President Trump said he was deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to D.C., which he claims is out of control and overwhelmed by crime and homelessness — an account disputed by city officials and police data.
To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys’ offices, President Trump and the Justice Department are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that legal experts warn circumvent the appointment processes laid out by the Constitution and federal statutes.
The Department of Justice issued two subpoenas against the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of President Donald Trump’s foremost adversaries.
Since Trump stepped back into the Oval Office, we have quickly developed a warped sense of what is acceptable conduct from government officials. It goes without saying: if Joe Biden’s director of national intelligence had made a similar claim about a Republican lawyer, it would have been treated as a scandal.
An unpopular provision in a decades-old law lets ICE collaborate with state and local police by delegating to them the authority to enforce immigration rules.
A federal agency that oversees the conduct of federal employees is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw two criminal cases against President Trump before he returned to the White House.
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to respond to questions from the Democratic Party and pro-voting groups on his March anti-voting executive order.
As President Trump continues to rail against the judiciary, federal judges detailed in rare public remarks the barrage of violent threats they received after ruling against the Trump administration.
Trump appealed a court order that blocked core provisions of his executive order that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems.
