Department Of Justice

Latest Stories

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, walks from Marine One upon arrival at Fort McNair, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Republican chairmen of three key House committees are joining forces to probe the Justice Department's handling of charges against Hunter Biden after making sweeping claims about misconduct at the agency. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

IRS agents say Justice Department brass nixed felony charges against Hunter Biden

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting with all of the U.S. Attorneys to discuss violent crime reduction strategies at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Contrasting decisions on whether gunmen should face a federal death sentence in massecres with so much in common illustrate the Justice Department’s murky, often baffling death penalty policies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

How DOJ made different death penalty decisions in the Pittsburgh synagogue and Texas mall massacres

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Tuesday, June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom earlier in the day to dozens of felony counts that he hoarded classified documents and refused government demands to give them back. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Justice Department urges judge to not postpone Trump’s classified documents trial

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Attorney Michael Harper holds a photo of Lashawn Thompson's cell in the Fulton County, Ga., Jail at a news conference addressing the results of an independent autopsy determining the cause of death of Thompson, May 22, 2023, at the state Capital in Atlanta. The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county, with officials citing violence, filthy conditions and excessive force by jail officers. (Christina Matacotta/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Justice Department to investigate jail conditions in Georgia’s most populous county

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

Illustration on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Hunter Biden by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

How DOJ protected Hunter Biden and his father

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden talks with guests before President Joe Biden offers a toast during a State Dinner for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Top Republicans are gearing up to investigate the Hunter Biden case. Here’s what to know.

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Federal prosecutors say Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol and arrested last week near the home of former President Barack Obama, told followers on his YouTube live stream that he was looking to get a “good angle on a shot” and that he was trying to locate the “tunnels underneath their houses” shortly before he was taken into custody by the Secret Service. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump posted what he said was Obama’s address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested there

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, walks from Marine One upon arrival at Fort McNair, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Biden's are returning from Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Prostitutes for Hunter Biden cross legality line

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Prosecutor Jack Smith waits for the start of the court session of Kadri Veseli's initial appearance at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court in The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 10, 2020. Smith, the prosecutor named as special counsel to oversee investigations related to former President Donald Trump, has a long career confronting public corruption and war crimes. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool) **FILE**

‘No white knight’: Jack Smith’s record rife with mistrials, overturned convictions, judicial rebukes

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Daniel Werfel testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner, Feb. 15, 2023, in Washington. The IRS released details Thursday, April 6, on how it plans to use the $80 billion it's getting to improve operations, promising investments in new technology, hiring more customer service representatives and expanding its ability to audit high-wealth taxpayers. Contrary to unfounded alarmist talk from Republicans, it won't include spending for new IRS agents with guns, says IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

House GOP demands interviews with DOJ, IRS officials in Hunter Biden probe

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, walks to a motorcade vehicle after stepping off Air Force One with President Biden, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Three House committees to investigate DOJ’s handling of Hunter Biden investigation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Lilac Luncheon, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Trump’s classified docs held military secrets, spy data on foreign foes: ‘Extremely problematic’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters after a court hearing, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Michael Sisak) ** FILE **

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani interviewed in Jan. 6 investigation

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump's valet Walt Nauta visits Versailles restaurant with Trump on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Miami. Nauta, a personal aide whom prosecutors say moved boxes from a storage room to Trump's residence for him to review and later lied to investigators about the movement, joined Trump on Tuesday in federal court. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Court date postponed for Trump valet Walt Nauta in classified documents case

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives with President Joe Biden for an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2022, to highlight state and local leaders who are investing American Rescue Plan funding. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ted Cruz calls for special counsel to probe AG Garland while House GOP threatens impeachment inquiry

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

The Department of Democratic Party Justice Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Trump vs. the Department of Democratic Party Justice

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, speaks to guests during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, April 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

IRS investigator says Justice Dept. protected Hunter Biden in tax probe

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Special Counsel John Durham leaves a closed hearing of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

John Durham says AG Merrick Garland never prohibited him from bringing indictments

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks to reporters about Hunter Biden Tuesday, June 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Joe Biden's son Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offenses and avoid a full prosecution on a separate gun charge in a deal with the Justice Department that likely spares him time behind bars. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Democrats shrug off domestic agenda conflict in wake of Hunter Biden plea deal in tax, gun crimes

By Kerry Picket and Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, May 31, 2023. Moments after Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hoarded classified documents and then conspired to obstruct an investigation about it, the Republicans in Congress had his back. Trump's mounting legal jeopardy has quickly become a political rallying cry as they rush to stand by the indicted former president. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Speaker McCarthy slams ‘two-tiered’ federal justice after Hunter Biden plea deal

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times