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U.S. Appeals Courts Dismisses Flynn Case
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday directed a federal judge to drop a criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI, handing a victory to the MORE
News
DOJ Sues to Stop Bolton’s Book Release
The Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against former national security advisor John Bolton to stop the publication of his book “The Room Where It Happened.” The books have already been shipped to MORE
Civil Rights
More that a thousand DOJ alumni call for probe of Barr’s role in crowd clearing outside White House
More than a thousand Department of Justice (DOJ) alumni called on the department’s internal watchdog to investigate Attorney General William Barr’s role in the aggressive dispersal last week of protesters gathered near the White House. Some MORE
US
Justice Department records show no links to antifa in protests: report
Justice Department records show no links to antifa within the federal cases relating to the protests over George Floyd’s death, NPR reported Tuesday. An NPR review of court documents for 51 individuals who are facing federal charges related MORE
News
Former DOJ Official Says Her Words Were Twisted to Dismiss Flynn Case
Former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary McCord said top officials were “disingenuous” with words she used to explain the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case against General Mike Flynn, in an op-ed to the MORE
News
History is Written by Winners: Barr Defends Flynn Reversal
When the Justice Department announced it would drop charges against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, legal experts reacted with a combination of shock and horror. Flynn not only lied to the FBI about his MORE
US
Department of Justice Drops Case Against Michael Flynn
The extraordinary move came after the former national security adviser had fought the case in court for months, a reversal after pleading guilty twice and cooperating with investigators https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/politics/michael-flynn-case-dropped.html WASHINGTON — The Justice Department dropped MORE
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DoJ will investigate lawmakers’ stock trades after coronavirus briefings; Burr lawyers up
The Justice Department has started to probe a series of stock transactions made by lawmakers ahead of the sharp market downturn stemming from the spread of coronavirus, according to two people familiar with the matter. The inquiry, MORE
Coronavirus
US DOJ asking to suspend constitutional rights during pandemic
The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress for the ability to detain arrested people “indefinitely” without trial during emergencies. MORE
US
DoJ drops case against Russian firm accused of 2016 election meddling
The US Justice Department abruptly dropped its criminal case Monday against the company controlled by a confident of Russian President Vladimir Putin that allegedly funded the campaign to meddle in the 2016 elections. Just weeks MORE
Politics
House Democrats request interviews with the prosecutors who quit the Roger Stone case
In a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr sent Friday, House Democrats requested interviews with 15 current and former Justice Department officials as part of an effort to investigate allegations of Trump interference into the DOJ. The MORE
News
Barr Tells People He Might Resign
Attorney General Billy Barr has reportedly told some people that he may quit his post over Trump’s tweeting about Department of Justice matters, an administration official told the Associated Press. The administration official requested anonymity MORE
Politics
Billy Barr assigns outside prosecutor to review Michael Flynn’s case
Once again, Attorney General Billy Barr has engaged in political interference by installing an outside prosecutor to review “the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, according to The New MORE
News
Andrew McCabe will not face any criminal charges
The Department of Justice has told lawyers for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that he will not face criminal charges for allegedly lying to investigators about a leak to the media, McCabe’s attorneys said MORE
News
Billy Barr says Trump should stop tweeting about DoJ: ‘Impossible for me to do my job’
In an exclusive interview, Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that President Donald Trump “has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case” but should stop tweeting about the Justice Department because MORE
Updates
Three Roger Stone prosecutors resign from case after DOJ backpedals on sentencing recommendation
Three prosecutors in Roger Stone’s criminal case abruptly resigned from the case on Tuesday after the Justice Department said it planned to reduce the recommended sentence for the longtime Trump associate. The Justice Department on MORE
Opinion
Bill Barr, warrior for theocracy: Why didn’t we know this until now?
“Bill Barr may be the most unvetted attorney general in history, which is strange since he had served as AG under George H.W. Bush and was well known in DC circles. How could he have MORE
News
DOJ Publishes Opinions That Support Stonewalling Congress
The Justice Department on Thursday quietly published on its website some never-before-seen internal legal opinions that could help President Donald Trump block congressional requests as he faces impeachment by the US House and a trial in MORE
Impeachment
DOJ/FBI Prepare Criminal Probe of Trump
Legal experts see signs that DOJ is laying the groundwork for a potential criminal probe into whether the president and his top advisers broke federal laws by withholding a White House meeting and nearly $400 MORE
News
No, Wing Nuts the FBI did not spy on the Trump campaign
According to The New York Times: The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that the F.B.I. attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald J. Trump’s campaign in 2016 as agents investigated whether MORE
Impeachment
Barr’s DOJ Tampering with IG Horowitz Report
The Justice Department will reportedly not allow witnesses in the ongoing inspector general (IG) investigation into the origins of the probe into the Trump campaign and Russian interference into the 2016 election to submit written MORE
News
D.C. Court of Appeals issues emergency stay on release of Mueller grand-jury materials to House
Remember when we all celebrated real #WINNING? Yeah, that didn’t last long. The D.C. Court of Appeals responded to DoJ’s claim that releasing this information would cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the agency by issuing a MORE
News
DoJ appeals court ruling allowing the House review grand jury evidence
A follow-up to a previous News Views article: On Monday, the Department of Justice “appealed a federal judge’s ruling granting congressional Democrats access to grand jury evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and asked that judge MORE
Breaking News
Judge rules all redacted portions of Mueller Report be released to House Judiciary Committee
Federal Judge Beryl Howell has ordered the Justice Department to release all redacted parts of the Mueller Report to the House Judiciary Committee by October 30th, 2019. The order also requires the Justice Department to MORE