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UCLA Law Discriminated Against White And Asian Students, DOJ Says

A Department of Justice investigation found that the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law has illegally discriminated based on race in admissions, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is alleging that UCLA Law discriminated against white and Asian students in granting admission to its 2023, 2024 and 2025 incoming classes. UCLA Law’s alleged discriminatory conduct violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and also the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which prohibited racial discrimination in admissions, according to the Department.

“Like many of its peer institutions, UCLA Law School runs a two-tiered admissions system whose academic bar for acceptance shifts up or down depending on the color of your skin,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told the DCNF in a statement. “The use of race as a thumb on the scale that helps or disadvantages any student is illegal.”

“The Department will continue to enforce equal treatment under the law everywhere — including in our nation’s law schools,” Dhillon continued.

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Trump DOJ Announces More Indictments, Guilty Pleas For Voter Fraud While Democrats Insist ‘There’s No Fraud’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week the indictments of ten aliens for voter fraud in Minnesota alone, as well as charges and guilty pleas involving 12 individuals – including three illegal aliens – for election crimes throughout the nation.

According to a DOJ announcement released Wednesday, the ten defendants in Minnesota were found by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to have voted illegally in the November 2022 and 2024 general elections, and the August 2026 primary election. A federal grand jury indicted them separately on September 24 for voter fraud, and all ten have made their initial appearances in federal court.

Details about the defendants can be found here at the DOJ website.

The announcement about the indictments for voter fraud in Minnesota came Monday after the department revealed charges and guilty pleas in the cases of 12 individuals – including three illegal aliens – related to “illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes across the country,” including in Florida, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Hawaii, and Utah, the DOJ reported.

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen spoke during a press conference Wednesday about the indictments for voter fraud.

“[E]very voter that votes should know that their vote counts,” Mullin said. “It shouldn’t be canceled by an illegal or someone illegally voting in those elections, and that’s exactly what happens. The only people that should be choosing our leaders are American citizens that are legally able to vote.”

Mullin said the investigations into voter fraud are increasing rapidly.

“When we start talking about cases – yes, we just made 10 – I think we just had 10 convictions,” he said. “We have 100 administrative arrests, 53 criminal arrests, 37 indictments, and 10 convictions – and we’re just getting started. We have over 1,600 voter fraud cases that we are currently investigating, and we have 300,000 more that we’re getting to.”

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DOJ Files Charges Against Minnesota Judges Who Launched ‘Unethical Partisan Press Tour’ to Attack Trump’s Immigration Agenda

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally filed a misconduct complaint against the Minnesota federal judges who admitted to the New York Times that they are using their power as judges to obstruct the Trump administration’s agenda.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter told followers on X that the DOJ is targeting the judges for engaging in an “unethical partisan press tour on immigration cases.”

“Judges who covet publicity undermine public confidence in the rule of law,” McCotter added.

Attorney General Todd Blanche blasted the clearly biased judges, saying that the U.S. government has a right, “just like every litigant in court, to have a judge that will be fair and impartial,” Blanche said. “We have no choice but to act.”

The complaint comes after the New York Times published a story early in September featuring Judge Patrick Schiltz and five of the seven judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit who spoke to the paper to reveal their experiences over the president’s crack down on illegal immigration.

The judicial misconduct complaint names Judge Schiltz, who was appointed to the bench by George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton-appointed Judge John Tunheim, both of whom have openly criticized Trump’s immigration policies.

Tunheim, for instance, told the Times that ICE was not arresting the right migrants, and said, “They weren’t arresting, in my view, people who were dangerous criminals on the street.”

The DOJ, though, says the judges’ public conduct “is particularly egregious” and that they “flagrantly violated the Code of Judicial Conduct with their improper and unethical comments.”

The complaint added that Schiltz’s comments were “overly political and concern matters that are pending” before the court, and that Tunheim’s comment was “less verbose” but “equally unethical.”

“If anything is a ‘grave threat to the rule of law,’ it is judges who repeatedly and brazenly exceed their authority then launch a partisan press campaign that includes criticizing the government for filing an emergency appeal when a judge refused to rule on a search warrant application,” McCotter said.

The DOJ is requesting that the court order both judges to recuse themselves from cases involving DHS and its departments, including ICE. The complaint also wants an investigation into “improper conduct” of the Minnesota judges who “‘covet publicity” rather than adhering to the rule of law by adjudicating cases or controversies.

Schiltz has already issued a statement proclaiming his innocence. “As legal-ethics experts have confirmed, I was acting well within the ethical rules that apply to federal judges in speaking to the New York Times,” he said, and citing the Judicial Conference guidelines for what judges can say in public, he added, “that is exactly what I did.”

The 8th Circuit Court also averred that the judges who spoke to the Times acted “well within” the ethics rules.

