Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to remove all remaining U.S. attorneys appointed during the Biden administration, an apparent effort to eliminate prosecutors who might push back against his agenda.
A federal judge in Manhattan appears unlikely to rubber-stamp the Justice Department’s request to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams just weeks before his trial.
The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases after a tense standoff over protecting agent identities.
A top Justice Department official assured FBI agents they wouldn’t be fired for working on Jan. 6 investigations and accused bureau leaders of insubordination for initially refusing to release their names.
In his final days in office, President Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates, aiming to correct what he saw as unjustly long prison terms for drug offenses.
The Justice Department has officially dropped all criminal charges against two co-defendants of former President Trump in the Florida classified documents case, eliminating any legal jeopardy they faced
The acting attorney general, James McHenry, fired more than a dozen prosecutors who had worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump, claiming they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said Monday.
The Trump administration is moving to suspend agreements aimed at reforming police departments where the Justice Department identified systemic misconduct, according to a memo issued on Wednesday.
