District attorney challenges new Georgia law that removes party labels in Atlanta-area elections

ATLANTA — A Georgia district attorney said she is challenging the constitutionality of a law that requires nonpartisan elections for most local officials in the five most populous counties in the Atlanta area but not in the rest of the state. DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston — flanked by Fulton County District Attorney Fani … Read more

Justice Dept. says it has obtained superseding indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center with new details on donor funds

The Justice Department said Tuesday it obtained a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center that contained new allegations about how its donations were purportedly used to pay informants inside hate groups. The superseding indictment, which the DOJ said was returned by a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama, alleges that $4.1 … Read more

Trump flips script on left, maneuvers to use foreign influence law against the them

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump is turning foreign-influence laws that once ensnared figures in his own orbit toward left-wing activist networks accused of benefiting from overseas money and support. Once seldom enforced criminally, FARA and related foreign-agent laws became a more prominent DOJ enforcement tool after 2016, including in … Read more

No tax charges filed in Southern Poverty Law Center probe, after IRS lawyers determined informant program legally structured, sources say

Federal agents previously investigated the Southern Poverty Law Center’s paid informant program for possible tax crimes, but the probe failed to yield any charges after Internal Revenue Service lawyers determined it was legally structured, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Agents from IRS Criminal Investigation in 2019 and 2020 homed in on shell … Read more

ACLU hit with foreign money complaint as new election law faces major test

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Americans for Public Trust, a conservative watchdog organization, filed a complaint with the Missouri Attorney General asking the state to investigate whether the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Stop the Ban violated Missouri’s foreign-influence ballot-measure law, Fox News Digital has learned. The Switzerland-based … Read more

New York sheriffs ‘mad as hell’ as Hochul pushes to ban key law enforcement partnership

Anti-ICE protests outside New Jersey facility spark debate over immigration policy Fox News covers ongoing anti-ICE protests in Newark, New Jersey, where demonstrators clash with agents and block roads, demanding the closure of a detention facility and the unconditional release of all detainees. Podcast host Ben Ferguson critiques the Democratic Party’s alignment with these demands, … Read more

Southern Poverty Law Center seeks dismissal of criminal charges, saying prosecution is vindictive

Washington — The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal charges filed against it by the Justice Department, saying the indictment represents a “top-down, retributive campaign” directed by President Trump to target his enemies. The 47-page filing in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama … Read more

‘Moderate’ Dem’s unearthed ‘deconstruct’ law enforcement comments draw fire from GOP critics

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Vulnerable border Democrat Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., is being slammed for “hypocrisy” on his pro-law enforcement stance after a Black Lives Matter post and interview calling to “deconstruct” and “defund” the police resurfaced. Vasquez, who is widely reported as a “moderate Democrat” and is … Read more

Judge orders White House staff to comply with presidential records law that DOJ calls unconstitutional

Washington — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered White House staff and President Trump’s top advisers to comply with a law that requires certain presidential records to be preserved. In a 54-page decision, U.S. District Judge John Bates granted a preliminary injunction that requires most White House employees to preserve presidential and vice presidential records covered … Read more