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DOJ is now very much an active participant in the online discourse that promotes and perpetuates ideas that are barely connected to reality.

The Supreme Court's recent ruling threatens the power of racial-minority voters in Voting Rights Act cases about not just Congress, but also at least 17 state and local governments, NPR finds.

Former CIA Director John Brennan is the subject of two criminal probes being led by the Miami-area U.S. Attorney's Office.

President Trump's settlement over the leak of his tax returns frees him and his company from any past IRS problems. Critics say that gives him a sweeping free pass from audits and tax penalties.

President Donald Trump has backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican race for U.S. Senate in Texas, praising Paxton as a loyal America First ally while criticizing incumbent Sen. John Cornyn as late to support Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. | Politics...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the creation of the fund as part of the settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers he won’t rule out the possibility that rioters who attacked police at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, could receive payments from a new $1.8 billion taxpayer fund being created by the Justice Department.

Traveling across the country, justices defend the role of the court even as strained relations among its members emerge in writing and remarks.

After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may severely limit enforcement of the law's remaining protections for minority voters.

Democrats claim the DOJ has created scheme to pay out Jan. 6 rioters in IRS lawsuit settlement.

The massive taxpayer-backed fund was set up to settle what outside legal experts had called an “unprecedented” lawsuit filed by the sitting president against the government.

Democrats criticize fund to compensate for supposed persecution as ‘slush fund’ for president’s allies after Trump ends lawsuit against IRS...

The president sued the IRS and the Treasury Department in January, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns years ago.

Tuesday's primary in Georgia features contentious Republican contests for governor and U.S. Senate while Democrats hope an enthusiasm advantage is enough to flip two state supreme court seats.

Republicans have gained an edge in the redistricting battle after the Supreme Court rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map.

Georgia's elections Tuesday include competitive GOP primaries for U.S. Senate and for governor. Meanwhile, Democrats hope an enthusiastic turnout helps them flip two state supreme court seats.

Subpoenas have begun to fly over reporting on the Iran military campaign.

The new map was drawn by Democrats and approved by Virginia voters, but the state Supreme Court declared the referendum null and void because lawmakers failed to follow the proper procedures to get the issue on the ballot.

The Supreme Court kept broader access to abortion pill mifepristone in place, allowing telehealth prescribing and mail delivery to continue.

Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency’s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely...

The decision maintains access nationwide to medication abortion, the most common way of ending pregnancies in the United States, while litigation continues.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) accused the Yale School of Medicine of race-based discrimination in its admissions, alleging Thursday that the school favors Black and Hispanic students&nb…...

Only Thomas and Alito publicly dissented.

The parents of Kevin Gonzalez, 18, who had Stage 4 colon cancer, had appealed to a judge to allow their expedited deportation to Mexico.

Trump officials likely violated Francesca Albanese’s rights by imposing measures after she criticized Israel, says judge...

The acting attorney general's startling threat builds on the Trump administration's continued attacks on press freedom.

The defense secretary fired off a fresh legal threat.

New voting maps flipped four Republican-held seats to give Democrats an edge in redistricting race sparked by Trump...

NPR's A Martinez asks New York Times correspondent Reid Epstein what Democrats in Virginia are planning now, after their redrawn election map was struck down by the state's Supreme Court.

A federal appeals court appeared ready Thursday to reject Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his call to US service members to refuse illegal orders.

Joe Biden's lawyers are expected to intervene against the DOJ's release of redacted transcripts and audio from his ghostwriter conversations.

Justice Jackson's solo dissents have drawn sharp rebukes from colleagues who say her positions defy precedent and embrace an imperial judiciary.

House where Monroe died, which hasn’t been occupied in seven years, is in limbo after current owners wanted to demolish it but were stopped by a public campaign...

While the national mood seems to be veering away from President Donald Trump as his popularity drops, Republicans are trying to squeeze every possible advantage out of a recent Supreme Court decision.

Prosecutors simply don’t have a case.

Democrats were already reeling from redistricting losses across the South ahead of the Virginia Supreme Court's ruling on Friday.

Maps, recently approved by voters, would have helped Democrats gain up to four new seats in US House...

A federal judge said more than $100 million in cuts to NEH grants were discriminatory, ruling in a case that revealed the inner workings of DOGE.

A federal judge unsealed a purported suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday.

