WASHINGTON — Before he was reelected, President Trump openly threatened to use — or abuse — his power by ordering federal ...

After years of baselessly claiming the Justice Department was out to get him for political reasons, incoming President Donald ...

Like Jackson, Trump reshaped his party: In many ways, though, Trump more closely resembles Jackson than the scandal-plagued ...

Special counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor in the federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, asked a D.C.

As Smith took steps to wind down his Jan. 6 election interference case against Trump, GOP lawmakers sent the special counsel ...

The Justice Department has been largely separated from White House influence since Watergate. The president-elect has made it ...

Before he became known as the Watergate special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski prosecuted war crimes in Europe. His admonitions ...

Authorities dropped all charges Thursday against a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was beaten by Phoenix police after he didn’t respond to their orders, an Arizona prosecutor announced ...

Former officials fear Trump would force out DOJ and FBI officials who defy him and replace them with loyalists.

I gave decades to our military. A Trump win could make me feel it was in vain. The thought of Trump exacting retribution by politicizing the American military should terrify us all.

In it, he directly addressed Smith's claim that independent lawyers have been used as prosecutors for decades, including in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon era. Ray wrote that outside ...