U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked a federal judge Friday not to get involved with police reform in Chicago and reject a consent decree that the city and Illinois have been working on together for almost a year.
Read moreChicago claims U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions still refuses to release millions in federal policing funds because the city will not cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration policies, despite a nationwide injunction declaring such withholding unconstitutional.
Read moreA federal judge signed off on the forfeiture of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort’s Trump Tower apartment and his home in the Hamptons on Wednesday, ordering the Justice Department to take control of them later this month.
Read moreThe Justice Department inspector general said Wednesday that it failed to identify who leaked a sensitive UK intelligence report about the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, but that four FBI employees violated agency policy by forwarding the sensitive report.
Read moreThe Justice Department on Wednesday gave its preliminary approval to CVS’s $69 billion purchase of Aetna after the two companies agreed to spin off Aetna’s Medicare Part D prescription drug plan business.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday questioned a federal judge’s decision to overturn a Justice Department policy against prosecuting people accused of killing an endangered animal unless it could be proved that the individual knew the animal was endangered.
Read moreAerospace giant United Technologies Corporation can pay $30 billion to acquire Rockwell Collins, but not without divesting two of the latter’s businesses, the Justice Department concluded Monday.
Read moreA meeting between top state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about how the government can safeguard the privacy of social media users ended without a decision on whether to investigate.
Read moreDeputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is denying a report in The New York Times that he suggested last year he secretly record President Donald Trump in the White House to expose chaos in the administration.
Read moreThe Justice Department on Wednesday was slapped with a federal lawsuit demanding information on whether it followed its own rules and procedures when it secretly collected a New York Times journalist’s phone and email records.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s tweet indicating he would take the company private after the stock price reached a certain level, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday.
Read moreDepartment of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Congress earlier this year that he added a citizenship question to the 2020 census to help the Department of Justice enforce the Voting Rights Act.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday ruled the Trump administration exceeded its authority when it withheld a 2017 public safety grant from Los Angeles over its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Read moreA federal judge signaled Wednesday that he will likely block the Trump administration from cutting off grant funds to San Francisco and California for refusing to help detain and deport undocumented immigrants.
Read moreThe Justice Department’s inspector general is investigating how the FBI handled sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
Read moreThough Donald Trump ran on a pro-gun, Second Amendment platform, a recent study from Syracuse University shows the administration has stepped up prosecutions of weapons offenses, bringing 8,403 such cases in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2018, a 22.5 percent increase from the previous year.
Read moreA senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit heard arguments Thursday challenging the Trump administration’s policy of withholding law enforcement funding for “sanctuary cities” that limit cooperation between local police and federal immigration enforcement.
Read moreIn a case set to be the nation’s next big test on affirmative action, the Department of Justice urged a federal judge Thursday to side with Asian-American students accusing Harvard of discrimination.
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