The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) believes the Trump administration's removal of its Jan. 6 database — detailing criminal charges and convictions — was "likely" illegal.
More than a dozen officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump have been fired, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.
The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections.
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,
President Donald Trump’s administration is ending the case against his former co-defendants in the classified documents investigation brought by former special counsel Jack Smith.
The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida, foreclosing the chance the case against them could ever be revived.
The Justice Department under President Donald Trump moved to drop an appeal by former special counsel Jack Smith in his classified documents case, tying up one of the final loose ends in the case.
The messages showed that F.B.I. investigators took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions when opening an extraordinarily sensitive inquiry into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The mass firings are a warning shot aimed at bringing others in the department to heel. Every president at some point during his administration chafes at the independence of the Justice Department. None have moved as swiftly or definitively as President Donald Trump to put the department firmly under his thumb.
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice fired over a dozen officials involved in Jack Smith’s prosecution of the president, The Post has confirmed. AP “Today, Acting Attorney General James ...