Democrat governor DEFIES DOJ investigation into noncitizen voting — DOJ vows to press on



The Department of Justice has announced an investigation into noncitizen voting in New Jersey, but the state's Democratic governor is resisting the probe.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) admitted on July 21 that about 6,600 noncitizens had been mistakenly registered to vote, and of those, about 400 cast votes.

'NJ has a legal duty to keep ineligible voters off its rolls ... DOJ will get this information through all legal means!'

She blamed the wrongful registrations on a "software error," though the company working with the Motor Vehicle Commission countered that all the information it transmits "must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections."

The Department of Justice responded by demanding that the governor hand over a list of those voters, but Sherrill has rejected the order.

"Today, I informed [Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon] that New Jersey will not provide the personal information of thousands of New Jersey residents. The request had no legal basis, and I will always protect New Jerseyans' personally identifiable information," Sherrill wrote on social media Tuesday.

She posted her letter response, which claimed that the request violated federal laws, including the Privacy Act.

On Wednesday, Dhillon fired back.

"Gov. Sherrill’s refusal to cooperate with federal law enforcement does nothing to protect law-abiding NJ voters," she responded on social media. "NJ has a legal duty to keep ineligible voters off its rolls, & our request is grounded in that legal authority. DOJ will get this information through all legal means!"

Sherrill had accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the government when asked if she would comply with the demand from the Justice Department.

"As I have said, I am not in the habit of turning over private, identifying information of the citizens of New Jersey," said the governor to a reporter. "This federal government is weaponizing the government against individuals that disagree with them. They weaponized my private data against me in my election, and so I am working to protect people and their private data here in New Jersey."

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Sherrill previously said the 400 noncitizens who voted were scattered across the state and were a mix of Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated.

She also said they were immediately taken off of the voter rolls as soon as her administration discovered the error, which she claims was made under her predecessor.

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School district is secretly 'transitioning' child, Trump administration alleges



The Trump administration is threatening action against a Maryland county after parents alleged their child was transitioned behind their backs.

Parents sued Anne Arundel County Public Schools on July 8, alleging that unidentified high school staff secretly “socially transitioned” their child.

‘The school was secretly helping their daughter pretend to be male.'

The Departments of Justice and Education issued a joint statement — entitled "Trump Administration Cracks Down on School Districts Secretly 'Transitioning' Students and Hiding it from Parents" — accusing the school district of violating parental rights.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act gives parents the right to review their children’s educational records. FERPA also empowers parents to request amendments to those records and control how they’re disclosed.

The DOJ and Education Department allege the Maryland school denied parents records access relevant to their child’s supposed social transition.

“When the parents approached school administrators about the matter, the principal declined to provide details about the student’s ‘gender transition,’ and the assistant principal refused to turn over the child’s relevant records,” according to the joint statement. “These policies and practices unlawfully impeded the parents’ ability to exercise their FERPA rights when it mattered most.”

America First Legal and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC are representing the anonymous parents in Maryland’s U.S. District Court.

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Identified as the Does, the parents discovered that "the school was secretly helping their daughter pretend to be male" after they received an email referring to their daughter by male pronouns, according to the joint statement. They previously educated their daughter "according to their religious beliefs that God creates each person as male or female, that sex is based on biology rather than internal self-perception, and that sex cannot be altered," the parents' lawsuit states.

“When confronted by the Does about this conduct, AACPS personnel first tried to lie and then, when that didn’t work, insisted that their actions complied with AACPS policy,” the lawsuit states.

“AACPS wrongly believes that it has greater authority than parents to control and direct the upbringing of students. AFL is eager and willing to correct this notion," senior counsel at America First Legal Ian Prior told Blaze News. "Parents have a fundamental right to know what is happening with their children at school, and they have every right to stop government officials from pushing radical gender ideology on their children."

"AFL is proud to stand with the Does as they fight to protect their daughter and vindicate their constitutional rights.”

AACPS did not respond to a request for comment. The Department of Education referred Blaze News to the DOJ.

AACPS policy, linked to the district website as of Tuesday afternoon, holds that information about a student’s gender identity can be considered “confidential medical information” and encourages staff to address students by their preferred pronouns.

