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.

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

Citing the new administration, U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge for a 30-day extension to file materials ...

The U.S. Department of Justice will cease defending the independent status of three consumer and worker protection agencies, ...

The letter calls for an investigation of two Justice Department officials: the acting attorney general, Emil Bove, and the ...

The U.S. Justice Department has sharply stepped back its anti-corruption efforts under President Donald Trump, from loosening ...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice late Monday ordered the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office to drop federal ...

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

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

The Justice Department argued that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and doesn’t grant ...

The Justice Department says the case was interfering with Adams' ability to aid the president's crackdown on illegal ...