Higher Education and Labor

House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, sent Attorney General Pam Bondi a letter demanding DOJ records by Feb. 2, alleging senior Trump administration officials ordered federal scrutiny of Renee Good’s widow, blocked state prosecutors’ access to evidence, and are taking similar steps in the Alex Pretti case. Multiple outlets report DOJ declined to open civil‑rights probes into both killings—routing the Pretti matter to ICE’s HSI and CBP’s compliance review—while congressional and state officials have raised alarms about investigatory irregularities (two agents fired in Pretti’s death, the recovered handgun lacked documented chain of custody, evidence was returned to DHS, several prosecutors resigned) and a federal judge has ordered preservation of federal evidence.