3705 articles
The three found themselves standing up to Trump as he waged a relentless campaign to have the Justice Department help subvert Biden’s election. ...
With raw emotion, former Justice Department officials described to the Jan. 6 committee how close the department came to catastrophe....
Three former U.S. Department of Justice officials testified that Donald Trump meddled in the department with the aim of overturning the election. ...
The committee debuted new evidence of Trump allies seeking pardons, while building out key elements of its case and linking Trump lawyers’ plot to the Justice Department....
Former Justice Department officials will testify Thursday about Trump’s plan to install an AG sympathetic to his baseless claims of election fraud. ...
In fifth hearing of the month, committee heard from Justice officials about Trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election....
Federal agents raided the home of Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official who pushed Trump’s unfounded election fraud claims, on Wednesday as part of a sprawling federal investigation....
Thursday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing focuses on President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Justice Department officials to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election....
Prosecutors appear focused on how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 victory....
Trump accuses a committee investigating his role in the Capitol riot of being a ‘kangaroo court’ to distract Americans....
How the longtime civil rights advocates who now hold top jobs in President Biden’s Justice Department are trying to strike a middle ground on policing....
The changes, the first to the department’s use-of-force policy in 18 years, follow the murder of George Floyd and other incidents of policy brutality....
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Arizona state lawmakers to reverse former President Donald Trump’s election loss in 2020. ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been talking with civil rights leaders as his agency launches a hate-crimes probe....
The agency has announced a series of policies intended to elevate those efforts, including the creation of an office meant to address the “harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change.”...
The most critical moments for prospective justices often come in the dozens of private huddles they hold with senators....
Each of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees came out of their confirmation hearings with some wiggle room — even as GOP senators who support abortion rights claimed they were satisfied....
Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman who was convicted and then pardoned, is sued by the Justice Department for financial penalties related to his criminal case....
John Carlin, who occupies one of the most powerful and under-the-radar posts in the department, has dealt with major matters including the Jan. 6 investigation....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ruled the mandate “necessary,” but an appeal risks creating a precedent that could permanently constrain the agency....
More than 90 federal agencies outlined “equity action plans” as major action on voting rights, police reforms and student debt forgiveness languish. ...
President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson deliver remarks after the U.S. Senate confirmed her as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court....
The former attorney general claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop “coverup” was worse than Russian interference during an interview with another former Trump official....
Some Democrats say failing to charge former Trump aides Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino Jr. would render congressional subpoenas useless. Legal analysts said it’s complicated....
Posterity must know what really happened in Ukraine. Justice must be given a chance. https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/joe-biden
Grand jury subpoenas for information about planning for pro-Trump events preceding the violent breach of the Capitol show how the criminal probe has expanded beyond the riot itself....
Judicial watchdogs say the current recusal systems gives jurists too much leeway to determine when they should recuse from a case involving family. ...
Ketanji Brown Jackson faces the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Biden will hold a call with European leaders and more news to start your Monday. ...
In some ways, Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, followed a traditional trajectory to the Supreme Court: Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerk, federal appeals judge. But her time as a public defender would be unique among the justices....
The announcement comes as the administration has sought to fulfill a key part of President Biden’s legislative agenda....
Former Trump aide hopes to toss indictment for failing to appear before House Jan. 6 panel, citing DOJ policy on White House immunity....
Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, said she left the rally before former president Donald Trump took the stage....
The Justice Department so far hasn’t said whether its sprawling investigation into the Capitol attacks includes an examination of Trump’s role. ...
Readers worry that as the climate threat heightens, the necessary actions to combat it are being thwarted. Also: Care in Catholic hospitals....
“We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday. ...
At the Conservative Political Action Conference and two alternatives, the question was how much the American right should orient itself around cultural grievances harnessed by Trump....
In a sharp partisan difference, nearly 8 in 10 Democrats welcomed President Biden’s decision to nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court, while 16 percent of Republicans held that view....
Despite the goal of speedy approval, the outbreak of war in Ukraine could shift the timetable and the Senate’s attention....
Biden is expected to name a nominee to the Supreme Court by the end of the month to replace the retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. ...
Mr. Dellinger, a fierce liberal raised in the heart of the former confederacy, was always keenly aware of the forces he was up against....
The request came amid revelations that officials recovered 15 boxes of materials from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence that weren’t handed back to the government as they should have been....
U.S. prosecutors have obtained the phone and email records of Robert Costello, an attorney representing former Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon, who has been charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to appear before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6,...
Sometimes fulfilling a campaign promise gets tricky. https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/joe-biden
“Only when we disentangle the concepts of whiteness and maleness from the concept of power can we see the damage the association has done.”...
The story of an uncle’s cocaine conviction formed only part of Judge Jackson’s understanding of the system’s complexities. She is now seen as a contender to be President Biden’s Supreme Court pick....
In its 232-year history, America’s highest court has seen only five female judges – none of them has been a woman of colorOnly five women have sat on the US supreme court in its 232 years. Not one has been a Black woman – but that is now set to change.The retirement...
The replacement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer with another liberal is unlikely to alter the basic dynamic at the court or to slow its accelerating conservative ambitions....
President Biden commended Justice Stephen G. Breyer for his nearly 28 years on the bench, and said his pick for the vacancy “will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.”...
President Biden commended Justice Stephen G. Breyer for his nearly 28 years on the bench, and said his pick for the vacancy “will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.”...
President Joe Biden announced the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; Biden promised to nominate a Black woman to the high court. ...
140011 total articles
