Attorney General Merrick Garland didn’t have to say any names when he warned against threatening election workers because those threats are coming from Donald Trump and his supporters.
The Department of Justice has notified Speaker Mike Johnson that it won’t prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland for contempt of Congress because Garland didn’t commit a crime.
The Biden Department of Justice has proposed a rule to clarify that there are actually no loopholes to the requirements for license and background checks in firearms dealing. There was never a loophole.
The Department of Justice just filed a lawsuit against Governor Abbott to force Texas to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande and the Biden administration blasted Abbott for not working toward real solutions.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has responded to Trump’s 2024 campaign announcement by appointing a special counsel to investigate the former president.
A group of Justice Department prosecutors believes that they have enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
The Justice Department told the court that it believed that Trump may still be holding classified documents,
Attorney General Merrick Garland responded to attacks from Trump and his supporters by filing a motion in court to unseal the search warrant.
The section of the DOJ that is investigating Trump’s theft of classified documents handles national security issues, espionage, and sabotage.
The DOJ is reportedly getting closer to Trump, as numerous cabinet officials are cooperating with the criminal probe into 1/6.
Trump thought that he could avoid prosecution by declaring himself a candidate for president, but Attorney General Merrick Garland put an end to that.
Former Trump White House attorney Eric Herschmann to Jeff Clark: “You just admitted your first step you would take as AG would be committing a felony. You’re clearly the right candidate for this job.”
Agents conducted court authorized law enforcement activity Wednesday morning at two locations, FBI officials confirmed to The Washington Post. One was the home of Brad Carver, a Georgia lawyer who allegedly signed a document claiming to be a Trump elector. The other was the Virginia home of Thomas Lane, who worked on the Trump campaign’s efforts in Arizona and New Mexico. The FBI officials did not identify the people associated with those addresses, but public records list each of the locations as the home addresses of the men.
Separately, at least some of the would-be Trump electors in Michigan also received subpoenas on Wednesday, according to a person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. But it was not immediately clear whether that activity was related to a federal probe or a state-level criminal inquiry.
The Department of Justice is criminally investigating Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and others as part of the fake elector scheme.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he and DOJ investigators are watching all of the 1/6 Committee hearings.
The Justice Department has announced in a statement that they will review the police response in Uvalde.
The thousands of texts obtained by CNN from the 1/6 attack period are leading to calls for Trump and his staff to be investigated for sedition.
Merrick Garland and the DOJ have been subpoenaing former officials in Trump’s orbit about the rally that led to the Capitol attack.
Attorney General Merrick Garland didn’t get specific at his press conference, but he sent a clear message to those at the top of the 1/6 plot.
The Justice Department has sued Texas for a second time in a month over a new election map that discriminates against Latinos and other minorities.
The Justice Department signaled that it won’t defend Republican Representative Mo Brooks and their reasoning suggests they might not defend Trump either for their alleged part in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The AP and Government Executive issued a correction to their stories about Merrick Garland, turns out it was none other than Trump’s AG Bill Barr who “declined” to prosecute Wilbur Ross.
The only way to stop the next Trump administration is to prosecute the last one.
It is time for executing justice; not protecting corruption and treason.
In a letter to Attorney General Garland, House Judiciary Democrats urged him to reverse the DOJ’s position and stop defending Trump.
The Bill Barr Justice Department on Monday continued to intervene on Donald Trump’s behalf in a decades-old rape allegation.
The U.S. intelligence community warned the White House that Giuliani is being used by the Russians to feed misinformation to Donald Trump.
At least one attempt by Donald Trump to use his Department of Justice to go after his political rivals has flopped.
The United States has had over 6 million COVID-19 cases. The death count from those cases is nearing 200,000 and the country is regularly seeing over 1,000 deaths a day. Americans have also been waiting on a decision about expanded unemployment benefits since the end of July. Since Republicans in the House seemingly have nothing…
Time and again, Barr has made it clear that the current DOJ exists solely to protect the corrupt president, not to defend the rule of law.
Barr repeatedly denied having any knowledge about cases involving Trump’s corrupt allies, from Michael Flynn to Roger Stone to Michael Cohen.
Attorney General William Barr is systematically removing U.S. attorneys who are connected to investigations that touch on Donald Trump.
According to a memo obtained by The Washington Post, Attorney General William Barr has created a task force to take on “anti-government extremists” who have “engaged in indefensible acts of violence designed to undermine public order,” a response to “the violence that has sometimes marked nationwide protests against police brutality and racism.” “Among other lawless…
From meddling in Trump-related cases to pushing the president’s conspiracy theories, William Barr is Trump’s new fixer, not America’s attorney general.
