The acting attorney general fired the officials because he doubted they "could be trusted to faithfully implement the President’s agenda," a Justice Department official told USA TODAY.
Four days after President Donald Trump took office, the Justice Department is restricting prosecutions for interfering with access to reproductive health clinics. In a memo obtained by USA TODAY ...
Among the U.S.A.I.D. employees put on paid leave ... in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the bureaucracy. Justice Dept.: At the Justice Department’s headquarters, lawyers who ...
The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's ...
The mass firings are a warning shot aimed at bringing others in the department to heel. Every president at some point during ...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against ...
At the department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, lawyers described the uncertainty that has rippled across the agency ...
DOJ directive released on Friday states it will limit enforcement of federal law to cases involving death, injury or serious ...
The firings come as a Trump appointee opened an internal review of the department’s decision to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 ...
Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside ...
T he Department of Justice has officially abandoned its prosecution of Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, two of the ...