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86th United States Attorney General
The available record shows mixed responses: the Department of Justice produced a large set of Epstein-related records to Congress but senior Justice officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garla...
Donald Trump faces multiple criminal and investigatory allegations across state and federal venues, most prominent being a New York conviction for falsifying business records tied to hush-money paymen...
Merrick Garland has been described in public records and committee actions as a recipient of congressional scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein materials, but the available analyses show ; instead, he and ot...
Multiple reputable accounts and official statements say one law enforcement officer — U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick — died directly after January 6, 2021, and several other officers who r...
Documents made public by Republican oversight offices and reporting show an FBI inquiry known publicly as "Arctic Frost" was opened in spring 2022 to examine post‑2020 election activity; most sources ...
The Obama administration litigated or was affected by several high-profile Supreme Court decisions that shaped health care, labor relations, campaign finance, and regulatory power; the most frequently...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that presidents enjoy a mix of absolute immunity for “core” constitutional powers and at least presumptive immunity for other “official” acts, while le...
Merrick Garland’s long career as a federal prosecutor and his tenure as Attorney General created a public expectation of careful prosecutorial deliberation paired with comparatively broad disclosures ...
The Department of Justice can and does open investigations that involve sitting members of Congress when there is alleged criminal conduct; on probing or seeking evidence from lawmakers while they hol...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 immunity decision forced Special Counsel Jack Smith’s D.C. January 6 prosecution to shift from a straight-to-trial posture into a drawn-out, litigation-first strategy ...
Jared Kushner has been the subject of calls from senior Democrats urging a DOJ special counsel over possible FARA failures tied to millions in payments from foreign governments—Wyden and Raskin say Sa...
In 2017 Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked the so-called to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for cloture on Supreme Court nominations, allowing Neil Gorsuch to be confirm...
Federal archivists first retrieved boxes from Mar‑a‑Lago in January 2022, triggering subpoenas and a criminal probe that culminated in an FBI search and seizure in August 2022; the Justice Department ...
Department-wide manuals and successive Attorney General memoranda have materially shaped how federal prosecutors decide what charges to bring, steering discretion through formal principles, supervisor...
Donald Trump and close associates have been the focus of multiple high‑profile criminal investigations, indictments and at least one conviction tied directly to Trump, spanning state and federal probe...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide in the weeks and months after the riot, and one officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sickni...
President Trump has issued a string of high‑profile drug‑related pardons that span foreign heads of state accused of large‑scale trafficking to low‑ and mid‑level domestic drug offenders; among the mo...
— The person widely described in reporting as a “drug lord” whom President Trump pardoned is Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in a U.S. federal court in 2024 of participating in a long‑runnin...
The Justice Department’s formally appointed special counsel Robert K. Hur completed the investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents and produced a report that found evide...
President Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández on Dec. 1, 2025, ending a 45‑year U.S. sentence for a conspiracy prosecutors said facilitated more than 400 tons of cocaine in...