The Justice Department wants prosecutors to step up punishment for protesters using charges like sedition — which carries a 20-year sentence. Legal experts say it’s an attempt to quell protests that will likely fizzle.
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The Department of Justice considered federal charges for city of Portland officials over their response to ongoing protests against police brutality, and over the city’s refusal to allow local police to communicate directly with federal agents deployed there.
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In a highly unusual move on Tuesday, the Department of Justice moved to swap the U.S. government for President Donald Trump in a lawsuit filed by his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf will be expected to appear in federal court, a Washington judge warned Wednesday, if the Trump administration once again goes back on its word on plans to deport a former Colombian paramilitary leader who fears persecution in his homeland.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s suit against Volkswagen arising from the Dieselgate emissions scandal, finding that the Department of Justice “had the power to and did release” the agency’s civil claims arising out of asset-backed securities offerings.
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The en banc D.C. Circuit showed little patience Tuesday for the lawyer fighting to get Michael Flynn’s prosecution dismissed without a study of the government’s motives.
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A federal judge Thursday paved the way for thousands of asylum seekers to challenge the Trump administration’s block to the immigration process at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border by certifying a class action.
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The Justice Department proposed Wednesday that a Virginia jail comply with a consent decree requiring officials to improve medical treatment for inmates, marking one of the first times the department has proposed such a resolution in the Trump administration.
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The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversight and a 2012 lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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As Senate Republicans continue investigations into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates on Wednesday defended the decision to investigate former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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A week after a federal judge ordered Michael Cohen’s release, federal prosecutors asked Thursday to close the case and agreed to abandon the gag order that sparked the First Amendment battle.
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Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday defended the Trump administration’s use of federal agents to respond to racial justice protests, as Democrats accused him of seeking conflict in the streets and using the Justice Department to aid the president’s re-election bid.
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Gathered in the small assembly hall in Little Rock, Arkansas, their chairs spaced 6 feet apart, the business leaders listen admiringly to the nation’s chief law enforcement official.
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Alabama prisons have a pattern of using excessive force against male inmates, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in an investigation released Thursday, as it again accused the state of keeping prisoners in unconstitutional conditions.
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The New York Times and its reporter Charlie Savage sued the Department of Justice in a federal FOIA complaint for information on the DOJ’s lawsuit against Omarosa Manigault Newman seeking a fine of $50,000 after she published a book critical of President Trump, which “has raised the question of whether and how White House officials influenced the Justice Department decision to bring legal action against a Trump critic.”
Read moreFollowing a group of nonprofit legal groups seeking to intervene earlier this week, the Justice Department asked a federal judge Thursday to decertify the class in the Flores class action that deals with the detention of immigrant children and terminate the settlement agreement.
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Attorneys for news outlets suing for records from the Mueller investigation accused the Justice Department on Thursday of applying redactions that back up President Donald Trump’s echoing claim of the probe being a “witch hunt.”
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President Donald Trump buckled down on his campaign message of law and order on Wednesday, announcing federal agents will surge into cities across America as part of his administration’s effort to combat rising crime.
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Calling it possible that the clearing of protesters outside the White House last month was illegal, the ACLU urged Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday to appoint a special prosecutor.
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Three immigration courts reopened Monday as the government extended its push to restart the system despite rising coronavirus cases in states where many of the small, enclosed courtrooms are.
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