Senators’ half-a-million-dollar surveillance payday exposes flawed privacy laws
When senators discovered they had been subjected to unconstitutional surveillance, they voted themselves half a million dollars each. The rest of us got nothing. Last month, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed that President Joe Biden’s FBI had spied on eight Republican senators’ phones. Former Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith, investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, secretly monitored who contacted the senators, […]
FBI document reveals spying on US Senate Republicans
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On October 6, 2025, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released a declassified FBI document dated September 27, 2023, showing that FBI agents conducted a preliminary “analysis” of cellphone toll records for a total of nine Republican lawmakers, including himself, in connection with an inquiry into potential efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. “I […]
Classified document case against Trump dismissed
MIAMI, Fla.—U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday, July 15, dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald J Trump stating that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional. “The Court is convinced that Special Counsel’s Smith’s prosecution of this action breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme—the role of Congress in the appointment of […]
Trump fined $355 million and barred from conducting business in New York, Judge rules
NEW YORK CITY—Donald J Trump, his sons, business associates, and company was fined $355 million and barred from conducting business in New York for three years judge rules on Friday, February 16, in a civil business trial that spanned from October of 2023, through January of 2024. The ruling also restricts the 45th President of […]
The latest Trump indictment: What you need to know
MIAMI, Fla., June 11, 2023—The 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday, June 13, to be arraigned on 37 criminal counts, 31 of which are for allegedly violating the Espionage Act of 1917. The indictment is related to the unprecedented Federal Bureau […]
Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago, ‘There is no case, there is no case!’
PALM BEACH, Fla., April 5, 2023—To a crowd of approximately 500 loyal supporters at his Mar-a-Lago home, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump, delivered a 25-minute response to his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment that took place earlier Tuesday afternoon. Trump accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of illegally leaking the content […]
