Tag: Law

An American flag flies outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department officials got a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate by misleading a surveillance court judge, House Republicans contend in a newly released memo that Democrats have dismissed as a contrived account intended to protect the president.

Conservative watchdog group files lawsuit against DOJ for communications records

Zach Halaschak · April 4, 2019 6:52 pm

John Dowd appears at a hearing.

John Dowd swings and misses at former AG Jeff Sessions

Quin Hillyer · April 4, 2019 6:36 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, joined by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, left, and Jessie Liu, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, right, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia in Washington, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, to announce on efforts to reduce transnational crime.

Beltway Confidential

Senate due diligence should trump identity politics

Cleta Mitchell, Rachel Bovard · April 4, 2019 6:16 pm

Lori Loughlin, Jussie Smollett, and Anna Sorokin are pictured.

Beltway Confidential

Jussie Smollett, Lori Loughlin, and the art of showing up to court in style

Madeline Fry Schultz · April 4, 2019 5:47 pm

In this June 18, 2015 photo, prisoners stand in a crowded lunch line during a prison tour at Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala. The Justice Department has determined that Alabama's prisons are violating the Constitution by failing to protect inmates from violence and sexual abuse and by housing them in unsafe and overcrowded facilities, according to a scathing report Wednesday, April 3, 2019, that described the problems as "severe" and "systemic."

‘Rapes, torture, and physical assaults’ rampant in Alabama prison system, says DOJ investigation report

John Gage · April 4, 2019 4:58 pm

Pictured are Andi Mazingo,left, and Nilab Rahyear Tolton, right.

Trump campaign’s law firm Jones Day hit with $200M sex bias lawsuit over ‘fraternity culture’

Melissa Quinn · April 4, 2019 4:27 pm

President Trump gestures outside the Elysee Palace after his talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Saturday.

Trump, DOJ rebuff anonymously sourced NYT and WaPo stories on Mueller team frustration

Jerry Dunleavy · April 4, 2019 4:17 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Dianne Feinstein’s ire over GOP altering blue slip process belies 2001 offer to ‘happily vote’ to get rid of it

Melissa Quinn · April 4, 2019 3:59 pm

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Patrick Murphy. Texas death row inmate Patrick Murphy and Alabama death row inmate Dominique Ray both came to the Supreme Court recently with the same request. Halt my execution, each said, because the state wonât let my spiritual adviser accompany me into the execution chamber, even as other inmates of different faiths get that ability. But while the Supreme Court declined to stop Rayâs execution in February, they gave Murphy a temporary reprieve Thursday night.

The priest, the death chamber, and the Supreme Court

Eric Rassbach · April 4, 2019 4:00 am

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a hearing.

Republicans overrule Democrats to speed up judicial confirmations

Susan Ferrechio · April 3, 2019 10:07 pm

Actress Lori Loughlin arrives at federal court in Boston.

TV stars in college admissions scandal make first appearance in court

Zach Halaschak · April 3, 2019 9:52 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. McConnell says there is "indisputable evidence" Russia tried to affect the 2016 presidential election. He says the Senate understands the "Russia threat" and that is the "widespread view here in the United States Senate among members of both parties."

Senate goes nuclear to speed up Trump nominees

Susan Ferrechio · April 3, 2019 7:52 pm