DOJ shuts the door on old tax fightsActing Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order on Tuesday that bars the IRS from examining President Donald Trump’s prior tax returns and blocks the agency from pursuing pending claims against Trump, his family, or his businesses. The order comes from a settlement in Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, filed in the Southern District of Florida and dated May 19, 2026. In the tidy language that only government can love, the document says the United States “RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES” the claims tied to the case and is “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from moving ahead on related actions. Bureaucracy rarely misses a chance to make a simple idea sound like a medieval curse.The settlement reaches beyond one audit disputeThe order does not just address one set of tax files. It says the IRS is barred from probing tax returns filed before the settlement’s effective date and from pressing claims involving Trump, his family members, and affiliated businesses. That is a broad shield, and broad shields are often what you get when a legal fight starts to look like a political one. The Trump administration did not immediately respond to Fox News…

Charges Filed After The January Shooting Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced charges Monday against ICE officer Christian Castro in the January 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Moriarty said Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The case comes from an enforcement operation in Minneapolis, where federal officers were chasing another man to an apartment duplex shared by the men. In a year when every agency seems to issue its own version of reality before lunch, the courthouse is now where the story has to survive. What Prosecutors And Federal Officials Disagree On According to Moriarty, Sosa-Celis and the other man were legally in the United States. Federal authorities had first said the two men assaulted an officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel during the incident, but a federal judge later dismissed those charges. Federal officials then opened an investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about what happened. That leaves the public with the usual gift from government communications, a pile of claims, a stack of denials, and not much help from anyone paid to be crystal…