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Posted Feb 15, 2022, 4:32 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
2 Arizona Republicans are among 6 people issued subpoenas Tuesday by the House Jan. 6 Committee, with state Rep. Mark Finchem and state GOP Chair Kelli Ward told to turn over documents and appear for depositions next month.... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2022, 6:45 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night denied a last-ditch attempt from former President Donald Trump as he sought to keep his White House records out of the hands of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 31, 2021, 8:44 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
Representative Bennie Thompson and the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny a last-ditch effort from former President Donald Trump to block congressional oversight of his records from the day. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 19, 2021, 5:33 am
Samantha Hawkins
/Courthouse News
Former President Donald Trump sued the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives on Monday, claiming that the committee’s request for records surrounding the failed insurrection is overly broad and illegal. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 24, 2021, 2:38 pm
Joshua Kaplan & Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica
The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 issued subpoenas on Thursday to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and three other allies of former President Donald Trump.... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2020, 1:21 pm
Robert Moore
/Special to ProPublica
Video contradicted the Border Patrol’s account of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez’s death. Now, House Democrats are pressuring the agency to explain why six migrant children died under its care in less than a year.... Read more»
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Posted Apr 10, 2019, 12:03 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
In one of her last acts in office, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Wednesday that Ronald Vitiello, the acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is also leaving the agency. ... Read more»
Posted May 8, 2014, 10:02 am
Whitney Ogden
/Cronkite News Service
Government seizures of assets exceeded $1.7 billion in 2013, a nearly seven-fold increase in the Treasury Forfeiture Fund over a span of 10 years, according to a recent federal audit.... Read more»