The hanging death of Demetrius Fleming in Roanoke Rapids comes only a week after an unidentified Black man was found hanging from a tree in Raleigh.
Last year, Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian migrant, made headlines after he was wrongly deported to a detention center in El Salvador before finally being returned to the U.S.
OPINION: The Trump administration has spent much of its second term trying to federalize control of elections ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.
Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the Justice Department has framed most efforts to limit discrimination as federal overreach.
Trump said Thursday he was willing to end Blanche's nomination, but keep him on as acting attorney general and re-nominate him later, when Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are out of the way.
An appellate court rejected Trump's request last September, yet his attorneys are relying on the same argument to try and sway the Supreme Court.
The FBI would reportedly stop investigating claims of assaults against DHS agents, which often lead to evidence implicating the agents themselves.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams rebuked Trump and the DOJ for filing the suit, and also referred two of the Trump's lawyers for potential disciplinary action.
On Thursday, a federal judge ordered the DOJ to either release unredacted versions of several files related to late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, or explain why it can't do so.
Minnesota's chief federal judge, Patrick J. Schiltz, ruled the DOJ cannot force state officials to take part in Trump's immigration crackdown.
On Tuesday, the federal government joined an existing lawsuit against the city of Evanston, Illinois, over the creation of a reparations program.
The question is whether or not Todd Blanche can survive the Senate confirmation process, especially after his defense of Trump's reparations fund.