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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 ...
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 ...
During the hearing, DOJ Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate argued that the constitutional violation found with Trump's deployment of the National Guard by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ...
Justice Department lawyer Brett Shumate told the panel that Breyer had "improperly second-guessed the president's judgment" about the need to call up the National Guard to protect federal property ...
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 ...