Federal judge dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Mexico voter rolls with Social Security numbers, one of 14 such lawsuits yet to yield any data.
New York Times moves to quash grand jury subpoenas FBI agents served at three reporters’ homes demanding they name confidential sources.
Trump fires the U.S. attorney federal judges appointed in Seattle less than an hour after his swearing-in, without responding to two weeks of outreach.
Senate hearings for Trump’s attorney general and spy chief nominees turn contentious in one day, spanning the weaponization fund, Epstein redactions, and 2020 election denial.
Justice Department subpoenas 13 top law firms for their communications with Trump’s personal lawyer while asking a judge to shield the White House’s own records.
Hegseth creates a Pentagon-DOJ task force to prosecute leakers, over a year after sharing airstrike timing in Signal chats with his wife and brother.
Justice Department tells Milwaukee its ban on masked federal agents is unconstitutional, demanding assurances by July 17 that the city won’t enforce it.
FBI Director Patel runs the New York Times leak investigation from the White House at its direction, hours before four reporters receive grand jury subpoenas.
Judge permanently dismisses Proud Boys leaders’ January 6 seditious conspiracy convictions at DOJ’s request, writing that granting the motion is not agreement with it.
Justice Department subpoenas four New York Times reporters, with agents visiting some homes, after stories revealed the Qatari Air Force One lacks antimissile defenses.
Judge admonishes Chicago US Attorney Boutros for revealing sealed suspect photos at a DOJ press conference while one Tren de Aragua defendant remained at large.
Justice Department sues Maryland over its new law limiting police cooperation with ICE, the 21st federal suit against state sanctuary policies.
Judge quashes DOJ subpoena for personal data on thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers, calling it an arbitrary fishing expedition of staggering breadth.
Southern Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty to federal fraud charges over paying informants inside the KKK, a prosecution it calls political retribution.
The Justice Department admits it accidentally sent Jack Smith’s sealed report to lawyers for the former prosecutor charged with leaking that same report.
The Justice Department tells a federal judge its bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani was baseless, calling charges he misled U.S. investors a foreign matter.
The Justice Department urges state attorneys general to investigate gas price “gouging” after Trump complains prices are not falling fast enough from war-driven highs.
Trump pardons six unnamed people imprisoned for disabling vehicle pollution controls, claiming they were persecuted for “fixing their car.”
Justice Department refuses court-ordered release of more Epstein files, seeking a 60-day delay and arguing the transparency act cannot be privately enforced.
Chicago FBI chief Douglas DePodesta abruptly departs as an official bureau account says anyone “not on board with THIS FBI” under Trump can leave.
FBI assigns 260 additional intelligence analysts to its Georgia 2020 election investigation, an internal memo priority revived by a White House election denier’s referral.
Federal grand jury indicts 67-year-old Olympic canoeist on felony property destruction over Reflecting Pool sealant as Trump blames vandals for his failing $15 million repaint.
A federal judge blocks Virginia’s ban on law enforcement masks hours before it was set to take effect, ruling states cannot regulate how federal agents operate.
The Justice Department sues Virginia over its AR-15 sales ban and California over its Glock restrictions, one day after the Supreme Court took up AR-15 cases.
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor launches a review of more than 1,000 grand jury presentations after misconduct forced dismissal of charges against immigration crackdown protesters.
Former CIA Director Brennan sues the Trump administration to preserve records of its conspiracy investigation against him, saying officials branded him a criminal before charges.
The Trump administration freezes federal funding for New York’s Medicaid fraud unit over too few convictions, the second such suspension this year and part of a campaign focused largely on Democratic-led states.
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified notes from his memoir, a rare win in Trump’s campaign of prosecutions against critics.
A federal judge orders the Justice Department to release unredacted Epstein files by July 2 or justify every withholding, after an independent journalist sued over redactions she calls illegal.
An Associated Press investigation finds the DEA let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills reach New Mexico streets from 2023 to 2025 to build bigger trafficking cases.
Chemours will pay $450 million to settle a decade of illegal “forever chemical” discharges into three rivers, the first federal PFAS-manufacturer deal, which an affected state calls inadequate.
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth’s names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
Trump nominates a lawyer from the firm that handles his taxes to be the IRS’s top attorney, weeks after his administration shielded him from audits.
The Justice Department withdraws subpoenas targeting Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporters in leak probes Trump pushed by handing his AG Iran-war articles marked ‘Treason.’
The Justice Department charges about 450 defendants in a $6.5 billion healthcare fraud crackdown, its largest, with a record number of Medicaid cases.
A federal judge throws out the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Maryland’s confidential voter database, the ninth court to reject the administration’s bid for state voter rolls.
Eight activists get up to 100 years for a Texas ICE-facility attack that wounded a police officer, the first sentences under Trump’s antifa terrorism designation.
A federal judge refuses to disqualify acting Attorney General Blanche and U.S. Attorney Pirro from prosecuting the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect, despite their statements that they could have been victims.
Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas targeting Governor Walz and other Minnesota leaders, ruling the demands were an unconstitutional effort to coerce immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after it warned Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
The Justice Department refuses a judge’s order to swear under oath that Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, calling the demand a separation-of-powers violation.
Judge blocks the Justice Department from releasing Biden’s recorded interviews with his biographer for three weeks while he appeals.
Trump cancels the Senate confirmation hearing for his national intelligence pick to force Congress to first confirm his personal lawyer as Manhattan U.S. attorney.
Virginia defends its July 1 bans on masked federal agents and local ICE cooperation as the Justice Department sues to overturn them.
The Justice Department joins a conservative legal group’s suit to dismantle Evanston’s first-in-the-nation reparations program, calling race-based eligibility unconstitutional.
Congressional staff tour the Texas prison camp where Maxwell got transferred after clearing Trump, but prison officials block questions about her treatment.
New Mexico orders JPMorgan, Google, and two dozen companies to preserve Epstein records, going around a Justice Department it says withholds unredacted files.
Federal prosecutors indict 15 Minnesota anti-ICE protesters on conspiracy charges that allege no specific act of violence, months after dropping half their earlier surge cases.
The FBI arrests five men in four states over an alleged plot to use explosive drones against the White House UFC fights.
The Education Department moves special education oversight to HHS and school civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, advancing its own elimination.
