Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to reassign him to a new role working on immigration issues,

The Justice Department has had discussions about the future of the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Two key Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday demanded more information after the Trump administration abruptly fired career prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump, and reassigned others from their positions to a newly created "sanctuary city" working group.

After a tumultuous tenure clouded by two failed criminal prosecutions against the incoming president, Attorney General Merrick Garland is leaving the Justice Department the same way he came in: trying to defend it against political attacks.

The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration

The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.

In President Trump’s first week, the new administration revoked Biden-era Department of Justice policies designed to mitigate harsh sentencing practices and racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on Jan. 20 to remake and reduce the size of America's 2.2 million-strong federal workforce.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment.