PoliticsAttorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday he accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, two days after Democrats won the House and Senate. In her letter to President Trump, Dhillon says she told White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in early October that she would leave after the midterms. CBS News, citing two unnamed sources, reports Trump had demanded she be fired. Here's what the letter says, how each side sees her tenure and what's still unknown.
PoliticsThe Justice Department says it is sending monitors to all 50 states for Tuesday's midterms, its largest effort ever. Hennepin and Ramsey counties turned down its request to put them inside polling places, Minnesota is sending its own observers to watch the federal teams, and a federal judge in Washington set rules for who can serve. Here's what monitors are allowed to do, what they aren't, and why each side sees them so differently.
PoliticsA federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday refused to return the Justice Department's proposed indictment of a person prosecutors had brought before it. A DOJ lawyer told a magistrate judge in open court that the jurors did not concur, without naming anyone. Officials and people briefed on the case told four news organizations it was former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whose 2022 testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee Republicans have called false. She was never charged, and a no-bill does not stop prosecutors from trying again.
