A small tweak to an email encouraging federal employees to take a buyout indicates the Justice Department wouldn’t vouch for ...

Kash Patel has been nominated by President Trump to lead the FBI, pending Senate confirmation. Patel, who has a controversial history with the FBI and CIA, has served in various roles including as ...

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

The Trump Justice Department’s top political appointee told all 93 US attorneys he’s recruiting their line prosecutors for ...

One of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's most prominent staff attorneys is joining the Trump administration as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

The federal funding freeze, rescinded after a judge paused it, is the latest episode in the president’s attempts to extend ...

President Donald Trump has appealed his hush money conviction, seeking to erase the verdict that made him the first person with a criminal record to win the office.

A top law firm is representing the president as he appeals his conviction in the one criminal case that went to trial before ...

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping ...

President Donald Trump is making a concerted effort to fill the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with staunch loyalists.

Watchdog groups were ready to challenge DOGE from the start under the assumption it would fall under the legal rules ...