Trump attorney general pick Pam Bondi faces questions over DOJ independence
WASHINGTON — Senators questioned President-elect Donald Trump‘s choice to lead the Justice Department on Wednesday, asking former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi whether she would stand up to a president who had pushed out the two men he previously appointed to be U.S. attorney general. Bondi, who had initially been involved in legal efforts to […]
DOJ releases Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump election interference case
The Justice Department made public Volume I of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, days before he is set to be sworn into office. Attorney General Merrick Garland released the first volume, which focuses on the election case against Trump, of Smith’s report on Tuesday at midnight […]
Louisiana prisons routinely hold inmates past release date: DOJ
Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds inmates for weeks or months after they were supposed to be released from custody following the completion of their sentences, the U.S. Justice Department said in a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit against the state comes after a multi-year investigation into a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights […]
FBI missed ‘basic step’ gathering intel in the lead-up to Jan. 6, DOJ watchdog finds
WASHINGTON — The FBI failed to take the “basic step” of canvassing its field offices for intelligence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a long-awaited Justice Department’s inspector general report released Thursday. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told investigators that the lack of a canvass was a “basic […]
Trump’s DOJ secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers and 2 members of Congress
Seeking to investigate leaks of classified information, the Trump Justice Department in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers and two members of Congress in a far broader probe than previously known, according to a new report by the department’s internal watchdog. The report by Inspector General Michael […]