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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Washington. Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden special counsel deepens Justice Dept. in politics fray

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland with Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Garland to make statement as GOP presses for special counsel in Biden doc case

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden walks from Marine One towards the Oval Office on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, after returning from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where first lady Jill Biden had surgery to remove skin cancer. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden says classified document found in ‘personal library’

By Zeke Miller and Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

Feds outline new plan for inmates to pay victim restitution

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden insists he’s ‘surprised’ by classified documents discovery as GOP opens probe

By Jeff Mordock and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule change that allows women seeking abortion pills to get them through the mail, replacing a long-standing requirement that they pick up the medicine in person. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Justice Department clears mail delivery of abortion pills even in states with bans

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A video of former President Donald Trump speaking on Jan. 6, 2021, plays as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July 21, 2022. The House Jan. 6 committee is shutting down, wrapping up a whirlwind 18-month investigation of the 2021 Capitol insurrection and sending its work to the Department of Justice along with a recommendation for prosecuting the former president. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Jan. 6 committee shutting down after referring Trump for crimes

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

A woman enters the Oregon Department of Justice building in Salem, Ore., Thursday, May 28, 2020, the same day that the state supreme court and the appeals court began reversing convictions by nonunanimous juries. The U.S. Supreme Court in April ruled that nonunanimous jury convictions are unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Hundreds convicted by non-unanimous juries have right to new trial, Oregon Supreme Court rules

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jailhouse interview: Stewart Rhodes warns Trump is next for politically motivated prosecution

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the House Jan. 6 Committee, speaks with reporters as lawmakers debate a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill that finances federal agencies and provides aid to Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. The House Jan. 6 committee's final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. Raskin was also named this week to be the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee in the 119th Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Raskin says Jan. 6 committee needed DOJ’s ‘panoply’ of resources to continue its work against Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

House Jan. 6 committee recommends criminal charges against Trump, lawyer Eastman

By Joseph Clark and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A video of President Donald Trump is shown on a screen, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July 21, 2022. The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will hold its final meeting Monday, Dec. 19, wrapping up its year-and-a-half-long inquiry by asking the Justice Department to investigate potential crimes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Jan. 6 Committee to meet Monday amid expectations that it will refer criminal charges

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Mar-a-lago on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump is preparing to launch his third campaign for the White House with an announcement Tuesday night, Nov. 15. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Federal judge formally ends special master for Trump document case

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 in Palm Beach, Fla. The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the handover of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Report: DOJ seeking contempt of court charges against Trump

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Prosecutor Jack Smith listens as Hashim Thaci, not pictured, makes his first courtroom appearance before a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court in The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 9, 2020. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith a special counsel on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election. (Jerry Lampen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Special counsel subpoenas Trump-linked local officials in probe of purported fake electors scheme

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illustration on the DOJ assault on Trump by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Jack Smith and the DOJ want to select the next president

By Michael McKenna

Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he smiles while speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Appellate judges skeptical of Trump’s arguments in Mar-a-Lago documents case

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This is an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. The discovery of hundreds of classified records at Donald Trump's home has thrust U.S. intelligence agencies into a familiar and uncomfortable role as the foil of a former president who demanded they support his agenda and at times accused officers of treason. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Trump’s attorneys say redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit is ‘misleading’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Jack Smith, the Department of Justice's chief of the Public Integrity Section, poses for a photo at the Department of Justice in Washington, Aug. 24, 2010. 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/Charles Dharapak, File)

Doubts emerge about the impartiality of DOJ special prosecutor unleashed on Trump

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021. More than half of the reported trading volume on 157 crypto exchange sites is misrepresented or fake, according to a study published in Forbes magazine. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Ohio man charged with running alleged $10 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times