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Republican senators say Jack Smith poses conflict of interest issues now that he is special counsel in the Trump case, and they accuse the DOJ of having a double standard.

A New York jury has convicted Donald Trump’s company of tax fraud.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the early work of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division meant confronting white supremacists who were intimidating Black voters, and the division's work remains urgent 65 years later amid a surge of hate crimes.

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local election officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

The Biden administration is actively searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women.

As a businessman and president, Donald Trump faced a litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations yet emerged from the legal scrutiny time and again with his public and political standing largely intact.

Jackson's mayor said he hoped the "collaborative effort to repair, replace and modernize Jackson's water infrastructure" would become a "model for other U.S. cities."

A Washington, D.C., jury on Tuesday convicted Oath Keepers leaders Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy.

The Justice Dept. will weigh the conviction of Stewart Rhodes and a top deputy in deciding whether to pursue other high-profile Trump allies, people familiar with the matter said.

The U.S. Justice Department has received a federal judge’s approval to carry out its proposal to improve the precarious water system in Mississippi’s capital city.

Attorney General Merrick Garland hailed the seditious conspiracy convictions handed down Tuesday in the trial of Oath Keepers founder Steward Rhodes and his associate and pledged to continue to hold all Jan. 6 attackers to account. (Nov. 30)

The Justice Department is making a rare intervention to try to bring improvements in the beleaguered water system in the Mississippi capital city.

"Donald Trump decides that a good strategy would be to attack the prosecutor's spouse," Glenn Kirschner commented.

The former vice president has not been subpoenaed and has not decided whether to cooperate in Trump-related investigation, a person familiar with the matter said.

Donald Trump is under criminal investigation by the DOJ in connection with efforts to remain in the White House after losing to President Joe Biden.

Merrick Garland’s emphasis at the Justice Department has been to restore the department to its nonpartisan status.

Prosecutor Jack Smith must assemble a team, find office space and catch up on the long-running, high-stakes cases involving former president Donald Trump.

Under Attorney General Merrick Garland the U.S. Department of Justice has become a political organization. He has used his immense powers to protect President Biden and punish others.

Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith special counsel last week.

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Sunday said the appointment of a special counsel to oversee federal investigations into former President Trump indicates the Department of Justice (DOJ) still believes it has a “viable potential case” against him. Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential…

The task for Merrick Garland—and now Jack Smith—is to ignore political considerations and resolve the investigations as speedily and equitably as possible.

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The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the remainder of two significant investigations related to former President Donald Trump focuses fresh attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history.

The prosecutor named as special counsel to oversee investigations related to former President Donald Trump has a long career confronting public corruption and war crimes.

The Political Scene’s Washington roundtable assesses major announcements by the former President and departing House Speaker.

"Gobble gobble, gobble gobble," cracked the "Tonight Show" host in an imitation of the former president.

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett sounded off Friday after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a dual-front Trump special counsel investigation.

During his last show of the year, HBO star Bill Maher addressed the "breaking news" about Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a former Justice Department prosecutor to investigate two criminal cases involved former-President Donald Trump.

Republican lawmakers criticized President Biden after the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to oversee probes into former President Donald Trump.

Democrats believe they will ultimately benefit from Trump’s decision to embrace claims of a grand conspiracy against him.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced he would appoint Jack Smith, a career prosecutor with experience handling war crimes, to investigate former President Trump.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate and aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.

What to know about the Justice Dept. decision to appoint Special Counsel Jack Smith to oversee the Mar-a-Lago investigation and aspects of the Jan. 6 criminal probe.

Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley, ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Shannon Bream and ‘Wall Street Journal at Large’ host Gerry Baker analyze what impact the special master in Trump investigations

Former President Trump on Friday blasted the Justice Department’s appointment of a special counsel to oversee its probes on him, saying he would not “partake” in the investigations. Trump, in an interview with Fox News Digital, suggested the appointment of a special counsel was politically motivated, despite Attorney General Merrick Garland saying he was making the…

The news comes days after the former president said he's running for president in 2024.

The announcement comes days after Donald Trump said he would again seek election in 2024, potentially against incumbent President Joe Biden.

A senior Justice Department official disclosed the appointment on Friday but did not reveal the identity of the special counsel.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has chosen a special counsel to examine the criminal investigation into sensitive information allegedly held at Mar-a-Lago.

The official will oversee the case of the national security documents that were found at the former president's Florida estate and key aspects of the Jan. 6 probes, according to a senior DOJ official.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate and aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.

Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election. The move, being announced just three days after Trump formally launched his 2024 candidacy, is a recognition of the unmistakable political implications of two investigations that involve not only a former president but also a current White House hopeful. Garland said Friday that Trump’s announcement of his presidential candidacy and President Joe Biden’s likely 2024 run were factors in his decision to appoint a special counsel.

