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Justice Department draws fire over midterm role
The Guardian says the attorney general is campaigning for Republicans and agents searched a Democratic congresswoman's home, as more than 127,000 Minnesotans had already voted.
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- First reported by The Guardian: “How Trump’s justice department is shattering practice of political neutrality as midterms loom”.
- Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 1:28 PM ET on Weekend Edition, by Chip Darnell and Hank Ledger.
- Topics: Justice Department, Trump.
- BBN covered this story before: Justice Department Seeks to Disqualify Judge Overseeing Golf Course… (October 16).
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Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe Guardian says the Justice Department is breaking its habit of neutrality, with a raid on a Democratic congresswoman's home and the attorney general campaigning for Republicans.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOne hundred twenty-seven thousand Minnesotans had cast their ballots already.
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The story so far
- Justice Department investigates TV networks as White House… · CNBC
- Pool report boycott may have broken US law, DOJ says · TheBlaze
- DOJ presses California to withhold flagged voters' ballots · Los Angeles Times
- DOJ names 20,000 noncitizen voters in California suit · CBS News
- California voter-roll lawsuit: what the deadline was and what comes… · CBS News
- Justice Department Seeks to Disqualify Judge Overseeing Golf Course… · The New York Times
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