Attorney General

Trump visits Justice Department for speech that breaks all norms

President Donald Trump delivered an unusual, campaign-style speech at Justice Department headquarters Friday, heavy with grievance and meandering from such topics as Al Capone to allegations of judicial corruption as he defied the distance that has traditionally existed between the White House and the federal law enforcement agency.

Mar 17, 2025 10:50 AM CDT

Top House Judiciary Democrat seeks probe of US attorney Ed Martin

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is calling for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., accusing controversial prosecutor Ed Martin of violating the law and repeatedly ignoring legal ethics as he seeks to root out people he perceives as undermining President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Mar 13, 2025 3:20 PM CDT

ABA Legal Ed council suspended diversity standard; AG Bondi wants it scrapped

A move last month by the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to suspend the accreditation standard originally titled “Diversity and Inclusion” doesn’t go far enough, according to a Feb. 28 letter from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who wants the council to abolish it “immediately” or risk the right to accredit law schools.

Mar 6, 2025 1:32 PM CST

DOJ is hiring for court battles as Trump slashes other agencies

As mass layoffs hit other government agencies, the Justice Department is recruiting new attorneys to help defend President Donald Trump’s policies in court, according to public job postings, department officials and legal experts.

Feb 28, 2025 8:49 AM CST

DOJ nominees hedge on whether court orders must always be followed

Two Department of Justice nominees refused to say whether court orders must always be followed during questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Feb 27, 2025 3:24 PM CST

Job protections for administrative law judges are unconstitutional, DOJ concludes

The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that “multiple layers of removal restrictions” for administrative law judges are unconstitutional.

Feb 24, 2025 2:17 PM CST

DOJ files complaint against federal judge for alleged hostility against government lawyer

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a misconduct complaint Friday for alleged “hostile and egregious misconduct” by a federal judge presiding in a challenge to an executive order that says gender dysphoria conflicts with military troop readiness.

Feb 24, 2025 12:27 PM CST

Could courts run out of options if federal officials defy court orders?

The question was considered during President Donald Trump’s first term in office: What would happen if his administration ignored a court order? Now, news articles are considering the issue once again, and commentators are using the term “constitutional crisis” to describe worst-case scenarios.

Feb 20, 2025 2:56 PM CST

20 immigration judges fired, despite backlogs; one labels dismissal ‘political pink slip’

Immigration judges have not been spared from firings in the Trump administration, despite a backlog of 3.7 million cases in their courts at the end of last year.

Feb 18, 2025 1:56 PM CST

More prosecutors resign over order to drop Eric Adams corruption case

Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case, has quit over the Justice Department’s demand that the case be dismissed, calling any lawyer who would move in court to toss the matter a “fool” or “coward,” according to a copy of a letter obtained Friday.

Feb 14, 2025 1:21 PM CST

Meet the acting US attorney who quit over Eric Adams case

Long before she made headlines by defying a Trump administration order to drop criminal charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, prosecutor Danielle Sassoon clerked for two very conservative judges. She cited those clerkships in her resignation letter Thursday to AG Pam Bondi, explaining that her fealty to the law would not allow her to seek dismissal of the Adams case.

Feb 14, 2025 12:45 PM CST

Trump pauses enforcement of foreign bribery law, cites harm to ‘American economic competitiveness’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that that generally pauses enforcement of a law that bars companies operating in the United States from bribing foreign officials.

Feb 11, 2025 3:24 PM CST

On first day as AG, Bondi demands ‘zealous advocacy’ of Trump’s agenda

Pam Bondi was sworn in as the nation’s 87th attorney general Wednesday, inheriting a Justice Department roiled by Attorney General Pam Bondi spent her first day on the job Wednesday redirecting the Justice Department’s significant law enforcement authority toward addressing President Donald Trump’s grievances with the agency, making her allegiance to his agenda clear in a series of strongly worded directives.

Feb 5, 2025 4:00 PM CST

House asserts bar associations’ First Amendment rights, says AG’s Honors Program should be reinstated

The House also called for changes in President Donald Trump’s Jan. 21 executive order that encouraged the government and private sector to end “illegal preferences and discrimination.”

Feb 3, 2025 7:57 PM CST

DOJ fires officials who worked on Jack Smith’s Trump investigation

The Justice Department fired more than a dozen officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, citing a lack of trust in them, a department spokesman said Monday.

Jan 28, 2025 7:12 AM CST