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The Justice Department said it's ramping up efforts to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes or pose a ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Brett Shumate is an Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the Department of Justice with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2025 ...
During Tuesday’s hearing before the three-judge panel, Brett Shumate, an attorney for the Trump administration, told the judges that the National Guard is needed to protect federal buildings and ...
Bennett’s opinion directly refuted the argument — made by Assistant Atty. Gen. Brett Shumate in Tuesday’s hearing — that the decision to federalize National Guard troops was ...
“That would be the president’s decision, based on all of the facts available to him,” Brett Shumate, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said when presented ...
Trump’s control of the Guard troops will likely come down to judges’ interpretation of the federal law cited by the Shumate, or possibly the federal Insurrection Act, if Trump invokes it.
Federal courts have no role whatsoever in assessing President Donald Trump's decision to take control of the California National Guard, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate argued at a hearing ...
Law & Crime reports the DOJ told a three-judge panel that President Donald Trump’s federalization of militia can’t be second-guessed by the courts, not even if the president mobilizes forces from all ...
Brett Shumate, representing the federal government, said the appeals court should grant the Trump administration's request for a stay of a lower court's order, which would have blocked Trump's ...
In Monday’s filing, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said Xinis and the Maryland court no longer have standing to hear the case.
Nation Nation & World Politics ‘Occupation’ or fighting ‘rebellion’? 9th Circuit weighs Trump’s case for troops in LA ...
At a federal appeals hearing Tuesday, Justice Department lawyer Brett Shumate told the Court that conditions in Los Angeles, where protests against Trump's aggressive deportation policy have at ...