Justice Department

Yates Condemns Sessions on Criminal Justice Reform

By Aric Jenkins

Justice Department Says Rod Rosenstein Isn't Recusing Himself From Russia Investigation

By Maya Rhodan

DOJ: Trump's Foreign Payments Are Legal

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What to Know About Special Counsel Robert Mueller

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Naming Robert Mueller as Special Counsel Restores the Justice Department's Independence

In one fell swoop

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Meet the Prosecutor at the Center of the Controversy Over Comey's Firing

Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, faces calls to appoint a special prosecutor

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Meet the people behind President Trump and James Comey

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Jeff Sessions Issues New Criminal Charging and Sentencing Policy

'This policy affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency'

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Robert Mueller Was Just Named a Special Counsel. What's That?

Former FBI chief Robert Mueller has taken over the Russia investigation

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Jeff Sessions Won't Say If WikiLeaks Charges Open Up News Organizations to Prosecution

"That's speculative and I'm not able to comment on that"

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Justice Department Official Leading Trump-Russia Investigation Stepping Down

McCord's departure adds to the relatively lengthy list of vacancies in the Justice Department

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Kellyanne Conway's Husband to Be Nominated to Department of Justice Post

Kellyanne Conway’s husband will be tapped to lead the Justice Department’s civil division, the Wall Street Journal reports.If confirmed, George Conway would be involved in defending the Trump Administration from lawsuits and fighting for Trump’s...

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U.S. Attorney Dismissed by Trump Writes 'Unshackled' Open Letter

Zachary Fardon says he is now “unshackled by the diplomatic constraints" of his position

By Ryan Kilpatrick

FBI Talked to the White House About Its Russia Probe

Calls for investigation from Congress

By Massimo Calabresi

Acting Attorney General Won't Defend President Trump's Immigration Ban

She is not "convinced that the executive order is lawful"

By Mahita Gajanan

President Trump’s Other Big Supreme Court Decision

Chuck Cooper is a veteran of the culture wars with a long legal career arguing hot-button social issues cases before the Supreme Court. In 1982, he wrote a brief on a case arguing in favor...

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Khizr Khan Asks Senate Judiciary Committee to Oppose Sessions

'I urge you to think beyond partisan politics'

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Jeff Sessions Hopes to Escape His History of Racial Controversy at Confirmation Hearing

Few people in Washington ever get a do-over. But on Tuesday, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions will face the same congressional body that denied him a federal judgeship in 1986, this time in hopes of becoming...

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

There's No Such Thing as an Economic Miracle

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Obama Commutes Sentences for 214 Federal Prisoners

It is the most commutations in a single day in more than a century

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