An emergency evacuation order due to an unknown threat at the Department of Justice building in Washington D.C. led to employees leave the building Tuesday afternoon. American attorney Leo Terrell revealed the evacuation order in a video post on X.

The Department of Justice under the Trump administration has demanded that members of the Oath Keepers militia who have been barred from entering Washington D.C. or the US Capitol be allowed to do so.

When federal prisoners complete their sentence, they face a difficult time starting life on the outside. Old DOJ press releases often hinder those trying to move on.

Andrew Taake, 36, was released from a federal prison in Colorado on Jan. 20, despite a request from the Harris County DA’s Office to hold him on a pending state warrant from 2016.

Commuted Jan. 6 defendants could challenge a federal judge's order barring them from entering Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Capitol on constitutional grounds, one expert says.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness to take action favorable to the president’s personal interests.

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned work to the attorney general.

After a tumultuous tenure clouded by two failed criminal prosecutions against the incoming president, Attorney General Merrick Garland is leaving the Justice Department the same way he came in: trying to defend it against political attacks.

The top federal prosecutor for Washington is a conservative activist who promoted Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories

The federal agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination, the EEOC describes itself as a bipartisan commission comprised of five members, all appointed by presidents. On Tuesday, a law firm posted on social media that it was representing Charlotte Burrows, a commissioner who had been fired on Monday by the Trump administration.

Patel, like Trump, has taken a different view, saying the rioters have been mistreated by the criminal justice system. A former federal public defender and prosecutor, he has called them “political prisoners” and offered on at least one occasion to represent them for free.