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.
A federal judge recuses herself from the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Georgia’s voter rolls after it questioned her ties to Trump’s former prosecutor there.
California Governor Newsom says Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife as he weighs a 2028 presidential run.
The Supreme Court declines to revive Carter Page’s lawsuit against former FBI director Comey over the 2016 Russia-probe surveillance, after the administration paid Page $1.25 million in April.
The FBI searches a voting-rights group’s Cleveland offices and seizes staff devices statewide without saying what crime it suspects, five months before the midterm elections.
Trump picks his own hush-money appeal lawyer James McDonald to run the powerful Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office.
A federal judge permanently blocks Trump’s $1.78 billion fund to pay January 6 rioters, saying she does not trust officials who refused to disavow it under oath.
Justice Department approves Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing a merger that puts CBS and CNN under one Trump-allied owner.
Vance Boelter pleads guilty to murdering former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting state Senator John Hoffman, avoiding the death penalty.
Judge warns Justice Department not to play possum over the $1.8 billion fund Trump’s administration created to settle Trump’s own lawsuit.
FBI serves search warrant at the aerospace plant whose overheating chemical tank forced 50,000 Californians from their homes over Memorial Day weekend.
Justice Department drops assault charges against a St. Paul man ICE agents shot at after five of six agents contradicted the official account.
Justice Department declares 50-year-old discrimination rules unconstitutional, making it harder for workers to sue employers whose hiring practices disproportionately harm minorities.
Vance refers Minnesota Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison to the Justice Department for criminal fraud investigation, the second federal probe targeting Walz this year.
Georgia Republicans seek to impeach Judge Eleanor Ross as the Justice Department pushes to remove her from its voter roll case against the state.
Trump’s Justice Department killed a criminal pollution investigation into the coal empire of Republican Senator Jim Justice, a close Trump ally.
Trump formally nominates his former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general, sending the choice to the Senate.
Trump pardons former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer for insider trading, the same week his administration touts a fraud crackdown on Democratic-run states.
Justice Department tells a federal court it won’t proceed with Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund while urging the judge not to block it.
FBI fires five analysts behind retracted 2023 Catholic-extremism memo, latest purge under Director Kash Patel.
Justice Department opens multiple investigations into California’s elections after Trump claims without evidence that Democrats are stealing the primary vote count.
Senate rejects Schumer’s motion to permanently kill Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate January 6 rioters, 49 to 50, as three Republicans cross over.
Trump’s former national security adviser Bolton agrees to plead guilty to retaining national security information, six years after Trump called for his prosecution.
DHS Secretary Mullin appears to undercut his agency’s year-long fight to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, telling senators the US would be “happy to send him” to Costa Rica instead.
Chicago US Attorney Boutros admits he personally addressed a grand jury before it indicted immigration protesters on a third attempt.
DHS Secretary Mullin restores ICE officer training to 584 hours, reversing a cut made during last year’s hiring surge.
Trump tells the Supreme Court he will appeal the $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she said he sexually assaulted her in 1996.
The Pentagon hires Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to storming the Capitol on January 6, into a sensitive office running counterterrorism and hostage rescue missions.
