll conduct full oversight over a deal for Chinese language-based ByteDance to promote the US property of TikTok that was permitted by Donald Trump underneath a 2024 regulation.
“The regulation additionally set agency guardrails that prohibit cooperation between ByteDance and any potential TikTok successor on the all-important advice algorithm, in addition to preclude operational ties between the brand new entity and ByteDance,” stated the Republican consultant John Moolenaar.
He stated he would host the management of the brand new TikTok entity at a listening to subsequent 12 months.
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Immigrants with no legal file now largest group in Ice detention
José Olivares
Immigrants with no legal file are actually the most important group in US immigration detention, in line with information launched by the federal government. The variety of folks with no legal historical past arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and detained by the Trump administration has now surpassed the variety of these charged with crimes.
Ice, the federal company most closely relied upon by Donald Trump to hold out his mass deportation marketing campaign, launched its newest numbers on Thursday.
In accordance with the official information, 16,523 folks in immigration detention with no legal file had been arrested by Ice, in contrast with 15,725 who do have a legal file and 13,767 with pending legal fees.
There are actually a complete of 59,762 folks in Ice detention throughout the US. The remaining variety of folks in Ice custody had been introduced in by border officers.
The numbers launched by Ice mark the primary time underneath the second Trump administration that the entire variety of immigrants with no legal historical past in detention has surpassed that of individuals convicted of a criminal offense or with pending fees.
The company’s information additionally contradicts Trump administration officers’ repeated narrative that the chief focus of the White Home’s agenda and the Division of Homeland Safety dragnet is harmful criminals.
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Comey’s son-in-law resigns as federal prosecutor – studies
James Comey’s son-in-law, Troy Edwards, has resigned as a federal prosecutor for the japanese district of Virginia, following his father-in-law’s indictment.
In accordance with his resignation letter, seen by a number of retailers, Edwards despatched his resignation discover to Lindsey Halligan – the newly minted US legal professional for the district – and wrote that he was quitting “to uphold my oath to the structure and the nation”.
A reminder that Halligan was appointed after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert, after Siebert stated there was inadequate proof to prosecute Comey and different Trump adversaries.
Edwards was on the workforce of attorneys who charged contributors within the January 6 assault on the US capitol.
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