Federal prison knowingly allowed sick inmates to expose others to coronavirus
The Bureau of Prisons continues to struggle with an exploding number of coronavirus cases in its prisons.
By Associated Press - November 21, 2020The Bureau of Prisons continues to struggle with an exploding number of coronavirus cases in its prisons.
By Associated Press - November 21, 2020A federal judge reminded the Department of Justice that it could not defend Trump in a personal defamation lawsuit.
By Emily Singer - November 20, 2020The Biden transition team includes a lot of experienced, and out, LGBTQ staffers.
By Casey Quinlan - November 12, 2020The attorney general is once again bending to Donald Trump’s whims — this time to help try to steal the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - November 10, 2020A federal judge smacked down Trump’s request to have the United States replace him as the defendant in a sexual assault case.
By Associated Press - October 27, 2020Barr is rejecting longstanding practices intended to maintain the integrity of elections.
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 08, 2020Barr compared career attorneys who don’t want him intervening in Trump’s cases to ‘preschoolers.’
By Emily Singer - September 17, 2020It’s likely to deepen concerns that the Justice Department is functioning as a private law firm for Trump
By Associated Press - September 10, 2020The Justice Department is intervening to act as Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges that Trump raped her.
By Emily Singer - September 09, 2020Attorney General William Barr’s claims that China is a bigger election threat than Russia and about mail ballot fraud are not based in reality.
By Associated Press - September 07, 2020The judge is seeking information on what the clemency order covers.
By Associated Press - July 13, 2020Geoffrey Berman’s firing is seen as yet another instance of Trump politicizing the Justice Department.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2020The Department of Justice claimed in a lawsuit that John Bolton had divulged classified information in his upcoming book.
By Josh Israel - June 18, 2020A civil liberties lawyer says the suit is ‘doomed to fail.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2020The Justice Department dropped Trump ally Michael Flynn’s case, despite the fact that he pleaded guilty.
By Oliver Willis - May 18, 2020The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.
By Associated Press - May 07, 2020Common Cause is pushing the Justice Department and House Ethics Committee to probe the Florida Republican’s lease arrangement with a donor.
By Emily Singer - April 22, 2020Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about dealings with Russia’s ambassador before Trump took office.
By Associated Press - March 16, 2020The Judiciary Committee is requesting interviews with career prosecutors after Attorney General William Barr intervened in Roger Stone’s sentencing process.
By Josh Israel - February 28, 2020‘What Trump is suggesting is at odds with this longstanding precedent and dangerous to the principle of impartial justice.’
By Associated Press - February 19, 2020Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Lindsey Graham, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy say questions about Barr’s impartiality are ‘unfounded.’
By Emily Singer - February 18, 2020The Federal Judges Association called the meeting after Attorney General William Barr overruled his own prosecutors’ sentencing recommendations in the Roger Stone case.
By Josh Israel - February 18, 2020Trump is trying to push the judge to grant Stone a new trial just days before Stone is set to be sentenced.
By Emily Singer - February 18, 2020The officials have called on the attorney general to resign in an online petition.
By Emily Singer - February 17, 2020Trump is under fire for trying to get his longtime friend and ally Roger Stone a lighter sentence.
By Emily Singer - February 14, 2020The Senate majority leader still hasn’t said anything about Trump politicizing the Justice Department.
By Emily Singer - February 13, 2020Trump confirmed the U.S. attorney general is acting as his fixer, rather than a fair and independent law enforcement officer for the country.
By Emily Singer - February 12, 2020Justice Department attorneys have notified the court that they are withdrawing from the case, less than a day after Trump tweeted that their initial sentencing recommendation was ‘unfair.’
By Melanie Schmitz - February 11, 2020An official claims the decision was made before Trump called the nine-year sentencing guideline ‘unfair.’
By Emily Singer - February 11, 2020Federal prosecutors are looking into conditions at four state prisons after the deaths of at least 15 inmates since late December
By Associated Press - February 06, 2020