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Feds arrest, indict hundreds in Trump voter fraud crackdown: ‘Catching it all over the country’

Since the Trump Justice Department warned state and local election officials that they could be charged with allowing fraudulent voting activities, more than 200 arrests and indictments have been secured in a crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting, and that number could double soon, a top official revealed to Just the News.

“I think there are a lot of nervous election officials because I think some of them know that they’ve been looking the other way when this is happening, and we’re catching it all over the country,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday night in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.

Dhillon also hinted at further developments in the coming weeks, suggesting her department has developed evidence calling into question New Jersey’s claim that a computer glitch allowed thousands of foreigners to register to vote in that state and about 400 to actually cast ballots in violation of law.

“I’m not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey. They’re not really cooperating with us, and so we will get to the bottom of what happened there. And you know, New Jersey tried to blame a vendor for a mistake or a glitch, quote unquote. But you know, I think there’ll be another side to that story,” she said.

The software vendor Dhillon referred to is IDEMIA, which told Just the News in July that it was the responsibility of New Jersey officials to verify voter registration.

“IDEMIA works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and has for more than 40 years, to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver’s license or state-issued identification card. IDEMIA’s role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system,” IDEMIA said in that statement.

“The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.”

Dhillon further stated that in the past several weeks, her office has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election-related crimes, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made more than 160 arrests.

“What we care about is that noncitizens who voted in a federal election canceled out the votes of American citizens. It does happen. It happens a lot more than anybody says. It wasn’t being prosecuted under the Biden DOJ. In the four years of the Biden DOJ, they prosecuted a total of 13 people for election-related crimes, and we’ve done more than that in the last week here at DOJ,” she said.

The law enforcement crackdown was prompted by an initiative led by the Trump White House and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to forge an all-of-government approach to growing Americans’ trust in elections by punishing wrongdoers, cleaning voter rolls, and eliminating noncitizen voting, Just the News has learned. A small group from multiple federal agencies has met with Wiles weekly for months to coordinate the strategy.

Left-wing organizations, including the Brookings Institution, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the American Immigration Council, among others, have all claimed that noncitizen voting is either not happening or is incredibly rare.

Recent data suggests otherwise.

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New Report Confirms Jack Smith and Biden DOJ Coordinated to Spy on Their Political Opposition

A new report released by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan confirms Special Counsel Jack Smith coordinated with the Biden DOJ to spy on their political opposition.

Republicans released documents that revealed investigators improperly subpoenaed phone records that belonged to 44 GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.

Jack Smith’s team also secured gag orders to prevent the GOP lawmakers from learning that Biden’s DOJ obtained their phone records.

House Republicans also released transcripts from five members of Jack Smith’s team.

Transcript from J.P. Cooney, a member of Jack Smith’s team, once again confirm coordination between the special counsel and the Biden White House.

“During your time at the Special Counsel’s Office, did you ever interact with the White House?” the GOP investigator asked JP Cooney.

“I did have some interactions with a staff member in the White House Counsel’s Office,” JP Cooney replied.

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DOJ Announces Charges Against Utah Postal Worker For Trashing More Than 300 Mail-In Ballots

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced a postal worker was indicted for discarding more than 300 mail-in ballots in a dumpster.

A grand jury indicted 34-year-old Damon Matai Seei on September 16 on one count of Unlawful Secretion, Destruction, and Delay of Mail.

Seei was arraigned at a federal courthouse in Utah on Tuesday afternoon.

“[On] June 3, 2026, SEEI threw away some of the mail, which he had been entrusted to deliver, into a dumpster in a church parking lot. He later admitted in an interview that he threw away the mail because he wanted to “lighten his workload” so he could presumably go home earlier,” the Justice Department’s detention memo read.

“When American voters lawfully cast their vote, they should feel confident that it is counted,” said Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter.

He continued, “Allegedly throwing away hundreds of ballots is a serious federal crime that undermines the integrity of our elections. Ballot integrity is not a partisan issue.”

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DOJ Crackdown on Illegal Alien Voting Picks Up Steam with Charges Announced in Seven States

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has put illegal voters on notice with the 2026 midterms only weeks away, announcing charges against 16 people in multiple states for election crimes that include noncitizens casting ballots.

As one DOJ official put it, “American elections are for Americans.”

The charges, which include illegal voting, illegal voter registration, wire fraud, passport and identity fraud, and even firearm offenses were detailed in a lengthy DOJ release Friday.

It was followed by a warning on social media, with the DOJ writing, “If you are not allowed to vote in our elections, you shouldn’t. And if you do, that’s a CRIME. This isn’t a partisan issue!”

In addition to these charges, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche stepped up to a White House lectern on Tuesday and announced charges against 11 individuals for illegally voting or fraudulently registering in the 2022 and 2024 elections.

“We are seeing illegal aliens voting,” Blanche told reporters.

According to the DOJ release, eight noncitizens residing in Texas were charged, while the other cases involved defendants in Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan.

