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Trump blasts ‘fake’ final report moments after Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocks DOJ from publishing

Special counsel Jack Smith's team finalizing report on Trump investigations, facing pushback from defense lawyers over impartiality concerns.

Attorney General Merrick Garland praises Justice Department's prosecution of over 1,500 individuals linked to the January 6 US Capitol riot, emphasizing ac...

US Justice Department agreement with Antioch police department following investigation into racist text messages. Antioch PD commits to reform and accounta...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county lockups violated the constitutional rights of people held in jail

[UPDATE 12/26/2024, 7:36 pm: I erroneously titled this post "woman sentenced for …" (likely because I had been reviewing some… The post Woman Pleads Guilty for Threat Left on Voice-Mail of Judge Tanya Chutkan, Who Was Presiding Over Trump's Election Interference Trial appeared first on Reason.com.

Justice Department leaders decided against prosecuting Trump ally — and obstructed congressional ethics probe

The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s nomination to lead the Justice Department

The Justice Department's policies generally require such conferrals, but it is unclear whether standard procedures were followed by the President in today's mass commutations of federal death sentences.