Ben Penn

A Trump-appointed federal judge demanded Eastern Virginia’s top prosecutor Lindsey Halligan explain the validity of her continued self-identification as US attorney after another judge found she was illegally appointed. The Tuesday night order gave Hallig... See more

Ousted Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro has hired prominent criminal defense lawyer Barry Pollack, who long represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as his counsel in Manhattan criminal proceedings. Pollack, a veteran Washington trial lawyer, filed... See more

Attorneys for former CIA Director John Brennan asked Miami’s chief federal judge to block the Justice Department from potentially prosecuting their client before Donald Trump-favored federal judge Aileen Cannon. In a highly unusual public letter, the defe... See more

The Justice Department’s solicitor general effectively ordered Brooklyn prosecutors to abandon two FIFA bribery convictions amid pushback from their Trump-appointed US attorney—potentially unraveling dozens of other international soccer corruption cases a... See more

The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to three people familiar with the situation. Such an investi... See more