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Tag Archives: Justice Department

Shocker: Jan. 5 pipe bomber believed 2020 presidential election was stolen

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Trump administration officials hyped the arrest of a Northern Virginia man in the Jan. 5, 2021, DC pipe bombs case on Thursday, while also shading Team Biden for supposedly sitting on the evidence that led to the breakthrough.

Posted byChris GrahamDecember 7, 2025December 7, 2025Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: FBI, Jan. 6, Justice Department

Former Virginia Beach man gets five years for threatening to kill Biden, Harris

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The Trump DOJ actually followed through with the case of a former Virginia Beach man who threatened to kill Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – which, yeah, shocker.

Posted byChris GrahamNovember 21, 2025Posted inVirginiaTags: Joe Biden, Justice Department, Kamala Harris

Developing: ‘Sandwich Guy’ found not guilty, won’t have to toss salads

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“Sandwich Guy,” the paralegal who the Trumpers wanted to charge with a felony for throwing a Subway sandwich at a Border Patrol agent, was found not guilty on a misdemeanor charge by a Washington, D.C., jury on Thursday.

Posted byChris GrahamNovember 6, 2025December 7, 2025Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: Justice Department

UVA bends the knee on DEI to get the Trump Justice Department off its back

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The University of Virginia is trying to claim victory in the matter of the five sham Justice Department investigations into the school’s DEI policies.

Posted byChris GrahamOctober 22, 2025October 25, 2025Posted inLocal NewsTags: DEI, Justice Department, University of Virginia

Virginia grand jury returns questionable indictment against former FBI Director Comey

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The insurance lawyer installed by Donald Trump as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has done the one job she was put there to do – secure an indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

Posted byChris GrahamSeptember 25, 2025October 21, 2025Posted inVirginiaTags: Don Beyer, Donald Trump, FBI, Justice Department, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine

Trump DOJ targets George Mason over its ineffective diversity program

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George Mason, which named its law school after Antonin Scalia, which gets millions from the likes of Charles Koch, is facing a civil rights investigation from the Trump Justice Department.

Posted byChris GrahamJuly 20, 2025December 7, 2025Posted inPolitics, U.S. & World, VirginiaTags: DEI, George Mason, Harmeet Dhillon, Justice Department

Trump, comically, tries to pin Epstein files on Comey, Obama, ‘the Biden’

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Turns out, the “raw video” of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell released by the Justice Department last week was heavily edited, and missing nearly three minutes of real time.

Posted byChris GrahamJuly 15, 2025Posted inPoliticsTags: Donald Trump, FBI, Jeffrey Epstein, Justice Department

‘What American justice looks like”: The torture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Pam Bondi, officially the U.S. attorney general, though she considers herself part of the personal legal team of Donald Trump, has tried to say that the way her office has handled the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “what American justice looks like.”

Posted byChris GrahamJuly 3, 2025December 7, 2025Posted inPolitics, U.S. & WorldTags: ICE, Justice Department, Kilmar Abrego Garcia

UVA President Jim Ryan resigns: Making sense of something that doesn’t make sense

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I can’t explain this one – Jim Ryan deciding to step down as the president of the University of Virginia, in the face of what felt like token pressure from the Trump Department of Justice.

Posted byChris GrahamJune 27, 2025October 21, 2025Posted inVirginiaTags: DEI, Harmeet Dhillon, Jim Ryan, Justice Department, University of Virginia, UVA Board of Visitors, Virginia Politics

Update: Trump DOJ pressuring UVA President Jim Ryan to resign

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The Trump Department of Justice has been scheming behind the scenes to pressure UVA President Jim Ryan to resign, citing what officials there believe is Ryan’s slow walking of the dissolution of the school’s DEI programs.

Posted byChris GrahamJune 27, 2025October 21, 2025Posted inVirginiaTags: DEI, Harmeet Dhillon, Jim Ryan, Justice Department, Stephen Miller, University of Virginia, UVA Board of Visitors, Virginia Politics

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