Trump Administration Live Updates: Bondi Vows to Appeal Dismissal of Comey and James Cases
Where Things Stand
"Comey and James: Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday that the Justice Department would take “all available legal action, including an immediate appeal,” after a federal judge tossed out separate criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, two of President Trump’s perceived foes. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie said the loyalist prosecutor installed by Mr. Trump to bring the cases was appointed to her position unlawfully. Read more ›
Ukraine talks: The U.S. Army secretary, Daniel P. Driscoll, met with a Russian delegation in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday about Mr. Trump’s latest plan for peace in Ukraine, a spokesman for Mr. Driscoll said. “The talks are going well, and we remain optimistic,” said the spokesman, Lt. Col. Jeff Tolbert. The meetings are the latest turn in the Trump administration’s push to end the war. Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, early Tuesday, killing at least six people, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
Senator investigation: The Pentagon said on Monday that it was investigating Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, after he appeared in a video reminding military personnel to refuse illegal orders. The video enraged Mr. Trump, who accused Mr. Kelly and five other Democrats who appeared in the video of sedition. Read more ›
A former Justice Department lawyer who spoke out publicly about the Trump administration’s aggressive maneuvers to deport migrants has joined one of the legal advocacy firms challenging the administration’s approaches to immigration, benefits for the poor and civil rights.
In an interview with The New York Times, Erez Reuveni said he decided to work for the group Democracy Forward because “this is really a make-or-break moment for the rule of law, for democracy, for the rights of all people who live in this country.”
The U.S. Army secretary, Daniel P. Driscoll, met with a Russian delegation on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates to discuss President Trump’s latest plan for peace in Ukraine, a spokesman for Mr. Driscoll said.
The conversations, which took place in Abu Dhabi, the capital, are the latest turn in the Trump administration’s flurry of new meetings aimed at ending Russia’s four years of war in Ukraine.
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to bolster national scientific research through the use of artificial intelligence.
The initiative, called the Genesis Mission, “will build an integrated A.I. platform to harness federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of federal investments — to train scientific foundation models and create A.I. agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs,” according to the order.
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that took a step toward designating parts of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terror organizations, which would impose broad travel and economic restrictions, resuming an effort he began during his first term.
The executive order took no immediate action against the targeted chapters, and the full scope of the order was unclear. Mr. Trump instead directed cabinet officials to submit a report and then “take all appropriate action” against parts of the influential Islamist political movement, including against branches located in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.
A federal judge on Monday tossed out separate criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, saying the loyalist prosecutor installed by President Trump to bring the cases was put into her job unlawfully.
The twin rulings, by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, were the most significant setback yet to the president’s efforts to force the criminal justice system to punish his perceived foes. The case dismissals also served as a rebuke to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who had rushed to carry out Mr. Trump’s orders to appoint the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia."
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