As President Trump claims expansive and disputed powers, his administration has curbed the influential Office of Legal Counsel. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage has been writing about presidential ...

The Office of Legal Counsel issues opinions that are supposed to bind the executive branch. The Trump administration has taken steps and made claims in tension with several of them.

One significant guardrail has been the highly respected Office of Legal Counsel. Under Trump and Bondi, the office has been ...

Sean Donahue’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel advanced on a party-line ...

The Justice Department is sharply criticizing a judge who halted enforcement of a White House executive order meant to punish ...

"Perhaps, for the first time in any Government brief to this Court—the Government impugns its own counsel, whose candor the ...

As Trump administration lawyers assess whether it is legally viable to send American citizens who have committed violent ...

The Office of General Counsel (OGC) protects the legal interests ... The Smithsonian Institution is represented in litigation by the Department of Justice and the Offices of the United States Attorney ...

At least 10 people signed a letter complaining about interim U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr.'s conduct based on his social ...

On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ... 2020 memo from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel said that ...

A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children in the United States ... which include the Department of Health ...

A group of attorneys -- including a former judge, former member of Congress, and several January 6 prosecutors -- have signed ...