"Let this serve as notice to every school district in the country: FERPA is not optional,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Blaze News. “The Department of Justice will enforce it to the maximum extent of the law, and any district that hides a child's sensitive information from their own parents should expect immediate federal action."

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Thousands of lawyers caught using AI — and it's only getting worse



The number of lawyers being reprimanded for AI usage has skyrocketed over the past year.

Those getting caught fudging their work aren't from law offices born out of a garage either; they're from some of the biggest legal teams in the country.

'AI can be a useful tool, but it cannot replace the lawyer's duty.'

Blaze News previously reported on a 2025 case from Mississippi where both sides of the aisle were caught using artificial intelligence when they submitted nonexistent citations in support of their case. The judge reprimanded both parties and canceled the trial.

Things have only gotten worse, as the number of cases involving hallucinated citations has since gone from hundreds to thousands. These cases have been tracked by a researcher named Damien Charlotin, who reports around 1,800 cases worldwide have been stymied by AI usage, more than 1,200 of which are in the United States.

Proponents of AI can't blame this on mom and pop legal shops either. A significant number of high profile legal teams have been caught up in the craze, including the Department of Justice.

A DOJ lawyer in Michigan faced a grilling from a judge just last week over citing a nonexistent appeals court case.

"It seems this citation was likely produced by generative artificial intelligence," Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou wrote, per Bloomberg.

Months earlier, a former DOJ lawyer in North Carolina submitted false quotes and erroneous citations, with the judge stating that the attorney "cannot avoid the consequences of his failure to account" for the hallucinations.

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Sullivan & Cromwell, a nearly 150-year-old Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge in April over hallucinated citations. Shockingly, the legal team admitted to three dozen errors, a number of which were reportedly fake passages from real cases. The firm also claimed some of the errors were clerical, the New York Times reported.

Even the AI creators are not immune to the citations, or rather, double-checking their work.

In May, a lawyer for Anthropic told a judge in a music copyright lawsuit in California that her team had used an incorrect citation that was hallucinated by AI.

The attorney reportedly used Anthropic's own chatbot, Claude, to create a citation from a real academic journal. However, the result was a fake title with fake authors, Reuters reported.

The law firm, Latham & Watkins, described it as an "an embarrassing and unintentional mistake."

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Attorney Crawford Appleby at Wisner Baum told Blaze News in a statement that AI hallucinations are becoming one of the biggest risks facing the modern U.S. legal system.

"AI can be a useful tool, but it cannot replace the lawyer's duty of candor, competence, and independent judgment," Appleby said.

The United States is leading the charge in AI hallucinations, with Australia, Canada, and the U.K. the next biggest offenders, but trailing behind by more than 1,000 cases.

The most common types of hallucinations happen in the form of fabricated case law (~1,500), followed by creating false quotes (~500). Misrepresentations of case law also happen quite often (~750), while sometimes AI can provide outdated advice (30+) or cite laws that have been repealed (15+).

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Rep. Cory Mills under investigation AGAIN — this time from the DOJ



Cory Mills, the scandal-plagued Republican congressman from Florida, is back on the radar of law enforcement, this time, at the Department of Justice.

A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Blaze News on Tuesday evening that Mills is under DOJ investigation. However, the nature and scope of the investigation remain unclear.

'Strap up cowboy.'

MS NOW, citing three sources, reported that it is a criminal investigation, and ABC News, citing sources, reported that at least part of the investigation relates to Mills' finances.

Mills' office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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For nearly a year and a half, Mills has been plagued by allegations ranging from stolen valor, to a conversion to Islam, to meeting with a Syrian leader once labeled a terrorist, and even to sextortion against a beauty queen.

As Blaze News reported in August, Mills allegedly bombarded Lindsey Langston, then the reigning Miss United States, with threatening messages after she ended their three-year relationship in February 2025.

Screenshots of messages allegedly from Mills and reviewed by Blaze News included:

  • "You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest. But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time."
  • "May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy."
  • "I can send him a few videos of you as well."

At the time, Langston told Blaze News, "Am I gonna wake up one day to videos of us having sex on social media? Because I know he has them, and he's put it in writing."

Langston was granted a restraining order against Mills in October.

This is a developing story.

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