Yates was dismissed for refusing to defend President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban days after he was inaugurated.
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Homeland Security gathered intelligence on journalists covering Portland protests
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf ordered an investigation into agency’s intelligence unit which assembled reports on journalists in Portland.
DHS team deployed to Seattle; unit on standby in case of new unrest in city
Department of Homeland Security tactical team deployed to Seattle. The unit is on standby in case of new unrest.
Federal appeals court puts hold on first federal executions in 17 years; legal battle to continue
Appeals court puts hold on first federal executions in 17 years, as Daniel Lewis Lee was set to die for killing a family.
Federal appeals court, calling COVID-19 threat ‘frivolous,’ rules to allow first federal execution in 17 years
A federal appeals court ruled the first federal execution in 17 years should go forward Monday, overturning an injunction to spare Daniel Lewis Lee.
Former Russia special counsel Robert Mueller defends Roger Stone prosecution in wake of Trump commutation
Robert Mueller challenges President Trump: Roger Stone was ‘prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes.’
Citing COVID threat, judge blocks first federal execution in 17 years; sides with victims’ family
A judge delayed the first federal execution in 17 years, a resurgence of the deadly coronavirus and the risk it poses to witnesses.
‘Ghislaine Maxwell is not Epstein’: Attorneys argue for bail ahead of detention hearing, cite COVID threat
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys seek bail; cite virus threat and distance socialite from Jeffrey Epstein
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in custody in dispute over release conditions
President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is back in federal custody in an apparent dispute over conditions of his early prison release.
Feds arrest Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of recruiting child sex victims
A federal grand jury indicted Maxwell on conspiracy charges that accuse her of “helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims” between 1994 and 1997.