Justice Department reportedly hires a lawyer who pleaded guilty to hacking Florida election websites to monitor elections, as it plans 1,000 midterm monitors.
Trump dines with Anthropic CEO Amodei as he rejects AI regulation, saying if companies don’t fix problems, “that’s why you have the Department of Justice.”
Former White House election security director Olsen, who sparked the FBI’s Fulton County ballot seizure, leaves Miami prosecutors running “grand conspiracy” probe of Trump foes, CNN reports.
FBI co-deputy director Bailey resigns citing family, after a year of going long stretches without speaking to Director Patel, NYT reports.
Prosecutor in failed case against six Chicago-area ICE protesters retires, saying US Attorney Boutros ordered her to try again after grand jurors rejected it.
Trump moves to cancel $810 million Congress approved by running out the clock, as Republican Appropriations Chair Collins calls it a “clear violation” of law.
Justice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them “onerous and outdated.”
FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago ask Judge Cannon whether her gag order lets them testify to a grand jury probing officials who investigated Trump.
Hacked FBI data ties named staffers to China, Russia and human intelligence work, Reuters finds, as hackers demand the bureau retract a May statement.
Hackers claim they stole home addresses and spouses’ details for all FBI employees and applicants, then deface the bureau’s jobs site.
ProPublica reveals FBI agents sought a pay-to-play probe of Maine Sen. Collins’ dealings with a defense contractor donor before Trump’s purge killed it.
Federal grand jury indicts Utah postal worker accused of dumping over 300 mail ballots in a church parking lot dumpster before June’s primary.
Justice Department defends firing Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, James Comey’s daughter, as a no-cause Article II removal, a firing Laura Loomer demanded weeks earlier.
Trump says Donald Trump Jr. “paid back” the Russian oligarch who bankrolled his wedding party, contradicting the couple’s statement calling it a “wedding gift.”
ICE agent Christian Castro appears in federal court on charges of lying about the Minneapolis shooting, a day after Minnesota arraigned him for the shooting.
Federal judge refuses to declare Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” suit moot, saying officials “contradict themselves all the time” on whether it is dead.
Justice Department declares the federal ban on dealers selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds unconstitutional and will not enforce it while appeals courts remain split.
Federal judge gives Attorney General Blanche eight days to hand over Epstein interview notes and prove redacted names are victims or face contempt.
Trump calls the 2024 Butler shooting a “Democrat Plot” the same day his FBI director testifies the gunman spoke to no one but his parents.
Trump calls his own Supreme Court appointees “not the people I interviewed” after the mail-ballot loss, but Attorney General Blanche says the administration will comply.
Federal judge refers Philadelphia District Attorney Krasner for criminal investigation, saying he may have pushed prosecutors to give a false account in a murder case.
FBI Director Patel won’t rule out agents at Election Day polls or say whether 2020 was rigged, yelling at a senator pressing him on interference.
Trump loyalist diGenova subpoenas former CIA Director Brennan to a grand jury in Judge Cannon’s Fort Pierce courthouse one day before quitting the “grand conspiracy” probe.
Justice Department sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC over in-state tuition for undocumented students, completing suits against every state with such laws, 25 total.
Justice Department appeals ruling that dismissed Trump’s IRS suit as collusive, 40 days after Attorney General Blanche killed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to win confirmation.
Justice Department deports Afghan permanent resident in first case ever decided by secret terrorism court dormant since 1996, on classified evidence her lawyers never saw.
Federal judge keeps Phoenix-area sheriff’s office under court monitoring in Arpaio-era racial profiling case, rejecting Justice Department-backed bid to end it over 46 unmet reforms.
Justice and Education departments accuse UC Berkeley Law of favoring Black applicants over white and Asian ones, at a school where 51 of 1,128 students are Black.
Joe diGenova, 81, resigns as head of the Justice Department’s “grand conspiracy” probe of Trump’s foes without charging anyone, with department leaders faulting his pace, NBC reports.
Justice Department warns 29 states and DC of criminal sanctions if they destroy 2024 election records, after repeated court losses over demands for their voter data.
Federal appeals court in Richmond becomes the ninth to reject Trump’s no-bond detention policy, ruling immigrants already living in the US are entitled to bond hearings.
Justice Department subpoenas witnesses before a grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district, escalating its year-long effort to prove the intelligence community conspired against Trump.
Prosecutors admit in court they have no evidence Olympian Davey Hearn damaged the Reflecting Pool yet fight a permanent dismissal, as Trump keeps claiming vandalism.
Justice Department antitrust official orders a “Pause on Canada” in cooperation during the tariff fight, then calls it a mistake after The Wall Street Journal reports it.
Justice Department sends Nevada 7 FBI subpoenas for voter data after judges tossed its lawsuit demanding the same files, one of 23 rejected.
Federal magistrate orders Justice Department to name who conceived its scrapped $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” for people claiming unfair prosecution, rejecting weeks of resistance.
ICE agent Christian Castro pleads not guilty to 6 counts of lying about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis and goes free on $75,000 bond.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer sues Justice Department, saying it ousted her in 2025 for refusing to fake an “independent review” restoring domestic-violence convict Mel Gibson’s gun rights.
Justice Department charges ICE agent Christian Castro with lying about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one day after ProPublica reported it blocked civil rights charges against him.
Justice Department blocks civil rights charges against ICE agent Christian Castro, who shot a Venezuelan immigrant through a Minneapolis door, over the prosecutor’s “strongest possible” objections, ProPublica reports.
Justice Department declares all agencies in every state must report suspected undocumented immigrants or risk future welfare funds, reinterpreting a 1996 law prior administrations applied only to benefits offices.
Captured Venezuelan leader Maduro asks a Manhattan judge to toss his drug indictment on head-of-state immunity, arguing no US court has ever tried a sitting foreign leader.
Federal judge blocks Trump’s second birthright citizenship order as “almost certainly unconstitutional,” citing the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against the first 2 months earlier.
Justice Department sides with OpenAI against The New York Times, arguing a copyright win for news publishers would “threaten national security” and subsidize “old mainstream media.”
Federal judge rejects Justice Department’s bid to break up Google’s ad tech business, ordering behavior changes instead, 16 months after ruling it an illegal monopoly.
Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students’ transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Trump administration shuts 270 trucking schools it says helped undocumented immigrants get commercial licenses, 110 of them tied to over 5,000 drivers who failed English tests.
Justice Department settles its 2020 lawsuit against Walmart for $50 million over pharmacies that filled pill-mill opioid prescriptions their own pharmacists had flagged.
Wyoming’s Republican governor asks the state attorney general to investigate “aggressive” Justice Department election monitors who tried to inspect tabulators and interview voters during the primary.
