A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties ...

One of President Donald Trump’s first orders of business following his inauguration this week was to pardon those jailed in ...

Newsweek is tracking the flurry of executive actions President-elect Trump is expected to sign on Monday. Follow along here.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges against any state ...

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...

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.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 ...

In continuing a stream of controversial pardons, President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued clemency to two former police ...

The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the civil rights division for at least ...

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw President Trump’s federal election subversion case, wrote in court filings ...

Now, the same people officers sought to hold accountable for storming the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to subvert democracy are ...

No ‘process of national reconciliation’ can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are ...