The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted.
His demand came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of his most-reviled adversaries, Letitia James and James B. Comey.
President Trump’s campaign against U.S. attorneys is an extension, even an escalation, of the early purge that his top political appointees carried out at the Justice Department.
Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
The push to remove Erik S. Siebert, a highly regarded career prosecutor, came as a shock in an office that handles some of the nation’s most sensitive national security investigations.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say.
President Trump speaking to members of the media this week. In his inauguration speech, he vowed to “immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.”
“Speech is powerful,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in 2011. “It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and inflict great pain.”
The attorney general also said she could investigate businesses that refused to print Charlie Kirk vigil posters as the Trump administration pushes to punish anyone who celebrated his killing.
Attorney General Pam Bondi later appeared to back away from a broad interpretation of her remarks on “hate speech,” which had raised free speech concerns.
A conviction would make the man, who is accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee on a light rail train in Charlotte, eligible for the federal death penalty.
Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, introduced a discharge petition last week to bring the bill calling for the release of the Epstein files to a vote on the House floor.
In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states.
Poll workers at a Las Vegas voting site in November. A Justice Department official said all 50 states would eventually receive requests for voter roll data, according to notes of a meeting.
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