Federal prosecutors spent a year investigating the daughter of the judge who oversaw Trump’s hush-money conviction, narrowing their sweeping subpoena to a $468 payment.
Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at Trump’s New York campaign rally one week after his confirmation, breaking the department’s political neutrality norm.
Judge Sullivan warns he will hold DOJ lawyers in contempt over Epstein files, citing the Stevens case where he did exactly that.
US attorney confirms FBI tests found no meth in the van of ICE shooting victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo but withholds the results.
Judge dismisses the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, calling the cited incidents too isolated to show institutional civil rights violations.
Pirro convenes a rare special grand jury that can issue reports on Trump critics without indictments after Trump’s rebuke over the Reflecting Pool dismissal.
DOJ tells the DC Council its request that 10 governors withdraw Guard troops is impotent theatrics as the deployment enters a second year.
DOJ arrests far-right extremism expert Heidi Beirich on financial charges in its case against the Southern Poverty Law Center’s KKK informant program.
DOJ declares Trump’s talks with private advisers outside government covered by executive privilege, a shield against subpoenas if Democrats win Congress.
Judge orders DOJ to justify holding an Afghan permanent resident whose lawyers cannot see the classified evidence in the first secret deportation court case.
Senate confirms Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general 50-49, after he killed the $1.8 billion weaponization fund to win holdout Republicans.
Fired federal prosecutor sues DOJ, alleging Bondi dismissed him within 3 hours of a MAGA influencer surfacing his decade-old anti-Trump blog.
The union for career IRS auditors sues to block the audit immunity acting AG Blanche granted Trump’s family, calling the settlement breathtakingly corrupt.
DOJ finds Duke Law intentionally used race in admissions through essay tags correlated with race, threatening suit if the university refuses a settlement.
DOJ and a Louisiana school board end 61 years of desegregation oversight dating to a 1964 suit whose original parent plaintiffs have died.
New Mexico sues DOJ and acting AG Blanche for withholding unredacted Epstein files that reference Zorro Ranch more than 13,000 times.
Judge “reluctantly” grants DOJ’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 prosecution against eight Oath Keepers, writing that the epilogue “excuses criminal acts.”
DOJ pays a 7-figure settlement to a pardoned anti-abortion activist whose clinic-blockade conviction was upheld on appeal, days after killing its weaponization fund.
Prosecutors drop the last 3 Reflecting Pool vandalism cases, blaming the Trump administration’s own rushed contractor as Trump insists “VANDALS” caused the damage.
Senate GOP holdouts Cornyn and Tillis agree to advance Blanche’s attorney general nomination after DOJ puts the weaponization fund’s death in writing.
Trump says Pirro “choked” in dropping Reflecting Pool charges against an Olympian, rejecting his own prosecutor’s 20-page memo finding no evidence of vandalism.
Acting AG Blanche formally kills the $1.8 billion payout fund for Trump’s prosecuted allies to win two GOP holdouts, a day after Trump vowed to revive it.
DOJ demands a New York Times freelancer’s testimony and 2 years of notes to unmask sources on a botched SEAL mission that killed unarmed North Koreans.
Trump vows to revive the $1.8 billion weaponization fund he declared dead 2 days ago, even at the cost of Blanche’s confirmation.
Trump publicly rebukes US Attorney Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool charges after her office admitted a rushed installation, not vandals, caused the damage.
Trump appeals a ruling that his $10 billion IRS lawsuit was a bad-faith vehicle for taxpayer funds and audit immunity, hours after calling the fund dead.
Trump tells his Cabinet the $1.8 billion fund to compensate his prosecuted allies is dead, hours after posting that they deserve payment.
Trump floats withdrawing Blanche’s attorney general nomination until two GOP holdout senators leave office, keeping him in the job as acting.
DOJ seeks its first-ever deportation through a secret-evidence terrorism court dormant since 1996, targeting an Afghan mother tied to a convicted Election Day plotter.
Grassley cancels the committee vote on acting Attorney General Blanche after two GOP senators demand written proof the $1.776 billion weaponization fund is dead.
Federal judge permanently dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Jersey voters’ private data, the 17th district court to reject the administration’s requests.
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill refuses DOJ’s demand for personal data on 6,600 mistakenly registered noncitizens the administration has threatened to deport.
Ex-FBI Director Comey moves to dismiss the felony case over his seashell photo, arguing 86 means eject in every dictionary and the prosecution itself punishes speech.
Biden drops his lawsuit blocking release of his private ghostwriter recordings, clearing DOJ to hand them to House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation.
House Judiciary Chairman Jordan asks the Justice Department to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith for perjury his lawyers say Republicans never asked about.
Appeals court rules 2-1 that DOJ can release Biden’s private ghostwriter recordings to the Heritage Foundation, pausing until Aug. 3 for appeal.
Fired U.S. Attorney Rogoff sues Trump, arguing his removal 54 minutes after judges unanimously appointed him to a Seattle vacancy was illegal.
Justice Department seeks phone records of New York Times reporters’ spouses and one reporter’s mother in its hunt for Qatari jet story sources.
Justice Department investigates whether Chinese-funded Harvard scholarships restricted to foreign students illegally discriminate against Americans, its latest front against the university.
FBI tells agents it will stop investigating ICE confrontations, leaving ICE to police itself, despite official denials, the New York Times reports.
Milwaukee’s city attorney defies a DOJ ultimatum, vowing to prosecute masked federal agents under the city’s law enforcement identification ordinance.
Justice Department activates a secret 1996 terrorist deportation court for the first time, filing a sealed, classified case its own judge called insufficiently thought through.
Federal judge scolds Justice Department lawyers for citing an apparently AI-fabricated case while opposing an ICE detainee’s release petition.
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer calls Blanche abrasive and condescending after the meeting a GOP senator required before voting on his confirmation as attorney general.
Treasury forces out its top tax official after he warned a White House request would break the law barring presidents from directing IRS audits.
Trump orders voter roll purges and criminal probes of intelligence officials in a primetime address airing debunked election claims four months before midterms.
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.
