A former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney returned to O’Melveny & Myers on Monday as a partner in Washington, joining the health care practice group and congressional investigations tea...

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. is leaning on DLA Piper to push back against a lawsuit over a move to sell quicker access to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts.

Dhillon Law Group, Consovoy McCarthy and Jones Day and are among the players dominating legal work for the Republican National Committee this midterm cycle, Federal Election Commission records show.

DLA Piper’s defense of Donald Trump in Jan. 6 lawsuits marks a sharp pivot for the global law firm, which called for the president’s removal following the US Capitol riot.

Powerhouse law firms are preparing clients for a wave of congressional investigations should Democrats take the US House in midterm elections.

The House did not pass a short-term extension of a powerful surveillance tool Thursday morning as members headed out of town for a recess, all but ensuring the spy power’s statutory authority would la...

President Donald Trump on Monday sent to the Senate the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to fill the role permanently, teeing up what could be a bruising confirmation process for a T...

Key Democrats warned that President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence will make it more difficult to renew a key surveillance power, as lawmaker...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday that the Justice Department is scrapping its plans for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” after a wave of bipartisan backlash on Capit...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a federal prison sentence for her role in a sex trafficking scheme inv...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche offered a staunch defense of a new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” on Tuesday, while Democrats condemned the effort as a slush fund aimed at funneling taxpa...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a group of current and former congressional lawmakers are not barred from recovering damages in a case over whether members of Congress are owed back pay for years...

Democrats are mounting a multi-pronged resistance against the Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” saying the money amounts to a slush fund aimed at funneling taxpayer doll...

A former Trump Justice Department official on Monday criticized what he called the administration’s “shocking” settlement with Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, telling lawmakers that the d...

Rep. Max Miller filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife and her legal team in Ohio, saying they engaged in a “defamatory campaign” against the Republican lawmaker to falsely cast him as a violent and abus...

A federal appeals court appeared skeptical Thursday of a push from President Donald Trump to punish four major law firms, in a case that could outline the bounds of presidential power and have broader...

FBI Director Kash Patel denied allegations about his alcohol consumption Tuesday as Senate Democrats raised concerns about his leadership, pressing him on a series of rolling controversies at the agen...

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed members of Congress to continue to conduct oversight visits to immigration detention facilities without a seven-day notice, with one judge saying the Departme...

The Justice Department has agreed to return the cell phone of Rep. Andy Ogles, according to a law firm representing him, after a lengthy dispute in which the Tennessee Republican said he believed the ...

A House appropriations subcommittee Thursday advanced a draft 2027 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill that would provide $77.3 billion in discretionary spending, or a less than one percent decreas...

The alleged gunman accused of trying to breach a Washington ballroom in a failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump last weekend will remain in custody for the time being after a court appe...

The House passed a renewal of a key surveillance power Wednesday, a day before its statutory authority expires, sending it to a Senate that appears unlikely to pass that version of it. The House, in a...

The House is expected to vote as soon as Wednesday afternoon on a measure to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool for three years — a day before its statutory authority is set to expire — after Re...

House GOP appropriators released a draft fiscal 2027 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill text that would provide $77.3 billion in discretionary spending, or a less than one percent decrease from fi...

The House faces another floor showdown as soon as Wednesday over to reauthorization of a key surveillance authority, this time adding anti-central bank digital currency legislation and other changes i...

The California man who authorities say rushed toward the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner armed with guns and knives faces three criminal charges, as federal prosecutors on Monday accuse...

House Republicans on Thursday released a new proposal that would extend a powerful surveillance authority for three years, but it was not immediately clear if it would garner enough support to win pas...

A Justice Department watchdog office announced Thursday it will audit the department’s compliance with a bipartisan law that ordered the release of records on deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Fo...

A federal judge on Wednesday admonished a defense attorney for a man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the 2021 attack on the Capitol, telling the attorney he did not follo...

Congress faces a 10-day scramble before the statutory expiration of a powerful surveillance authority next week, after a collapse on the House floor laid bare the opposition to renewing the tool witho...

The Senate passed a short-term extension of a key spy authority on Friday, sending to President Donald Trump a patchwork agreement intended to give House lawmakers more time to work out a deal over th...

The effort by Republican leadership to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool collapsed on the House floor early Friday, in a late-night vote over privacy protections that left the future of the ren...

The House stalled Thursday afternoon on a push to reauthorize a key surveillance authority, as Republican leadership said they were still trying to find a path forward on the floor.

Key House Republicans expressed uncertainty Wednesday over whether there would be enough GOP support to clear a procedural vote on a powerful surveillance authority, a program that’s received staunch ...

Pamela Bondi will not appear for her scheduled deposition next week as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a panel spo...

The Trump administration is proposing $40.8 billion in discretionary funding for the Justice Department in fiscal 2027, a sharp increase as the White House looks to bolster federal law enforcement and...

President Donald Trump ousted Pamela Bondi as attorney general Thursday, closing out a tumultuous tenure punctuated by rolling controversies and attacks against the Justice Department’s traditional in...

President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-ru...

Three individuals who were on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in Florida seeking damages related to the use of force by police officers during the attack. The fede...

A sharply divided House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Thursday that would greatly expand an administration’s ability to install hand-picked officials for top prosecutor roles. The panel, in a 12...

Speaker Mike Johnson previewed a floor strategy Wednesday that would leave little room for Republican defections as he pushes to renew a powerful surveillance authority, with chamber leadership naviga...

Speaker Mike Johnson previewed a floor strategy Wednesday that would leave little room for Republican defections as he pushes to renew a powerful surveillance authority, with chamber leadership naviga...

A former staff member for Rep. Troy Nehls will get no settlement money in the dismissal of his lawsuit that alleged he was pressured out of his job because he was gay, according to the congressman’s o...

A coalition of states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Trump administration effort to impose certain conditions on billions of dollars for key federal nutrition programs from the Department of Agr...