A Republican member of Congress is calling for death row prisoners to be hanged after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it will move to expedite death row executions, including — for the first time in federal civilian history — by adding firing squads. The DOJ also said it will readopt lethal injections.

Declaring that it has a “solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences,” the DOJ said in a statement that it will work to clear the way for the Department to “carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals.”

The Department called the executions critical steps “to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones.”

The DOJ said it “has rescinded the Biden-Garland moratorium on federal executions and has authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants.”

Before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison.

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“The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child murderers, and cop killers,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims.”

“Now do hanging,” demanded U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee.

Burchett last year suggested that House Republicans might offer convicted sex trafficker and Epstein partner Ghislaine Maxwell the possibility of a reduced sentence in exchange for her testimony.

In 2023, after the mass shooting deaths of three nine-year-olds and three adults at a Nashville Christian elementary school, Burchett told reporters nothing could be done.

“We’re not gonna fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals,” he told reporters.

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President Donald Trump has little intention of leaving the White House says veteran political analyst A.B. Stoddard, arguing that he believes he is a “savior” and will either try to find some way to run for another term, cancel the election, or do something else radical.

“I don’t think he has any intention of leaving,” Stoddard told columnist Bill Kristol.

She believes there are “two paths” for Trump.

“He does not want to fall apart in public,” Stoddard said, adding that he will be forced to “make a calculation at some point.”

Asking if Trump can “serve and walk across stages, make speeches, be as visible as he wants to be, which he really needs?” she noted that the president “needs to be on camera as many days a week as he can.”

“I think he will make the calculation that he cannot run again if he’s feeling that he’s aging too quickly” for another term, she said.

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“He has no intention, I believe, of having any kind of successor that’s not in his family. So he’s either going to find a way to try to run for [another] term, or cancel the election, or do something very radical,” which is “not beyond him,” she said.

Stoddard says she could see Trump trying to pass his presidency off to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, his son, Donald Trump Jr. or his daughter, Ivanka Trump — but not Eric Trump. And he’s not going to walk away from the money he is making now — the most he’s ever made in his life.

It’s “absolute lunacy” to think that he is going to walk away from “the two things that soothe his demons,” which are “adulation and money.”

“I genuinely believe, Bill, that he believes that he is some kind of, you know, savior,” Stoddard declared.

“I mean, it’s always about how he was brought here by God,” she continued. “I don’t know that he has [the] specifics down, but he certainly believes he is special, and he craves that, that central, you know, all the attention has to be on him.”

She also said that had Trump lost the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton and never been president, he would have “just sat on Fox three days a week, just bashing her.”

She concluded that she cannot see Trump just going off “like an old man into the sunset.”

A.B. Stoddard: “I don’t think Trump has any intention of leaving…He’s either going to find a way to try to run for second term or cancel the election or pass it off to Don Jr….The idea that he’s going to give up [the adulation and money] is lunacy.” pic.twitter.com/313ZSZQR0o

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 24, 2026

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During an overnight social media spree, President Donald Trump suggested that the Southern Poverty Law Center — the civil rights organization his Justice Department indicted this week on fraud charges — may have cost him the 2020 election, and that the results should be voided if the allegations prove true.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD,” the president wrote at 1:13 a.m.

“This is another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others,” he said, referring to the popular Democratic fundraising platform.

“If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

The president did not explain how or why the SPLC possibly committing fraud could have any effect on the 2020 election, but earlier this week he also floated the 2020 allegation.

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Trump told reporters, “now they’re finding out that the 2020 election was totally rigged,” and asked, “how do you defend what just happened, where your southern law, whatever it is, has given money to the KKK?”

“They’re supposed to protect people,” he said of the SPLC, “and they’re paying all these people, crooked as can be, millions of dollars, millions of dollars, going all to all these people that they’re supposed to be protecting from, but they’re actually supporting them, because they want to have companies that they can protect, and because they want to rig elections.”

“That was all a rigged election,” he continued. “All of the things were Charlottesville, all of the stuff that they did, and you won’t bring that up,” he said, chastising a reporter.

The New York Post reports that DOJ prosecutors are “claiming $3 million worth of donated funds was secretly funneled to groups,” including the Ku Klux Klan and others, between 2014 and 2023.

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