The cases are part of a Trump administration crackdown on threats to the integrity of the U.S. election system.

The examples in the DOJ statement were striking.

According to a Fox News summary:

In Georgia, DOJ said Analiea Milliscent Eccles, a Venezuelan national and DACA recipient, voted nine times between 2008 and 2024. She was charged with voting as a noncitizen and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to vote.

Avila Gomez, a Mexican national residing in Idaho, is accused of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register to vote and then voting in May 2022 and November 2024. The indictment also includes wire fraud, passport, identification-document and firearm-related charges.

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DOJ: Federal Ban On Sale Of Handguns To 18-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional

Eighteen-year-olds “may vote, serve on juries, be drafted, and face adult criminal penalties,” and now they can purchase handguns and handgun ammunition from a licensed firearm dealer without the dealer being prosecuted by the DOJ if they are otherwise eligible, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser announced in a statement Friday.

The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel found the federal prohibition on licensed dealers selling handguns and handgun ammunition to 18-20-year-olds is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and therefore cannot be criminally enforced by the Justice Department.

Since 1968 federal law has prohibited licensed dealers from selling handguns or handgun ammunition to individuals under the age of 21, thanks to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. At the time Congress said access to handguns was correlated to violent crime. The rule was again upheld in 2012 by the 5th Circuit.

In Reese v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, adult individuals under age 21 sued over this very rule. The 5th Circuit ultimately ruled that there is no historic tradition that could justify banning the sale of handguns and handgun ammunition to 18-20-year-olds, as required by the new Bruen test established by the Supreme Court. Notably, however, the 5th Circuit’s decision only covered a handful of states that fell within the 5th Circuit’s purview.

But now the DOJ will no longer prosecute licensed dealers in any state for selling a handgun to an 18-year-old who is otherwise qualified to purchase.

To be clear, the statute is still on the books, and Congress did not repeal it. But the DOJ says it will not seek criminal penalties against dealers who sell to law-abiding 18-20-year-olds.

“The Constitution protects the people’s right to keep and bear arms. The Department of Justice may not constitutionally seek to impose criminal penalties on dealers who sell handguns to law-abiding adults who, in nearly every other relevant respect, are members of the political community,” Gaiser said in a statement.

The DOJ said it “found no Founding era history or tradition of precluding legal adults from purchasing firearms to protect public safety. To the contrary, at the Founding, militia statutes overwhelmingly required service beginning at 18 and required enrollees to furnish their own arms.”

The opinion does not affect the enforcement of state laws that prohibit the sale of handguns to adults under 21.

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DOJ Sues San Jose, Alleging $1,600 Firearm Fee Is Unconstitutional

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of San Jose, California, alleging that its nearly $1,600 firearm licensing fee infringes the Second Amendment right to carry firearms for self-defense. The fee has risen by about $300 over three fiscal years to $1,591.

“San Jose is a national outlier when it comes to burdening the exercise of fundamental rights. Its fees are abusive and violate the Second Amendment,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in the Sept. 16 lawsuit.

The DOJ asked the court to issue permanent injunctive relief that would prevent defendants from imposing any “abusive licensing fees.” The San Jose Police Department is also a defendant in the case.

“The City’s law enforcement officers are charged with enforcing its abusive licensing scheme and are doing so. Such law enforcement misconduct is unlawful,” the DOJ added.

In Washington, the nation’s capital, a concealed carry license costs $75, while in New York, a handgun license costs $340. In Boston, the nonrenewable processing fee for a license to carry is $100. And in Philadelphia, a new license to carry firearms costs only $20.

Compared with other California locations, such as San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Clara, and Alameda County, San Jose’s fees are still high, the DOJ said in the complaint.

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FBI Foils ISIS-Inspired Mass-Shooting Plot in Butler County, Pennsylvania — Same County Where a Gunman Tried to Assassinate President Trump

An ISIS-inspired terror attack was reportedly stopped in Pennsylvania before innocent Americans could be harmed.

Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, of Valencia, Pennsylvania, was arrested by the FBI on September 12 after investigators allegedly caught him taking final steps toward a violent attack in support of ISIS.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Kramer by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition while knowing, or having reason to believe, they would be used to commit a felony or federal crime of terrorism.

According to federal authorities, Kramer operated online under the alias “Hamza Al Rashid.” Investigators say the account claimed affiliation with ISIS, offered to share explosive manuals, and discussed preparing for a “mission” while saying he was only missing a weapon.

The FBI had reportedly known Kramer since 2023, when he was a minor.

In 2023, while still a minor, he was investigated after using Telegram under names including “Nikolas Cruz” and “@ShootIntoACrowd.”

Agents searched his parents’ home and found a recording of him pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pennsylvania authorities adjudicated him delinquent for his role in a mass-casualty plot and for possessing child sexual abuse material. He was sent to a juvenile facility in Oil City and released in March 2026, NBC News reported.

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