US Justice Department freezes its civil rights litigation
The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the ...
Justice Department orders FBI purge, review of staff who touched Jan. 6 cases
Leaders appointed by the Trump administration are identifying potentially hundreds of FBI agents for possible termination, ...
Eric Adams' attorney meets with Justice Department over future of federal case: Sources
Mayor Eric Adams’s attorney visited Justice Department headquarters Friday to discuss the future of the mayor’s criminal ...
Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president
The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into ...
FBI employees questioned about involvement in Jan. 6 cases as Justice Department weighs firings
Thousands of FBI employees who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol are being asked to complete in-depth questionnaires about their involvement in the ...
More Than a Dozen Prosecutors at Washington U.S. Attorney’s Office Are Dismissed
Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what ...
US Justice Department senior career ethics official removed from post, source says
The Trump administration has removed the U.S. Justice Department's senior career ethics official from his post, according to ...
Justice Department orders investigation of local compliance with Trump immigration crackdown
The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local ...
New Group Aims to Help Justice Dept. Employees Alarmed by Trump
The group, Justice Connection, intends to support employees who say they are facing professional and ethical crises under the ...
Career US Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigns
Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other ...
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The Justice Department becomes Trump’s instrument of revenge
Every president at some point during his administration chafes at the independence of the Justice Department. None have moved as swiftly or definitively as President Donald Trump to put the ...