Washington’s campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court also masks a fear of the enduring power of the language of the law.
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Extremist groups have pointed to the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center as proof that their worldview is correct.
Does a seashell arrangement in the form of the numerals ‘86 47’ amount to a criminal threat to assassinate President Donald Trump, as prosecutors suggest?
After the Voting Rights Act, federal election observers helped ensure fair voting, but that oversight has increasingly shifted focus − to monitor what Washington says is voter fraud and accusations of cheating.
The dismissals do not mean that these prosecutions are over.
Contested nominations to the federal courts often involve ideological concerns. But a scholar of the courts says the contentious nomination of a former lawyer for Donald Trump was different.
History shows that building the trust of immigrants is an effective tactic in combating local crime and making entire communities safer.
Trump’s use of the Justice Department to target political opponents goes beyond revenge − it deters current officials from defying the president.
Some Department of Justice attorneys have recently been fired or have resigned, refusing to follow directives from the Trump administration that they felt violated the law, legal ethics or both.
The high court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego García, to the United States.
Some observers compare FBI Director Kash Patel to J. Edgar Hoover. A better historical match is the politically motivated William J. Burns.
Historically, it has been difficult to convict people of conspiring to overthrow the government or stop its normal functioning.
The new president has shown clemency to supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Department of Homeland Security’s massive bureaucracy has many critical national security functions and spends billions of taxpayer dollars seeking to keep the nation safe.
A former federal judge explains a key power the US attorney general has, and why it’s useful to the public for the Justice Department to operate in a trustworthy way.
RealPage Inc. provides software that helps landlords keep rental prices high. The Justice Department called foul on the price-fixing practice.
Washington looked the other way as coup leaders and drugs cartels conspired to turn Honduras into a center of the cocaine trade.
Trump has trial dates set for three of his four criminal cases. But generally, state and federal prosecutors will coordinate to make sure that their dates don’t overlap.
What can President Trump and his lawyers say about documents and witness statements used as evidence in his upcoming trial over his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election?
While Trump has received early warnings ahead of indictments and detailed explanations behind the charges, criminal defendants typically get a bare-bones explanation.
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