A new counsellor at the Department of Justice, now pardoned, was alleged to have urged violence toward police officers.

An attorney who has represented journalists in leak probes says the Trump DOJ could seek search warrants and grand jury ...

The Justice Department is not expected to appoint an outsider to serve as special counsel to handle politically sensitive criminal investigations, but will likely deputize a US Attorney to handle such ...

President Donald Trump has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden, repeating his baseless claim that the contest was marred by ...

Last year, Trump's personal lawyers launched an aggressive, and successful, challenge to the appointment of Jack Smith, the special counsel ... ruling that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland had ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named former federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee Justice Department investigations into former President Donald Trump ...

Special Counsel Smith left no indication in his report or in his transmittal letter to Attorney General Garland that he favored congressional release or review of his report prior to conclusion of ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland wants to send special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s classified documents case to select members of Congress.

The fight over Jack Smith’s report on documents case symbolizes the Trump-era legal war Democrats want Merrick Garland to drop the case against Trump’s former co-defendants.

The storyline that Garland let moss grow on the investigation—some say until Jack Smith came aboard, others until the work of the January 6 committee embarrassed the department—doesn’t gibe ...

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Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to take over two investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, has resigned.