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Three House committees are banding together to subpoena Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue on Tuesday, accusing the platform of having accepted "fraudulent or illegal" donations for left-wing candidates.
Former special counsel David Weiss got little support from the Department of Justice (DOJ) when he sought lawyers to help prosecute President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, Weiss told Congress during a recent closed-door interview.
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed a former Pfizer executive who is considered central to its investigation into an allegation that clinical testing related to the development of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine was purposefully delayed until after the 2020 presidential election, according to documents obtained by CNN Monday.
The House Judiciary Committee is asking the president of Brown University to hand over all internal memos related to a student who sent a DOGE-style email who subsequently faced disciplinary hearings and had his private information leaked.
The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether an activist organization with ties to the Democratic Party that received nearly $1 million in grants under the Biden administration used the funds to foment the anti-ICE riots that ripped through Los Angeles earlier this month.
Lawmakers are investigating whether Pfizer waited to share results of the Covid vaccine in 2020 until after that year’s presidential election, based on new allegations that a former Pfizer scientist has said he was part of an effort to “deliberately slow down” the testing, according to a new letter from the House Judiciary Committee.
Washington can no longer ignore the political repression under Donald Tusk-led Polish government, nor the EU’s censorship rules that threaten free speech both in Poland and the U.S.
Jim Jordan, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives, along with four other congressmen, has sent a letter to Michael McGrath, the EU Commissioner for Justice and Rule of Law, to condemn these practices and demand urgent action from Brussels.
Three members Congress sent a joint letter to the Judicial Conference signaling they are considering judicial “reforms” in response to outrageous behavior in a case challenging one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration. An attorney personally phoned a judge asking for his favor, then tried to assert a timeline for the case.
“The Committee has jurisdiction over federal courts and judicial proceedings,” the letter reads. “Pursuant to this authority, the Committee is considering potential legislative reforms to judicial proceedings.”
Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has repeatedly been assigned cases to do with President Donald Trump's second term, as Townhall has been covering. Congress has taken notice, and the House last month passed a bill to rein in rogue judges like Boasberg and others. Questions still remain, though, and on Monday, Townhall obtained a letter from Reps.
Contractors for the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue have been summoned to appear before Congress amid a sweeping probe into potentially fraudulent — and even foreign-sourced — donations during the 2024 election, according to a pair of letters exclusively obtained by The Post.