The Justice Department’s inspector general reported Tuesday that his investigative team uncovered errors in dozens of FBI applications to a secret surveillance court as part of an expanded investigation that started with a look at the probe of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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The case against Nassif Sami Daher and Kamel Mohammad Rammal, two Michigan men accused of food stamp fraud, hardly seemed exceptional. But the tool that agents used to investigate them was extraordinary: a secretive surveillance process intended to identify potential spies and terrorists.
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Aside from those who wear robes, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco may have the biggest role to play this term in some of the Supreme Court’s most closely watched cases, Yale Law students suggest in a new article on the evolving stature of amicus oral argument.
Read moreThe Department of Justice expressed support for a Kentucky photographer who claims that Louisville’s anti-discrimination law forces her to shoot same-sex weddings.
Read moreFOIA warrior Jason Leopold sued the Department of Justice in federal court for records on its sentencing records on Roger Stone, and President Trump’s involvement in it, in federal court.
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Escalating his intervention in the court system, President Donald Trump took aim Tuesday morning at Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying they should recuse themselves from cases relating to the president.
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Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve criminal and civil claims involving excessive and unrealistic sales goals that led employees to falsify records and create fake customer accounts to meet them.
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Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison — a match for the recommendation made more lenient by the Justice Department after President Donald Trump weighed in on the treatment of his longtime political ally.
Read moreAttorney General William Barr has told people close to him he’s considering quitting his post after President Trump would not heed his warning to stop tweeting about Justice Department cases, an administration official told The Associated Press.
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A voluntary group of nearly 1,100 federal judges will meet Wednesday to address Attorney General William Barr’s recent intervention in politically sensitive cases tied to President Donald Trump.
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In her first brush with the Roger Stone case since uproar over prison-time recommendations shook up the Justice Department, a federal judge said Tuesday she will not derail plans to sentence the longtime Trump adviser.
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President Trump is misrepresenting the Justice Department’s handling of the legal case of his confidant, Roger Stone.
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Former federal prosecutors warn the integrity of the Justice Department is in peril after the Trump administration reversed course on former campaign adviser Roger Stone’s sentencing.
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A look back at Donald Trump’s Twitter feed this week tells the story of a president who took aim and fired at the courts as the fallout from his Justice Department reversing its recommended sentence for Roger Stone battered Washington.
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Amid widespread concern about political influence creeping into the Justice Department’s most high-profile cases, Attorney General William Barr has appointed a prosecutor to look into former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s case, the New York Times reported Friday.
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Lawyers for Andrew McCabe said Friday that the former FBI deputy director will not face federal charges over his alleged involvement in a news media disclosure.
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House Democrats frustrated by the Senate’s acquittal of President Trump are pushing their oversight efforts to the Justice Department and what they call Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to politicize federal law enforcement.
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Attorney General William Barr lashed out at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the president’s social media attacks on the Justice Department “make it impossible to do my job” and that “I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody.”
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The fallout from the Justice Department paring down its sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone continued Thursday with the resignation of the official who previously headed the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.
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Attorney General Bill Barr will face questions from lawmakers in a much anticipated hearing in March, finally giving Democrats a chance to publicly and formally pore over their concerns that the nation’s chief law enforcement officer is misusing his power to give President Donald Trump political cover.
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