Tag Archives: Justice Department

In a dramatic legal twist, the Justice Department on Friday filed to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a decision that has triggered a wave of resignations among federal prosecutors and ignited controversy over political interference in the legal system. The move does not immediately end …

The Justice Department announced Wednesday its intent to release findings from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election while keeping under wraps the portion of the report focused on classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The decision was disclosed in a court …

Jimmy Williams The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Tuesday, accusing the world’s largest payments network of maintaining an illegal monopoly over debit payments through exclusionary agreements that stifled competition and harmed consumers. In its lawsuit, filed in New York, the DOJ claims Visa’s dominance …

Jimmy Williams Top Justice Department leaders promised swift action on Monday to address threats against officials managing this year’s elections and to combat the misuse of advanced technology in disrupting the process. With a tight presidential race approaching in November, high-ranking federal officials gathered at the DOJ headquarters. They warned …

Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance The U.S Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it reached a $138.7 million settlement with survivors of disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse for the failures of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to properly investigate Nassar’s abuse. The FBI’s response to Nassar’s …

Jennifer Shutt, South Dakota Searchlight The federal government on Monday asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to place on hold a Texas judge’s ruling that would otherwise overturn U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill. The Department of Justice’s request for an administrative stay asks the …

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Consumer and labor advocates on Tuesday welcomed a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit seeking to block JetBlue’s proposed $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines, its biggest competitor, a deal that critics say would harm passengers and workers. The Department of Justice (DOJ), along with the …

Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance January 23, 2023 WASHINGTON — A Texas judge appointed by former President Donald Trump could decide as soon as next month whether to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull its two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill, which accounts for more than half of …

Robert Moore, El Paso Matters The federal government will not seek the death penalty for the man accused of massacring 23 people in a hate crime at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. “The United States of America hereby notifies the Court and Defendant PATRICK …

Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams The Biden administration on Thursday filed suit against one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, AmerisourceBergen, and two of its subsidiaries for allegedly violating federal law and contributing to the opioid epidemic. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the complaint …

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled unanimously Wednesday that Judge Aileen Cannon—a Trump appointee—”abused” her discretion by barring the U.S. Department of Justice from proceeding with its criminal investigation into the former president’s removal of classified documents from the White House. In a scathing 29-page …

Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond As the 2022 midterm campaigns approach Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022, a federal probe into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is testing an unwritten policy of the U.S. Justice Department. Some legal analysts have suggested that the so-called 60-day …

Eric Neugeboren, The Texas Tribune Guy Reffitt, a Texan who prosecutors said “lit the match” of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 7 1/4 years in prison on Monday, the longest sentence of any rioter to date but less than what the Justice Department had …

by Jacob Fischler, Nebraska Examiner President Donald Trump sought to use the U.S. Justice Department to create the illusion of a legitimate investigation into the validity of the 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 committee and former Justice Department leaders said Thursday in the panel’s fifth hearing this month. In …

The gunman accused of killing ten people in a Buffalo, New York supermarket has been charged with hate crimes by the U.S. Department of Justice. Authorities believe that suspect Payton Gendron, 18, was motivated by racial hatred. Almost all the victims in the shooting were black. He now faces 26 …