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Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday excoriated Emil Bove, a top Trump Justice Department official and nominee for a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that he was uniquely unqualified for the seat on the federal bench. Bove, President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee along with four district court nominees. His nomination has come under fire this week after allegations that he suggested flouting court orders to fulfill Trump’s political agenda. His nomination has become the first flashpoint judicial confirmation battle of Trump’s…

Mostafa Sadati-Armaki, along with his wife and three children, died in the latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reports Top Iranian nuclear scientist Sayyed Mostafa Sadati-Armaki and his entire family have been killed in Israel’s latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reported on Monday.According to the state-run Iranian outlet, Sadati-Armaki was a member of the “scientific elite.” He was killed along with his wife, three children and in-laws in Israel’s latest strikes on the capital of the Islamic Republic.Tasnim stated that their deaths came as the Israeli military was deliberately targeting residential areas and civilians that had “nothing…

Maureen S. Riordan is the Senior Counsel, and Acting Chief of the Voting Section, part of the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice. She was appointed to that role in May 2025. She is the top elections enforcement official in the Civil Division at the Trump/Bondi Department of Justice. She has spent nearly her entire professional career at the Department of Justice. Lawyers close to the Department of Justice tell the Gateway Pundit that she’s nowc the “top dog” for election crimes. From 2021-2025, Riordan worked for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which sues states to clean up…