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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.
T. Elliot Gaiser will be nominated to lead the influential Office of Legal Counsel, a department official said.
The DOJ’s thinking on Trump’s federal cases flows from a 2000 memo by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel ... conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official ...
A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to temporarily stop funding legal education programs for people ...
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 ...
Sean Donahue’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel advanced on a party-line ...