Justice Department drops case against ex-Rep. Jeff Fortenberry
Fortenberry represented Nebraska until resigning in 2022 following an initial conviction in a jury trial in California. That ...
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US v. Brown: District of Columbia Circuit Rules on Compelled Biometric Unlocking of Cellphones
On January 17, the District of Columbia Circuit issued a pivotal opinion regarding the Fifth Amendment rights of a defendant-appellant compelled ...
Trump DOJ shake-up sidelines top prosecutors in national security, adds new US attorneys in DC and New York
New leaders at the Justice Department, which has been a center of President Donald Trump’s ire, have moved quickly to ...
Trump's new D.C. prosecutor launches review of key charge leveled against Jan. 6 defendants
The acting U.S. attorney said he wants to "get to the bottom" of why an obstruction charge was used against some of the ...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Freeze of Federal Grant Funds
A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in ...
Trump pardoned the January 6 convicts. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet
As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of ...
All January 6-related prisoners released under President Trump's order: US Marshals
All individuals held in the D.C. jail on charges and convictions related to the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol have been ...
Career US Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigns
Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other ...
US Justice Department freezes its civil rights litigation
The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the ...