Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted President Trump, accused the Justice Department of having been “corrupted” by Trump loyalists he claimed were demolishing its credibility and seeking to undermine the rule of law. Mr. Smith’s remarks, made last month in a private discussion at the Cosmos Club in Washington, represented his sharpest criticism…
Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, was grilled by lawmakers for several hours on Wednesday over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that Mr. Lutnick had misrepresented his relationship with Mr. Epstein. During a closed-door interview, members of the House Oversight Committee pressed Mr….
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, is doing what he can, as quickly as he can, to shed the “acting” label. Mr. Blanche, who ran the day-to-day operations of the Justice Department as the top deputy to his predecessor, Pam Bondi, before her unceremonious ouster this month, has long been a target of pro-Trump influencers…
A federal judge has dismissed a highly unusual lawsuit, filed last year by the Trump administration, that sought to pre-emptively block Hawaii from filing its own lawsuit against oil companies over their role in climate change. Hawaii went ahead with its lawsuit the very next day. And at the time, a range of legal experts…