The tariffs were put in place in February, days after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's previous round of sweeping "Liberation Day" tariffs.

After an appeals court tried to end telemedicine access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in a medication abortion, the Supreme Court stepped in. Here's what's happened and what's to come.

Meenu Batra exclusively spoke to CBS News about being detained by ICE, saying she was living and working legally in the U.S. when she was arrested.

The Biden administration was aware that the SPLC was paying "informants" in the KKK.

The Alabama Legislature has spent the week debating the state's congressional maps. Democratic lawmakers have argued their voting powers are being diluted because of a Supreme Court ruling.

A Reuters review found the number of U.S. drug, gun and other prosecutions fell sharply as investigators focused on immigration and about half the federal prosecutors in Minnesota left.

Border Czar Tom Homan told CBS that Trump is talking to his advisors about offering some form of "legal status" to many illegal migrants.

As the abortion pill heads back to the Supreme Court, advocates have a back-up that's effective and safe: misoprostol alone.

President Donald Trump said 300,000 illegal immigrants were kicked off Social Security and another 100,000 off Medicare by his administration.

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The US Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to let it intervene in President Donald Trump’s appeal of the $83.3 million jury verdict against him in a defamation suit brought by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

After Watergate, Congress tried to curtail the role of money in politics. But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the bud. Years later, new details are emerging on how wealthy Americans were conferred with a “right to spend” on elections.

Claims from last year said the tech firm’s advertising of Apple Intelligence fooled iPhone buyers.

The lawsuit claims that Meta's Llama is generating summaries — and, in some cases, verbatim copies — of original works.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed last week's landmark decision striking down Louisiana's congressional map to take effect immediately, drawing a sharp back-and-forth between two justices.

The Supreme Court temporarily restored telehealth and mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone on Monday, responding to an emergency appeal that warned of potential chaos for patients who had appointments to access the drug.

While Donald Trump’s push to expel illegal immigrants is popular, poll after poll in key districts and states suggests voters have lost confidence in ICE.

Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Dobbs decision, tells the Fifth Circuit to slow down.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Eric Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, about a Supreme Court decision that paves the way for a drop in Black representation in Congress.

The lawsuit ramps up a feud between World Liberty Financial and Sun, who last month sued the Trump-backed company for fraud.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, dropped an inquiry into Jerome Powell last month after a federal judge blocked her grand jury subpoenas.

Trump's letter to Congress comes 60 days after the conflict started on Feb. 28, and is designed to address a May 1 legal deadline on war powers.

We gauge reaction in the Deep South to the Supreme Court ruling that could upend Black representation in Congress.

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Efforts continued to broker an end to the Iran war, now into its third month, as US President Donald Trump suggested the Islamic Republic’s latest peace proposal might not be enough to satisfy him.

The move came after the Supreme Court struck down the state's current congressional map. The state's primary for the U.S. Senate will still go forward as scheduled on May 16.

Republican governors in the two southern states called on lawmakers to take up redistricting efforts that could have an effect on this year's midterm elections.

A panel of judges in Louisiana has just ended telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationally.

A federal appeals court issued a ruling that would temporarily block people from accessing abortion pills through telehealth providers and via mail.

The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.

A federal judge in New York on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Yemen.

Legal experts say the indictment against former FBI Director James Comey lacks evidence of a true criminal threat.

The Supreme Court indicated Wednesday it will back President Donald Trump’s push to end temporary deportation protections for potentially millions of foreign nationals who hail from countries enduring war and natural disasters.

Multiple Democrats tell TIME they may take Trump to court if the war in Iran continues past Friday's 60-day deadline.

The Trump administration’s second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey appears to be perched on a very slippery slope.

The former FBI director is facing a selective prosecution. But his case holds important lessons for Democrats...

The Trump administration has sought to terminate temporary protected status intended for immigrants fleeing war, natural disasters or other catastrophes.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law that Chief Justice John Roberts’ court has repeatedly undermined over the years.

Wednesday's 6-3 ruling didn't just gut a Louisiana map. It handed every Republican statehouse in the country a roadmap to redraw Black voters out of power before the 2026 midterms.

The Supreme Court, in Louisiana v. Callais, struck down Louisiana's second majority-Black congressional district.

The court agreed with Republicans that the congressional map Louisiana drew is a racial gerrymander, making it harder for civil rights plaintiffs to challenge future maps.