Department of Justice (DOJ)

Trump's disrespect for the rule of law has spread and is now poised to threaten the president himself.

More information is needed to better understand how the federal government prosecutes terrorism. That’s why the Brennan Center – along with UNC Professor Charles Kurzman –…

Replace Russia with China, the 2016 election with 1996, and Trump with Gore, and there are disturbing parallels. The stark difference is in how the White House handled the case.

Justice Department regulations allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in “extraordinary circumstances,” to ask Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to approve a departure…

Writing from the perspective of a former federal prosecutor, Barbara McQuade decried President Donald Trump’s most recent exercise of the pardon power, which supposedly poses…

News that Trump has pardoned two cattle ranchers who committed arson on public lands should alarm anyone who is committed to our legal institutions.

Whatever one’s views on the ultimate questions of whether a ­sitting president may constitutionally be indicted and for what offenses, they are as a practical (and legal) matter…

The DOJ IG report forces readers to hold multiple competing thoughts in your head at the same time.

This morning, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel posted a formal, 22-page opinion, concluding that the April 13 airstrikes on Syria were lawful.

During the Obama administration, the Justice Department routinely used “spy” tactics to investigate Democratic campaigns and politicians.

If President Trump litigates the question whether the special counsel can subpoena him, the courts may ending up also saying a sitting president can be indicted.

Professor Goodman explodes four common myths about Mueller's options if the special counsel finds the President engaged in criminal activity. Some avenues are closed or risky,…