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.
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.
