Justice Department

In little more than a week, the Trump administration has fired people who prosecuted the president and reassigned other career officials.

In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they 'could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda.'

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will the Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants.In the new book “Where Tyranny Begins,” Pulitzer Prize–recognized journalist David Rohde investigates how Trump systematically turned the country’s two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons.

After an extensive investigation of conditions for children in five juvenile detention facilities operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD), the US Department of Justice finds that there is reasonable cause to believe that TJJD is violating the constitutional rights of the children in their care.

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to temporarily block the new Texas abortion ban while its lawsuit against the state continues.

The position of Attorney General is among the most powerful in American government. As head of the Department of Justice and chief legal counsel to the…