Former President Donald Trump faces multiple criminal investigations. A special counsel will be named to determine if federal charges should be lodged against the Republican.

The highest profile trial in Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack investigation is nearing its end.

Yanjun Xu was convicted last November of economic espionage by a federal jury in Ohio.

Donald Trump has officially declared himself a candidate for president, but that won’t shield him from the same criminal investigations that confront him as an ordinary citizen.

Some legal experts say it's too late to appoint a special counsel to take over investigations of Donald Trump, even if he announces a 2024 presidential bid.

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion attended the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary.

Some critics say the newly aggressive approach by Biden administration lawyers uses antitrust law inappropriately to tackle labor and social issues.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is investigating the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, prompted by U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins’ appearance at a political fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden.

House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee released a 1,000-page report on Friday outlining how the FBI and Justice Department have abandoned their commitment to political neutrality in recent years.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans have released a 1,000-page report detailing allegations of FBI and Justice Department misconduct.

Sen. Ted Cruz explained how the Department of Justice under President Biden had become corrupted by political bias in his new book, "Justice Corrupted."

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are calling for the Biden administraton to preserve documents related to its handling of the crisis at the southern border.

One year after Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a controversial memo, Republicans remain unconvinced that the letter was focused solely on violence.

The policy, announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland a year ago, restricts legal action federal prosecutors can take against journalists as they pursue their work.

Two suspected Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with attempting to obstruct the U.S. criminal investigation and prosecution of Chinese tech giant Huawei.

The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix says he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election.

Federal prosecutors have brought charges against Chinese intelligence officers in three different criminal cases, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Monday.

Attorney General Merrick Garland detailed three criminal cases involving efforts by China in the United States.

Attorney General Merrick Garland will hold a news conference Monday afternoon to discuss "significant national security cases addressing malign influence

Justice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.

The Biden administration has announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his administration would uncover “the crime of the century” — a conspiracy to sink his 2016 campaign.

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R.

In an extraordinary step, the House Jan. 6 committee has voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump – a final effort to get the full story of the Capitol insurrection as the panel wraps up its work by the end of the year.

The Biden administrating is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three U.S. attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts.

Thirteen state attorneys general sent a letter to Biden administration AG Merrick Garland warning him against investigating and prosecuting critics of child gender transition surgeries.

In a statement to NPR, a spokesperson for the New York State Unified Court System said the defense has "neither filed a notice nor requested an extension to do so."

The reported presence of China’s Fuzhou police in New York City has prompted a group of Republican House lawmakers to seek answers from President Biden’s Cabinet Secretaries. Headed by Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R, IND-3), Reps. Michael Waltz (R, FL-6) and Mike Gallagher (R, WI-8), the group of 21 lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland to demand answers on how the Chinese police were able to establish a branch in the U.S. “We are writing to express our grave concern over reports of the law enforcement presence of the People’s Republic of China in New York City,” the letter began.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once was shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric.

Revelations about the warrant that led to the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor are scratching old wounds in Louisville, Kentucky.

A U.S. senator says a whistleblower has alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades.

Three major medical associations are asking the U.S. attorney general to investigate and prosecute people who are threatening violence against children’s hospitals and physicians that provide gender-affirming health care.

The Supreme Court says it won’t take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Federal officials say an increasing number of fake prescription pills containing potentially deadly fentanyl are helping drive overdose death rates to record levels in the U.S. And officials warn that some of the pills are being manufactured in rainbow colors designed to look like candy.

The government is getting its day in court to try to block a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue.

President Joe Biden’s pick to head the National Archives is pledging to be a nonpartisan leader as she tries to allay concerns by Republicans considering her nomination.

The nominee to head the National Archives is set to face an unusually contentious Senate confirmation hearing this week.

President Joe Biden has nominated a Miami litigator and longtime government lawyer to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the office currently involved in the search warrants at the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump.

A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.

The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration.

A former Louisville police detective who helped falsify the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal charge.

Tuesday’s primary elections feature two top Florida Democrats squaring off for the right to face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office.

A Republican candidate for Congress in western New York said in an interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be executed," before later clarifying that he wasn’t being serious.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is imploring fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home.

Republicans in Congress are not only defending Donald Trump against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home.

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has already sent reverberations across the country even as new details emerge about what federal agents were looking for in the investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence.

Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the federal warrant the FBI used to search the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump.

The director of the FBI has strong words for supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been using violent rhetoric in the wake of his agency’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

-U.S. Rep. Scott Perry says his cellphone was seized Tuesday by FBI agents carrying a search warrant.

Federal authorities would have needed to meet an extraordinarily high threshold for probable cause to sign off on such a high-profile, politically explosive operation, legal experts say.

For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge this week to bar Idaho from enforcing its near-total abortion ban while a lawsuit pitting federal health care law against state anti-abortion legislation is underway.

The FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence is ricocheting around government, politics and a polarized country.