The case revolves around a photo the former FBI director posted online last year of seashells on a beach arranged to say “8647.”
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DOJ wants to shield its lawyers from outside scrutiny. Critics worry about oversight
Critics say the proposed rule to let the DOJ step into state bar investigations could weaken one of the last independent checks on government lawyers.
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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups.
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Who owns presidential records? Trump’s Justice Department says it’s him
The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.
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Justice Department says Biden DOJ weaponized law to go after anti-abortion activists
The Trump administration has said that enforcement of the FACE Act by the Biden DOJ represents “the prototypical example” of the weaponization of the law against conservatives.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi out at DOJ
President Trump has announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi is out at the Justice Department. Her departure comes amid simmering frustration over her leadership and handling of the Epstein files.
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Senate confirms Trump’s pick for new role of fraud enforcement at Justice Department
The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.
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The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector
The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.
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U.S. has a quarter fewer immigration judges than it did a year ago. Here’s why
The continued drain of personnel from the already strained immigration court system has contributed to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs — and floundering due process.
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Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions
President Trump is asking the federal government for billions of dollars in damages, putting his own Justice Department on the spot and creating an unprecedented ethical morass.
