July 6, 2018
Mueller Wants Manafort to Remain Behind Bars
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Mueller’s team wants Paul Manafort to remain behind bars. Manafort’s lawyers want him released so he can help better prepare for trial, CNN reports. Prosecutors argue that Manafort’s attempts to contact potential witnesses in his case and influence their testimony are dangerous, the prosecutors argued. Witness tampering “is no less damaging…
Rod Rosenstein Losing His Right Hand Man, Scott Schools
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Another key figure in the Department of Justice is leaving. Scott Schools, the senior-most career attorney and a top aide to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, will step down to take a job in the private sector, the department announced this week, according to Business Insider. Schools is Rosenstein’s main adviser. Before Rosenstein,…
Federal Judge Mostly Rejects Justice Department’s Bid to Block California’s Sanctuary Laws
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Trump administration has been continually fighting the concept of sanctuary cities. But the judiciary has not always been helpful in that battle. The latest: A federal judge on Thursday mostly rejected a bid by the Justice Department to block California’s “sanctuary state” laws, which enact policies friendly to undocumented immigrants,…