The American people deserve to know why Bill Barr sought to replace this specific U.S. attorney five months before a critical presidential election.
President Donald Trump attacked former President Barack Obama, launching into an “Obamagate” conspiracy after news outlets obtained a tape of a web talk between the former president and members of the Obama Alumni Association in which he said the “rule of law is at risk” in the United States after it emerged the Justice Department…
Last week Trump’s yes-man running the DOJ issued instructions to federal attorneys detailing their new job entailed serving as Inquisitors for the religious right in their Crusade to rule America. In this case the Crusade officially begins by using the Federal government, in concert with fundamentalist Christian conservatives, to punish state officials who dare to hold…
Bill Barr also blamed his critics for being upset about the Department of Justice’s decision to drop charges against Flynn.
If there is one thing the American people have learned over the past few years, it’s that Donald Trump demands loyalty – not to the country but to himself.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is preventing President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing its Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, for asylum-seekers to stay in the country. Restrictions remain in place until March 11 for review by the Supreme Court. The ruling only applies to Arizona and…
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said Trump is still very much obsessed with her and former FBI head of counterintelligence Peter Strzok.
It’s always been laughable to suggest that the man who ran a fake university and a slush fund charity somehow cares about the rule of law.
Trump and Barr could try to use the DOJ to prevent the release of the president’s tax returns – even if SCOTUS rules that they should be disclosed.
Since the spineless GOP refused to do its job in the impeachment trial, it’s up to the American people to save the republic from a lawless president.
Bill Barr is fine with his department being used to protect the president’s friends and go after his enemies; he just doesn’t want Trump to tweet about it.
Donald Trump continued to trample all over the rule of law on Tuesday and Attorney General William Barr happily indulged him.
Over the past 24 hours, Donald Trump and William Barr have been busy creating what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called a rule of law emergency.
It’s starting to look like Rudy Giuliani and William Barr are joining forces to dig up dirt on Donald Trump’s election year political opponents.
Bill Barr is bending over backward to protect Donald Trump, and in the process, he’s burning the Justice Department to the ground.
With the nation’s attention fixed on the Ukraine scandal, it’s easy to forget that Bill Barr is running similar pressure campaigns all around the globe.
The DOJ has gone so far off the deep end that Bill Barr is now trashing his own inspector general report to please Donald Trump.
The corrupt president has used the Department of Justice as his political weapon, and William Barr has been happy to cooperate from day one.
Thursday’s reporting sealed the deal that the DOJ is officially dead and won’t be coming back as long as this president is in the White House.
Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are at the center of Donald Trump’s growing pile of criminal behavior.
“Mr. Barr and the Department of Justice’s job in their mind is to protect the president,” he told reporters. “And it doesn’t matter if that violates the laws.”
It’s the latest instance of Trump profiting from his office, despite his bogus claims that he is losing a bundle of money by being president.
The Democratic lawmaker said the committee he sits on will take Mueller’s testimony as an opportunity to expose the president’s crimes.
The former federal prosecutor listed at least seven ways Trump’s protectors at the Justice Department are trying to silence the special counsel.
The Donald Trump-William Barr Justice Department is trying to control what special counsel Robert Mueller says in his public testimony this week.
Donald Trump never shies away from getting his head in front of the cameras and rambling incoherent nonanswers to reporters. Today he did.
William Barr’s credibility evaporated almost immediately upon taking over as Donald Trump’s attorney general at the Justice Department.
The U.S. Justice Department’s watchdog will investigate the role of the FBI and Justice Department in a reversal of plans to move FBI headquarters to the Washington suburbs, Democratic congressional leaders said on Wednesday.
The Trump Justice Department made the case in court this week, and the judges hearing the arguments were clearly in disbelief.
Under William Barr, the Department of Justice – which exists to protect the rule of law in the U.S. – has become a complete joke.
Buttigieg said he will restore the DOJ to its pre-Trump state as an entity that defends the rule of law, not acts as an extension of the Oval Office.
Trump has shown that this decades-old guideline barring criminal presidents from being indicted most definitely needs to be revised.
Schiff said Barr’s approval of Trump’s tax return cover-up is the latest example of how far the DOJ has fallen under this attorney general.
The DOJ announced that it would ignore subpoenas for documents related to a controversial move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Barr is free to take a job with Fox News, but his conduct and rhetoric show that he has no business being the attorney general.
President Trump is funneling $62 million of taxpayer funded farm aid to a foreign, Brazilian owned meatpacking company, which is owned by two billionaire majority GOP donor brothers who just so happen to be under investigation by the Department of Justice after the brothers admitted to bribing politicians to obtain benefits for their businesses.
