Latest U.S. Department of Justice News

How Texas' plans to arrest migrants for illegal entry would work if allowed to take effect

Mar. 18, 2024 18:05 PM EDT

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas' plan to arrest migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is on hold while the Supreme Court considers a challenge to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's latest move over immigration. The nation's highest court put the law on pause over a lawsuit led...

House Republicans demand answers on 'gag order' for union of immigration judges

Mar. 18, 2024 17:52 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Monday demanded answers on what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor approval before speaking publicly about the heavily backlogged courts. Rep., Jim Jordan, Judiciary Committee chair, and Rep....

Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office

Mar. 13, 2024 19:23 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth,...

Corrections officers sentenced in case involving assault of inmate and cover up

Mar. 13, 2024 11:58 AM EDT

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Six former officers at an eastern Kentucky prison who pleaded guilty in a case involving the assault of an inmate have been sentenced to prison, the Justice Department said. Three officers who participated in the 2018 assault at Eastern Kentucky Correctional...

Utah prison discriminated against transgender woman, Department of Justice finds

Mar. 12, 2024 19:26 PM EDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Corrections came under fire Tuesday for discriminating against a transgender inmate who the U.S. Department of Justice said was driven to harm herself after she was repeatedly denied hormone therapy in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act....

Standout moments from the hearing on the Biden classified documents probe by special counsel Hur

Mar. 12, 2024 17:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a now-familiar ritual in Washington: a federal prosecutor being summoned to Capitol Hill to discuss the findings of a politically explosive investigation. Tuesday's hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden's handling of...

States have hodgepodge of cumbersome rules for enforcing sunshine laws

Mar. 12, 2024 12:53 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A nationwide review of procedures by The Associated Press and CNHI News revealed a patchwork of complicated systems for resolving open government disputes that often put the burden of enforcing transparency laws on private citizens. The review, timed to Sunshine...

Pressure on Boeing grows as Buttigieg says the company needs to cooperate with investigations

Mar. 12, 2024 03:12 AM EDT

With Boeing facing multiple government investigations, the company needs to make “a serious transformation” around its safety and manufacturing quality, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday. The comments came one day after Buttigieg said the aircraft builder is...

Who is Robert Hur? A look at the special counsel due to testify on Biden classified documents case

Mar. 11, 2024 11:22 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week. Robert Hur is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee on Tuesday as House...

Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing

Mar. 08, 2024 15:21 PM EST

The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors of abuse and their advocates remain deeply skeptical of leaders' intentions to address the scandal in the nation's largest...