Trump wants to ramp up the federal death penalty. Before he left, the former attorney general made that harder

The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

Attorney General Merrick Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters at the Justice Department and restore its reputation for independence after four turbulent years during Donald Trump's presidency WASHINGTON -- During hearings on Merrick Garland's ...

U.S. Attorney Hayden O'Byrne asked the appeals court to dismiss the classified documents case in a way it could not be appealed again.

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has been in the Senate longer than most Americans have been alive. Now he holds an important key to Donald Trump's second-term agenda.

As President Joe Biden gets ready to leave office, we consider his accomplishments, failures, and what his legacy will be.

In less than a week in office, Trump commenced officially erasing the truth not simply about January 6, 2021, but about the past four years.

Republicans roasted Attorney General Merrick Garland on social media after a video of him doing a victory lap while leaving the Department of Justice became viral. In the clip, which was posted on Friday via X, a celebratory Garland walked and thanked cheering department staffers while the outgoing AG exited out of the building.

Dowd: Lorne Michaels’ [the creator and producer of “S.N.L.”] theory is that even the biggest villains have to have a drop of humanity. Also, he doesn’t believe in bringing your biases in, but then, most of the cast members are very liberal, and they do believe in that. So there’s always that tension.

The move breaks with federal norms against punishing civil servants for actions taken under a different administration.

The Justice Department fired more than a dozen officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald ... Trump announced his presidential bid — Attorney General Merrick ...