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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — A pair of prominent Democratic members of Congress will host a "shadow" hearing Monday seeking to spotlight what they describe as President Donald Trump's attacks on the rule of law. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., will lead the event Monday afternoon, with Schiff telling NBC News he hopes the hearing will help "shed a light" on the "rampant" abuses in the first few months of the Trump administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — Sen. Adam Schiff placed a hold Tuesday on the nomination of Ed Martin, the "stop the steal" organizer and advocate for Jan. 6 defendants who President Donald Trump nominated to serve as Washington, D.C.'s chief federal prosecutor on a permanent basis.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — The White House's firing of a career federal prosecutor last week was one in a series of Trump administration moves that have undermined the post-Watergate separation between the White House and the Justice Department — and spread fears about political interference in ongoing criminal cases. Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Schleifer, based in Los Angeles, was told by a White House official in an email Friday that he was being terminated.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the powerful law firm Paul Weiss caved. It agreed to give Donald Trump’s administration $40 million in free legal work for causes the president supports and, according to a social media post from Trump, get rid of any internal diversity, equity and inclusion policies. In response, Trump rescinded his executive order that targeted the firm and could have cost it significant business.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Erik Ortiz |Lawrence Hurley |Allan Smith
The federal judge at odds with the White House over its immigration enforcement and now the target of impeachment calls driven by President Donald Trump is a bipartisan appointee whose three-decade career in Washington, D.C., has included cases that have favored Trump.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Gary Grumbach |Abigail Williams
WASHINGTON — The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent non-profit established by Congress 40 years ago, is asking a federal judge to immediately block the Department of Government Efficiency's attempted forced shutdown of the organization after what its lawsuit portrayed as a "takeover by force" of their headquarters building that took place with the assistance of the FBI, the Justice Department, and local D.C. police.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Jonathan Allen |Lawrence Hurley |Ryan J. Reilly |Dareh Gregorian
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have launched a multi-pronged attack on the judiciary, punctuated over the weekend by his decision not to comply with a federal judge’s order to halt the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador. It was not the first time the two-month-old Trump administration did not comply with a federal court. Judges have said their orders to unfreeze spending on a variety of foreign and domestic programs have been brushed aside by the president.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Jonathan Allen |Lawrence Hurley |Ryan J. Reilly |Dareh Gregorian |Matt Dixon
18 hours agoThe president’s order will remove security details totaling about 30 agents that protect the former president’s adult children. Hunter Biden and his half-sister Ashley Biden will be stripped of their Secret Service protection, Donald Trump announced Monday. “Hunter Biden has had Secret Service …
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Dareh Gregorian
WASHINGTON — A federal judge pressed a Department of Justice lawyer Monday over why the Trump administration did not comply with his order to temporarily halt deportations under an 18th century law and asked why key information was being withheld about the flights from over the weekend.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Nnamdi Egwuonwu
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended his allies Friday while calling for his political opponents to be jailed during a speech at the headquarters of the Justice Department that was prosecuting him just months ago. Trump called U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who helped dismiss his classified documents case, a "brilliant" judge, while condemning "horrible human beings" whom he accused of disparaging Cannon. "It's totally illegal what they do.
