A union for U.S. immigration judges is blasting an office of the Justice Department for sending its members a news briefing that linked to a blog post containing anti-Semitic language.
Read moreShaking up an agency that has come under increasing scrutiny following the jailhouse death of Jeffry Epstein, Attorney General William Barr appointed a new head Monday to the Bureau of Prisons.
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The Trump administration’s decision to resume federal executions, and to use a single drug with a history of problems to carry them out, prompted the launch of an investigation Wednesday by House Democrats.
Read moreThe Trump administration has taken steps to decertify the union that represents the federal immigration judges who work under the Department of Justice.
Read moreA federal judge refused Tuesday to block to the trial of Greg Craig, former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, on charges that he misled the government about his work on a secret Ukrainian government campaign linked to Paul Manafort.
Read moreFederal prosecutors going back to 1942 took state determinations into account when deciding if criminal convictions against noncitizens should bear on their immigration status.
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The Justice Department has declined to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey over his handling of a series of memos he wrote that documented personal interactions with President Trump, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Read moreSprint agreed Friday to divest parts of its prepaid wireless business for federal approval of its merger plans with T-Mobile.
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Federal inmates on death row will be executed for the first time since 2003, Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday, championing the return to capital punishment as a way to bring “justice to victims of the most horrific crimes.”
Read moreThe Justice Department announced Tuesday it is launching a wide-ranging antitrust probe into some of the nation’s largest tech companies, amid critiques from lawmakers of the power and influence of companies like Facebook and Google.
Read moreNew York Times reporter Ken Vogel has been exploring reporting over Ukraine-related lobbying from many dimensions, but a federal judge forestalled one of the avenues of his research on Monday, warning that journalistic scrutiny “could reveal the existence of law enforcement proceedings that are not officially acknowledged or publicly known.”
Read moreA Microsoft subsidiary agreed Monday to pay more than $26 million to resolve claims that its employees bribed Hungarian government officials to tie up software-licensing deals.
Read moreMore than 3,100 inmates will be released from federal custody Friday as a result of sentencing changes made in the sweeping criminal-justice reform bill that became law in December.
Read moreReversing, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled Friday the Justice Department acted lawfully when it withheld federal grants from Los Angeles for refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Read moreAn attempt by the Department of Justice to withdraw 11 attorneys from the New York phase of the 2020 census litigation is “patently deficient,” a federal judge found in a scathing order Tuesday afternoon, ruling that nine of them will not be able to leave.
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Citing intrusive requests they say border on harassment of President Donald Trump, attorneys for the Justice Department asked the D.C. Circuit to throw out a lawsuit filed by Democratic lawmakers claiming the real estate mogul-turned-president violated the Constitution’s anti-corruption clauses.
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Though critical of newly released information not contained in the indictment, a federal judge said she will not impose sanctions in the criminal case over 2016 election meddling by Russia.
Read moreThe Justice Department is shaking up the legal team fighting for the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census but offered no explanation why the change is being made.
Read moreTrump administration officials said Tuesday they will move forward with the 2020 census without a question asking about respondents’ citizenship, abandoning its quest to add the controversial query after being blocked last week by the Supreme Court.
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