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Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, resigned Thursday, the first senior official to step down after Democrats’ midterm sweep.
A federal magistrate judge dismissed the criminal case against two former FBI counterintelligence officials charged with lying to Congress about the bureau’s Hunter Biden laptop investigation, citing no probable cause and questioning the timing of the charges days before the midterms.
The Supreme Court refused without explanation to intervene in the Trump administration’s emergency request to force California to set aside mail ballots from 20,000 voters it alleges are likely noncitizens.
A federal judge in Alaska dismissed the Justice Department’s attempt to block certification of the state’s Senate race over a lookalike candidate on the ballot, the latest setback to the administration’s election litigation.
Federal prosecutors issued dozens of subpoenas and asked a court to segregate ballots in Alaska’s Senate race after reports that Democratic operatives recruited a candidate sharing the incumbent Republican senator’s name.
A California federal judge issued a restraining order late Friday stopping the Justice Department from threatening election officials with criminal prosecution or demanding that they segregate ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
A federal judge denied the Justice Department a restraining order to stop Los Angeles County from counting about 20,000 ballots federal officials link to suspected non-citizens, calling the request unprecedented. The department will appeal.
A Washington federal grand jury refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, former White House aide whose 2022 testimony about Jan. 6 drew Trump allies’ ire, a rebuff to the Justice Department’s effort to prosecute her.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Maurene Comey, a decade-long assistant US attorney in Manhattan and daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawfully fired in July 2025, ordering retroactive reinstatement and back pay.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Trump administration’s emergency appeal on Monday, declining to force California to set aside mail ballots associated with more than 20,000 people the government suspects are noncitizens.
The Justice Department charged former FBI Director James Comey on Monday with transmitting national defense information and conspiracy, the third prosecution brought against him by the Trump administration.
Federal prosecutors sent letters to county registrars across California demanding they identify and set aside ballots that may belong to noncitizen voters within 48 hours, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s election litigation before the midterms.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, former leaders of the FBI’s disbanded Foreign Influence Task Force, were taken into custody and charged with making false statements to Congress about their roles in the agency’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The Justice Department sued Alaska’s election officials to block certification of the state’s Senate race unless Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan prevails, a suit President Trump said Friday he directed, drawing scepticism from election-law experts.
