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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), whom President Trump pardoned of bribery charges, said late Wednesday he was “absolutely” targeted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Biden. “Do you believe you were targeted by the Biden DOJ?
The Biden administration was evidently concerned about potential legal liability in federal cases for people convicted of violating gun laws simply by being a cannabis consumer who possessed a firearm,
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan revealed Thursday that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department secretly snooped on his phone records over a two-year period as part of its Arctic Frost investigation.
As a partner at Pillsbury, Todd Kim, who led DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) for more than three years under former President Joe Biden, will handle energy, environmental, state attorney general and appellate litigation matters, the firm said.
A Democratic congresswoman is demanding more information from the Trump administration about its current cannabis enforcement policy on federal lands after Marijuana Moment reported obtained documents showing that Biden-era guidance urging prosecutorial discretion was rescinded earlier this year.
The Department of Justice subpoenaed the personal phone records of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan in 2022, seeking the Ohio Republican's phone data covering a more than two-year period.
Tim Leiweke was indicted in July in connection with conspiracy to rig the bidding process for the development of an arena at the University of Texas in Austin.