Progressive prosecutors, coming off one of the biggest years in their movement’s short history, are looking to 2020 with hope of winning key district attorney offices around the nation and boosting their influence with an overhaul of the system from within.

President Donald Trump is ignoring his attorney general’s public request to stop tweeting about the Justice Department

President Trump is facing rare disapproval from some of his most loyal allies: Attorney General William Barr and Senate Republicans.

House Democrats frustrated over the Senate’s acquittal of President Donald Trump are pushing their oversight efforts toward the Justice Department.

Attorney General William Barr publicly swiped at President Donald Trump on Thursday, declaring the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and open cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.”

Attorney General Bill Barr has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month as Democrats express numerous concerns about his Justice Department tenure, the committee said Wednesday. “We are writing to confirm your agreement to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on March 31, 2020,” Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and the 22 other Democratic members of the panel said in…

The U.S. attorney who had presided over an inconclusive criminal investigation into former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe was abruptly removed from that job last month in one of several recent moves by Attorney General William Barr to take control of legal matters of personal interest to President Donald Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department is filing suit against the state of New Jersey and the county that is home to the city of Seattle over so-called sanctuary policies that hinder federal immigration officers

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a close ally of President Donald Trump, said Sunday that the Justice Department has established a way to review information gathered in Ukraine by Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who has targeted Democrat Joe Biden and his son. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Attorney General William Barr told him during a conversation...

Rep, Jerry Nadler played a viedo clip of White House Counsel Alan Dershowitz from 1998 and a memo from Attorney General Bill Barr to show how both allies of President Donald Trump have said that abuse of power is an impeachable offense.

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday asked a judge to consider either reducing his three-year prison term or release him on a new sentence of home confinement and community service.

The Minnesota senator called the government shutdown an ‘outrage,’ and asked Barr what he would say to furloughed Justice Dept. employees.

President Donald Trump wanted Attorney General William Barr to hold a press conference to declare he broke no laws during his July phone conversation with Ukraine’s president in which Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Democrats, according to a person familiar with the matter. Now Trump is angrily lashing out at the revelation, first reported by The Washington Post....

The Justice Department has shifted its review of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter says. It’s a move that is likely to raise concerns that President Donald Trump and his allies may be using the powers of the government to go after their opponents. The revelation comes as Trump is already facing scrutiny...

President Donald Trump awarded Edwin Meese III with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his leadership within the conservative movement. In his acceptance speech, Meese showed his support for the current Attorney General William Barr saying, “I understand what you’re going through now.”

During an event in Louisiana, Attorney General William Barr said there were “serious irregularities” at the Manhattan facility where Jeffrey Epstein was found dead over the weekend.

Attorney General William Barr says he disagreed with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to determine whether President Donald Trump broke the law by obstructing his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. “I personally felt he could’ve reached a decision,” Barr told CBS News in an interview that aired Thursday. Read More

“We are in a constitutional crisis,” U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday after a House committee approved a measure that would hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt.

FBI Director Christopher Wray tells a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that he wouldn’t join Attorney General William Barr in calling the FBI’s surveillance on the 2016 Trump campaign “spying.”

President Donald Trump said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify before Congress, abandoning his previous declaration that he would leave that decision to his attorney general. Escalating tensions with House Democrats as they seek to bring Mueller before the House Judiciary Committee, Trump tweeted: “Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!” Democrats are seeking...