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The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on federal fraud charges.
The indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center alleges it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of hate groups for inside information.
Professor John Coffey asserts that the Trump administration is pursuing a criminal investigation against the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
AT&T and Verizon are challenging $104 million in penalties from the FCC at the Supreme Court, arguing the process was unconstitutional.
The Department of Justice, representing the FCC, conceded that companies are not required to pay FCC penalties immediately.
The Supreme Court case SEC v. Jarkesy established that in certain cases, agency adjudication of liability without a jury trial violates the Seventh Amendment.
Professor Daniel Lyons predicts that the Supreme Court's ruling in the FCC case will cause a ripple effect, forcing other federal agencies to reinterpret their enforcement statutes as non-binding to avoid constitutional issues.
The U.S. federal government will begin automatically registering eligible men aged 18 to 25 for the military draft starting in December.
The automatic military draft registration measure was included in the National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Donald Trump.
Beginning in December 2026, the Selective Service System will use Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security databases to automatically register men for the draft.
A growing consensus within military think tanks like the Army War College and the Center for New American Security suggests the U.S. would likely need to reinstate the draft for a land war with a major power like Russia, Iran, or China.
FBI Director Kash Patel severed the relationship between the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center last year.