Watchdog finds top DOJ officials were 'driving force' behind...
Top officials at the Justice Department were the chief drivers of President Trump's immigration policy mandating the separation of those suspected of crossing the border illegally from their children,...
View ArticleThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Trump's erratic...
Sponsored by Facebook Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. It is Wednesday! We get you up to...
View ArticleEx-deputy attorney general says Justice Dept. 'will ignore'...
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says he expects the Justice Department to “ignore the President’s threats against his political opponents.”Rosenstein reacted to President Trump's comments...
View ArticleTrump turns his ire toward Cabinet members
President Trump is publicly chastising some of his key GOP allies with just more than two weeks to go before the election.Trump earlier this month expressed frustration with a pair of his most loyal...
View ArticleCan Donald Trump pardon himself? The raging political debate goes on
In the debate over pardons, some Democrats seem to be making the case for Donald Trump and against themselves. Consider Andrew Weissmann. After the recent pardons, he declared that Trump effectively...
View ArticleComey argues Trump shouldn't be prosecuted after leaving Oval Office
James Comey, the former FBI director who has emerged as a critic of President Trump since his firing, writes in his new book that the commander in chief should not be prosecuted after leaving the White...
View ArticleRosenstein: Zero tolerance immigration policy 'never should have been...
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said on Thursday that the zero tolerance immigration policy briefly used under the Trump administration “never should have been proposed or...
View ArticleThe trends to watch in white collar enforcement this year and beyond
Federal white collar prosecutions fell considerably during the last decade, and likely decreased further last year after courts and government offices closed. But now given the coming end of the...
View ArticleProtect the police or the First Amendment?
As the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin enters its third week, all eyes are not just on the facts surrounding the death of George Floyd, but also on the state of policing...
View ArticleDemocrats claim vindication, GOP cries witch hunt as McGahn finally testifies
Two years later, Democrats got their man.In closed-door testimony Friday that ran for more than seven hours on Capitol Hill, Don McGahn, former lead counsel to the Trump White House, provided members...
View ArticleEx-DOJ official Rosenstein says he was not aware of subpoena targeting...
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has said in conversations with associates that he is not be aware of a Trump-era subpoena targeting data for congressional Democrats, CNN reported...
View ArticlePelosi: Trump DOJ seizure of House Democrats' data ' goes even...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said the Trump administration’s subpoenas for data on accounts belonging to at least two House Democrats go “even beyond Richard Nixon.”“In terms of the data...
View ArticleMedia leaders to meet with Garland to discuss leak investigations
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will meet with leaders from CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post on Monday to discuss the leak investigations that were carried out by the Department of...
View ArticleThe Hill's Morning Report - Biden-Putin meeting to dominate the week
Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. It is Monday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the...
View ArticleHouse Judiciary to probe DOJ's seizure of data from lawmakers, journalists
The House Judiciary Committee announced on Monday that it would be opening an investigation into the Department of Justice's (DOJ) secret subpoenas of data from members of Congress and multiple...
View ArticleWashington still needs more transparency
Louis Brandeis was partially right more than a century ago when he declared, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”Sometimes more is required than mere disclosure. But transparency is...
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