The federal prosecutor who received orders to drop charges against Eric Adams said that the Trump administration was seeking the mayor’s cooperation on immigration enforcement.

DOJ lawyers pride themselves on working for an organization that is unique among federal agencies in its independence from politics—for now.

Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a ...

A crisis at the department over the Eric Adams case is an early test of the criminal justice system’s resilience against a ...

As Democrats ponder how best to position themselves for a looming spending confrontation, they are finding novel ways to put ...

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...

Federal prosecutors in Washington asked a judge to drop charges against Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, after several ...

President Trump attempted during his campaign to distance himself from the right-wing blueprint to overhaul the federal ...

NEW YORK — Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case, has quit over the Justice ...

This kind of conflict was inevitable. It is extremely surprising, however, that the conflict would be sought and stoked just ...

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If the president’s defiance continues, the standoff will create the prospect of a constitutional crisis, and it will be the ...