An agent shot a man through the door of an occupied house with two toddlers inside. The government decided, over a prosecutor's screaming objection, that the only crime was the lie he told afterward. …
The federal government indicted its own ICE agent for lying about a shooting, and the prosecutor who fought to get a real charge fired the same week, and the man who fired him is now on leave. "This i…
The Department of Justice has quietly hired a convicted election hacker to oversee election "integrity," and in the fall it will put a thousand monitors at polling places across the country. "The Unit…
When the Justice Department finds nothing wrong, the funding still gets cut. "There's no way we're going to get a letter of no violation cleared." — A Trump administration official, as described by th…
A federal task force built to hunt fraud has spent its energy prosecuting a food truck, a hate group researcher, and the men and women who dared to run against the president. "They can't shred it all …
The nation's top law enforcement official was sworn in a week ago, and within days he's confirmed that the Department of Justice answers to one man. "No, I'm not going to pledge that. And no attorney …
A federal judge has lost all patience with a Justice Department that keeps missing deadlines to release files the public was legally promised. "That's not a threat. That's a promise." — Federal Judge …
*A memo from the Justice Department declares that anyone who whispers in the president's ear can be hidden from Congress, the courts, and the public. "Restricting executive privilege to purely intrago…
The judges who are supposed to trust the government's word are starting to believe that trust is extinct. "I don't think in the annals of the Department of Justice, in the history of jurisprudence in …
The Trump Justice Department subpoenaed the phone records of New York Times journalists' mothers and spouses to find who leaked stories about the president's Air Force One. "These actions demonstrate …
The Justice Department has sued more than 30 states for their voters' personal data and lost every single time, at the hands of judges the Trump administration itself put on the bench. "DOJ is now 0-1…
The Justice Department has been shut out of every courtroom it has entered. So now it is sending threats by mail. "Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingl…
The Justice Department has subpoenaed journalists who reported on the security of a plane they were given by a foreign government. "The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of …
trump, doj, domestic-terrorism, civil-liberties The Justice Department has recruited Guantanamo prosecutors to treat political dissent as terrorism. "It means they're looking at group criminality, con…
The Justice Department indicted fifteen people in Minnesota for conspiracy to impede federal officers. The most violent act documented in the ninety-four-page indictment? One defendant knocked a set o…
The Justice Department intervened to protect a billionaire's data center from an environmental lawsuit by revealing his AI chatbot helped the military bomb 2,000 targets in Iran. "Grok provides critic…
The governor of America's most populous state says the Justice Department is hunting for a crime against him, and he seems almost eager to be indicted. "One by one, anyone who has challenged Donald Tr…
The Trump Justice Department indicted a civil rights group for using the exact same informant tactics the FBI employs routinely, then pardoned the president's own proven fraud. "I don't think any pros…
The Department of Justice shut down a criminal investigation because the target happened to be Donald Trump's friend. "They were told 'pencils down.'" — A person familiar with the investigation into S…
The Department of Justice told a federal appeals court that if President Trump ordered the Statue of Liberty demolished, no one would have standing to stop him. "So just as long as you move fast enoug…
The Department of Justice has Congressionally appropriated money for domestic violence survivors sitting in an account, and it simply will not hand it over. "This funding isn't optional, it's lifesavi…
After a man was shot at a White House checkpoint, Trump's Department of Justice ran to court with an emergency filing arguing that his ballroom is a national security facility. "The singular and vital…
The Department of Justice announced it on a Monday in mid-May, the way governments do things they know will be met with disbelief: quietly, with press releases and legalistic language, trusting that m…