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Voting rights groups are concerned about priorities shifting under Trump's Justice Department

Jan. 28, 2025 17:03 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections. Conservative calls to overhaul the department by removing career employees, increasing federal voter fraud cases and investigating the 2020 election are...

Kash Patel’s podcast persona: Staunch Trump defender and fierce critic of the FBI he could soon lead

Jan. 28, 2025 16:18 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI agents who searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate found boxes of classified documents in his office and storage room and retrieved sensitive government secrets about nuclear systems and weapons capabilities. One person unmoved by the gravity of the...

Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president

Jan. 28, 2025 12:59 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness to take action...

Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking access to reproductive health centers

Jan. 24, 2025 17:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking access to abortion clinics and reproductive health centers, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement. ...

Pardons by Trump and Biden reveal distrust of each other and wobbly faith in criminal justice system

Jan. 22, 2025 10:59 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day that began with the outgoing president's pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president's pardon of supporters who violently stormed the Capitol four years ago. The clemency Monday by departing President Joe Biden and new President...

Trump pardons upend massive Jan. 6 prosecution by freeing rioters and dismissing cases

Jan. 21, 2025 20:22 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rioters locked up for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were released while judges began dismissing dozens of pending cases Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged in the insurrection that shook the foundation...

Key career officials at Justice Department reassigned to different positions, AP sources say

Jan. 21, 2025 18:56 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has reassigned key senior officials across multiple divisions as part of a leadership shakeup ahead of the expected confirmation of President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, multiple people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. ...

Republican senators are mostly quiet on Trump's sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 rioters

Jan. 21, 2025 18:35 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican senators say they do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people who assaulted police officers, broke into the building or committed other crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol four...

Editorial Roundup: United States

Jan. 21, 2025 15:37 PM EST

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 21 The Washington Post on the need for transparency from social media platforms Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced last week that he...

Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs

Jan. 20, 2025 22:10 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions. Trump's order,...