Crime

Hawley, Schmitt Introduce Resolution Honoring Two Missouri Deputies Killed in the Line of Duty

WASHINGTONย -- Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)ย and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) introduced aย resolutionย honoringย the lives ofย two fallen Missouri deputiesย from Christian County.ย Deputy Gabriel Ramirez died in the line of duty while attempting to administer a traffic stop when the suspect opened fire. This prompted a massive manhunt for the suspect involving approximately 150 law enforcement officers. When officers located the suspect, they were met with gunfire again. A 30 minute gun battle...

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Hawley Opens Investigation into Google for Failure to Remove Child Sex Abuse Materialย 

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Alphabet Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai, informing the company that his Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism is opening an investigation into the role that Big Tech platforms like Google play in the crisis of child trafficking and online exploitation.  "Yesterday, the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which I chair, convened a hearing to investigate gaps...

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Senator Hawley Calls for Minnesota AG Keith Ellison to be INDICTED

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-mo.) grilled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for cooperating with fraudsters in his state and called for him to resign. Senator Hawley questioned Ellison, "You are familiar with the $9 billion in historic fraud out of your state, including the $250 million in the Feeding Our Future program alone?" "I am familiar with it," Ellison responded. "Because the people who ran the Feeding Our Future program came to you...

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Hawley Exposes Fraud in State and Federal Programs and Dark Money Funding Web

WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) chaired a hearing in his Homeland Security Subcommittee exposing the widespread fraud in state and federal programs, as well as the dark money groups sponsoring radical left-wing subversion in Americaโ€™s streets. โ€œYou testified that about a trillion dollars you think is lost in fraud every year. Where's this money going?โ€ Chairman Hawley asked Haywood Talcove, CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. ...

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Hawley Urges DOJ to Investigate Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Funding Anti-ICE Protests

WASHINGTONย -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)ย sentย a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi,ย urgingย the Department of Justice toย investigateย radical left-wing organizations and individuals funding anti-ICE protestsโ€”including those with possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party."I write to request that the Department of Justice open a comprehensive investigation into the funding and coordination of recent so-called 'grassroots' anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) campaigns...

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Hawley Secures Commitment from Trump DOJ to Investigate Biden FBI Spying on Him, Calls for Special Prosecutor

Today, in a Senate Judiciary hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)ย secured a commitmentย from Attorney General Pam Bondi that her Department of Justice (DOJ) would fully investigate how Joe Biden weaponized his DOJ to track Senator Hawley's personal communications and access his confidential phone records. Biden's special prosecutor Jack Smith also spied on seven other Republican members of Congress. Senator Hawley lamented Biden's weaponization of government against conservatives and what...

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‘Abuse of Power Beyond Watergate’: Hawley Reacts to New Reporting that Biden FBI Spied on Him, Other Republican Lawmakers

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement following explosive new reporting, revealing that President Joe Biden's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on Republican senators and a representativeโ€”going so far as to tap the lawmakers' private communications and phone calls. The organized spying campaign was part of the Biden-era "Arctic Frost" investigation. The truth comes out. Bidenโ€™s Stasi who claimed to be saving โ€œour sacred democracyโ€ in fact...

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WATCH: Hawley Grills Former Biden Advisor Over Defund the Police Advocacy and Gender Lunacy

This morning, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Gregory Jackson, Jr.โ€”former President Joe Biden's Deputy Director of Gun Violence Preventionโ€”for advocating to defund the police and invest in "safe-spaces" for "two-spirit" individuals. โ€œMr. Jackson, Do you renounce the report that you authored as executive director?โ€ Senator Hawley asked. โ€œThis is your report, 'A Policymaker's Playbook To Reduce Gun Violence Without Policing Communities'...

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Hawley Expands Investigation, Demands Documents from Big Tech on AI Chatbot Policies after Hearing

Following an explosive Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing thatย exposedย the harm AI chatbots have caused to children, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued document requests to Character.AI, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Snap Inc. demanding they turn over all communications related to their AI chatbot policies.ย  In the letters, Senator Hawley, who chairs the committee, noted the testimony of several parents who lost their children to suicide at...

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ICYMI: Chairman Hawley Exposes AI Chatbots for Harming Children

'Every Parent's Worst Nightmare' U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, held a hearing to expose the growing harms to children posed by online chatbots like Character.AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta. The hearing featured new testimony from parents of chatbot victims as well as AI safety experts and psychologistsโ€”one of whom recently issued a health advisory for AI chatbots.One mother...

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