Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
McConnell: Senate will stay until 12 Trump judges approved
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that the Senate will stay in session this month until it approves a dozen more Trump judicial picks and four other executive branch nominees. Published August 23, 2018
Judge orders report on Starr Clinton probe media leaks released
A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to quickly process and release a long-secret report detailing an investigation into whether anyone in the independent counsel's office in the 1990s leaked grand jury information to the press. Published August 22, 2018
Cristhian Rivera legal status turns Mollie Tibbetts case into immigration flashpoint
A judge set $5 million bail Wednesday for the immigrant accused of killing an Iowa college student, in a case that's quickly turning into a major test for both President Trump and immigrant-rights activists. Published August 22, 2018
Cristhian Rivera, Mollie Tibbetts suspect, has U.S. legal status claims disputed by DHS
Homeland Security officials said they can find no evidence that Cristhian Rivera got permission to be in the U.S., pushing back Wednesday against the novel legal claims of the lawyer for the man accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts. Published August 22, 2018
Trump tainted trial of Tibbetts slaying suspect, lawyer says
The lawyer for the illegal immigrant accused of killing an Iowa college student suggested Wednesday that President Trump has tainted his client's chance to get a fair hearing by publicly talking about the case. Published August 22, 2018
Feds target manufacturers, dealers, doctors in major anti-opioid sweep
The Justice Department opened several new fronts Wednesday in the battle against opioid addiction, announcing legal action against Chinese manufacturers that ship drugs into the U.S., "dark net" operators who sell them to users, and doctors who overprescribe painkillers to their patients. Published August 22, 2018
DHS gets new leader on international affairs
Homeland Security has a new assistant secretary for international affairs with the elevation of Dimple Shah, who will shepherd the department's efforts to get other countries to cooperate on deportations and work on cutting their flow of illegal immigrants heading to the U.S. Published August 22, 2018
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, illegal immigrant, charged in Mollie Tibbetts death
Police charged an illegal immigrant Tuesday with killing Mollie Tibbetts and dumping her body in a cornfield after he led police to the body, in a startling conclusion to a monthlong search for the Iowa college student. Published August 21, 2018
RNC uses Nazi deportation to attack Dem star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for abolishing ICE. Now Republicans are pointing out that the deportation agency just removed a notorious Nazi from her "backyard." Published August 21, 2018
Jakiw Palij, 95-year-old Nazi who lived in the U.S., deported to Germany
The Trump administration deported a 95-year-old Nazi to Germany early Tuesday morning, ending nearly two decades of investigation, legal battles and thorny negotiations to find another country willing to take him. Published August 21, 2018
Trump warns of ‘terror, bloodshed and suffering’ in Abolish ICE movement
President Trump blasted those calling for the abolition of ICE as cowardly "loud mouths," and demanded Monday that governors and mayors pick sides between federal immigration agents and the chaos of "open borders extremists." Published August 20, 2018
Judge halts full DACA restart
The federal judge who had ordered the government to restart the Obama-era deportation amnesty in full has backed off his decision and said the government does not, after all, have to begin accepting new applications. Published August 18, 2018
Feds accuse Facebook of discrimination over ad-targeting policy
The Trump administration announced a fair housing discrimination complaint against social media giant Facebook on Friday, saying the way the company targets ads can be used to screen out people based on race, sex or other protected categories. Published August 17, 2018
Donald Trump says Bruce Ohr next to lose security clearance
President Trump said Friday his next target for stripping security clearance is high-ranking Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, and said it will probably happen quickly. Published August 17, 2018
Trump says Manafort is ‘a very good person’ as jury debates his fate
President Trump said Friday that Paul Manafort is "a very good person," and said the government's prosecution against his former campaign chief is "very sad." Published August 17, 2018
Illegal immigrant children skip deportation hearings, disappear each day
On any given day, nearly 20 illegal immigrant children skip their deportation hearings and disappear into the shadows, the Trump administration said Thursday, putting contours on the difficulty the government faces in trying to stop the flow and protect the children. Published August 16, 2018
Leydi Duenas-Claros, nursing illegal immigrant mother, sues over border separation
An illegal immigrant mother who says she was separated from her still-nursing 11-month-old daughter filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday arguing she was put through unfathomable trauma which hurt her chances to make a good asylum case. Published August 16, 2018
Govt. spent $2.5 billion to jail criminal migrants in 2016: Study
The federal government spends about $1.4 billion a year incarcerating migrants charged or convicted of crimes, and states spent at least $1.1 billion more, Congress's chief investigative arm said in a report Thursday. Published August 16, 2018
Democratic socialists seek new round of winners in latest endorsements
The national Democratic Socialists of America on Thursday endorsed a new U.S. Senate candidate in Maine and a dozen others seeking office at state and local levels across the country, seeking to capitalize on record levels of attention. Published August 16, 2018
Feds point fingers as illegal immigrant children face abuse: Senate probe
Illegal-immigrant children are slipping through the federal safety net designed to protect them from abuse, Senate investigators said in a new report released Wednesday that found no federal agency willing to step up and accept responsibility for them once they're released into the community. Published August 15, 2018
