Ben Penn

The Justice Department is requiring all US attorneys to rapidly assign prosecutors for “emergency jump teams” supporting districts handling alleged assaults or obstruction of law enforcement, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg Law. A seni... See more

Ed Martin has a diminished role at the Justice Department, maintaining his title as pardon attorney after previously operating as a key advocate for the administration’s investigations of President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies. Martin remains DOJ’s pa... See more

The St. Louis-based US attorney overseeing the FBI search warrant executed on Fulton County’s election office Wednesday received a special appointment by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate election integrity cases nationwide, said two people famili... See more

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to respond to allegations that she committed travel fraud and had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, marking the first signs she could be losing support from key Repub... See more

The Justice Department is carrying out the Trump administration’s fraud division initiative with existing personnel who’d be supervised by the deputy attorney general—a departure from the White House’s assertion that it would run the operation. DOJ’s prop... See more