The Justice Department’s independence from politics has always been a matter of rituals and appearances more than reality.

The Trump administration has gutted the federal government’s ability to fight public corruption in a matter of weeks.

Hagan Scotten is yet another Assistant United States Attorney to submit his resignation to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors contend the case was marred by appearances of impropriety and that letting it continue would interfere with the ...

The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

A crisis at the department over the Eric Adams case is an early test of the criminal justice system’s resilience against a ...

Federal prosecutors on Friday formally asked a judge to drop bribery charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, after a ...

A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the ...

A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the US Treasury ...

NEW YORK -- The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order to drop ...

Humiliating as shameless a figure as Adams is no mean feat, but Donald Trump seems to have managed it. This awkward scene was ...