President Donald Trump made his first proactive move to counter the Russia investigation, demanding in a weekend tweet storm that the Department of Justice investigate whether the Obama administration improperly surveilled his campaign.
Read morePresident Donald Trump says he’ll demand that the Justice Department review whether it or the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign for political purposes and whether any demands or requests came from the Obama administration.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Friday used his Twitter account to advance an unverified theory circulating among conservatives that the Justice Department planted a spy in his 2016 campaign and is now “out to frame him.”
Read moreThe Department of Justice on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss two lawsuits seeking to hold the world’s biggest oil companies liable for rising sea levels and climate change.
Read moreAmid outrage over the Trump administration’s plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday threatened to subpoena a Justice Department official who did not appear to testify before the committee.
Read moreAtlanta-based King & Spalding on Tuesday announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is returning to the firm where she began her legal career more than 30 years ago.
Read moreSkewering a government report that is supposed to substantiate the so-called travel ban, a pair of civil rights advocacy groups claim in a federal complaint that the deliberately deceptive study has been key to supporting a biased agenda.
Read moreBolstering its ranks to handle what it called a “border crisis,” the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday announced it has hired additional prosecutors to handle immigration cases along the southwest border.
Read moreLos Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to sign on as a plaintiff in California’s lawsuit opposing the inclusion of a question in the 2020 Census that will ask residents about their residency status.
Read moreDeputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday lashed out at Republican allies of President Donald Trump who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying the Justice Department won’t be extorted or give in to threats.
Read moreA Panasonic subsidiary received a $280 million slap from the U.S. government on Monday for hiding payments to consultants and foreign sales agents who performed dubious work for the company.
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Investors claim in a class action that Live Nation Entertainment Inc. failed to abide by the terms of a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent the ticket giant’s monopolization of the live music promotion and ticketing market.
Read moreAs the AT&T antitrust trial winds down, the government made a final push Monday to discredit claims by the communication giant that its $85 billion merger with Time Warner will result in $2.5 billion in cost savings and additional revenue.
Read moreAT&T’s chief executive Randall Stephenson rigorously defended his company’s proposed $85 billion merger with Time Warner on Thursday, calling the government’s argument that it would harm competition “absurd.”
Read moreCiting the need to check the potential “tyranny” of the executive branch, the Seventh Circuit upheld a nationwide preliminary injunction Thursday blocking U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attempt to financially punish so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to enforce federal immigration laws.
Read moreThe Justice Department’s inspector general has sent a criminal referral about fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe to federal prosecutors in Washington, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Read moreThe FBI tapped a slew of agency veterans for new executive appointments Friday morning even as the call by Republicans for a leadership purge at the bureau and the Department of Justice ratchet up to a crescendo.
Read moreSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller requested that a less redacted version of an August memo between he and acting deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein be submitted under seal, according to a motion filed Thursday evening.
Read moreA federal judge in California ruled Wednesday that the Justice Department cannot withhold grant funding from cities and counties that do not comply with its immigration policies, and imposed a nationwide injunction on the feds’ actions.
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