Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

A suspected member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua who was wanted in connection to charges out of Aurora, Colorado, was arrested during a federal immigration crackdown in New York City on Tuesday morning.

The Justice Department has had discussions about the future of the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The Department of Justice has moved to dismiss the case against former U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry from Nebraska.

Senior Justice Department officials and federal prosecutors in Manhattan have held talks about dropping the corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, the New York Times reported on Wednesday,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to re-assign him to a new role working on immigration issues, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Civil rights groups and legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges.

The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida, foreclosing the chance the case against them could ever be revived.

The Justice Department under President Donald Trump moved to drop an appeal by former special counsel Jack Smith in his classified documents case, tying up one of the final loose ends in the case.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order promising “immediate action” from federal law enforcement against noncitizen college students and others in the United States who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations during Israel’s war in Gaza.

On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were scrambling to finish their business. The conversation I was there to have with Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke was out of place amid the haste. It was, after all, nearly 104 years in the making.