The White House has decided to tell former White House counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents relating to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing an interview with White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is headed for a showdown on Monday with Democrats in Congress, as lawmakers prepared to begin contempt proceedings against the top U.S. law enforcement officer if he fails to hand over the full, unredacted Mueller report.
President Donald Trump has the right to instruct advisers not to testify before congressional oversight probes related to the Russia investigation, the White House said in a letter that blasts Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report as defective.
U.S. House Democrats threatened on Thursday to hold Attorney General William Barr in “contempt of Congress” for not complying with a subpoena to hand over an unredacted version of the Mueller report. What does that mean?
When Attorney General William Barr refused to appear at a hearing in the U.S. Congress on Thursday, one Democrat decided it was thigh time to act against what he saw as fowl behavior.
There is no other way to put this: William Barr lied under oath when he said he didn’t know how Mueller felt about his handling of the Russia report.
They cited, among many ethical and legal issues, Barr’s decision not to recuse himself, whether his non-summary summary was misleading, whether his conduct with respect to the report complied with DOJ practices, and whether he has demonstrated sufficient impartiality to continue overseeing the 14 criminal matters referred to other components of the DOJ and FBI.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler tore William Barr to shreds for acting as a spin master for Donald Trump.
Trump’s legal team has been able to get out in front of the Mueller report – which is expected to be damning – and craft a rebuttal with Barr’s help.
LEESBURG, Va. (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi castigated Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday for comments he made during congressional hearings this week about the federal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. “Let me just say, I’m very, very dismayed and disappointed that the chief law enforcement officer of…
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday he would look into whether U.S. agencies illegally spied on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, bringing criticism from Democrats who accused him of promoting a conspiracy theory.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called on Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday to retract his statement that U.S. agencies spied on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “AG Barr admitted he had no evidence to support his claim that spying on the Trump campaign ‘did occur,’” Schumer said in a Twitter post….
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee said it will vote on Wednesday on whether to authorize subpoenas to obtain Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Lawmakers will also consider subpoenas for underlying evidence from Mueller’s investigation and from five former aides…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved President Donald Trump‘s attorney general nominee, William Barr, and sent him on to the full Senate for a final confirmation vote. The committee voted along party lines. Republicans praised Barr as well qualified, while Democrats who voted against him said they were concerned he…
he U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday postponed a vote on President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, William Barr, as Democrats expressed concern that he might not make public a final report on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
When hearings start on Tuesday, Democrats in the Senate shouldn’t just roll over and accept William Barr’s prepared testimony.
Over 400 former DOJ alumni oppose Trump’s appointee Matthew Whitaker to replace the unjustly ousted Jeff Sessions, because Whitaker has not been vetted.
President Donald Trump’s pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, is a close friend of Trump’s 2016 election campaign co-chair, and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign.
Not only should the new acting attorney general recuse himself from the Russia investigation; he should be removed altogether.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has resigned in anticipation of being fired by President Donald Trump, Axios news site reported. Rosenstein verbally resigned to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the report said, citing an unidentified source with knowledge of the matter. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. “He’s…
The threat of being impeached stopped Trump dead in his tracks after he planned to declassify several important documents related to the Russia investigation.
The man charged with killing a counter-protester during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year has also been charged by federal authorities with hate crimes, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
No true person of faith would see the images coming from the southern border and think it’s okay.
Former FBI Director James Comey made a “serious error of judgment” when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server, the Justice Department’s internal watchdog said on Thursday.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it was planning to ramp up efforts to bring more civil rights lawsuits against municipalities that try to discriminate against houses of worship. The new initiative, outlined by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, marks the latest action in the Trump administration’s efforts…
The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday that the part of Obamacare requiring individuals to have health insurance is unconstitutional, an unusual move that could lead to stripping away some of the most significant and popular parts of the law.
On January 6, 2017, between Donald Trump winning the presidential election and his being sworn in, our nation’s intelligence community issued a document clearly outlining how Russia, at the directive of the President of that nation, interfered with our election, favoring Donald Trump. When asked by a reporter yesterday, whether the Department of Homeland Security…
Donald Trump said on Thursday the hands-off approach he has taken to the U.S. Justice Department given the probe into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia could change, comments that could re-ignite concerns he might move to impede the investigation.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday declined to say during a congressional hearing whether he would recuse himself from an investigation involving Michael Cohen, the personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, but said he continued to honor his recusal agreement for campaign-related issues.
Several rumors continue circulating that Mr. Trump wants to fire the Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice, Rod Rosenstein, or Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, with reports by major media outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times, confirming such speculation. And despite these speculations, Republicans seem content to march…