Trump Aims to Use More F.B.I., Drug and Gun Agents to Pursue Immigrants
The Justice Department plans to bolster enforcement and deportation work in 25 cities across the United States.
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At Trump’s Justice Dept., Bondi Embraces Role of TV Messenger
Attorney General Pam Bondi has adopted a conspicuously performative approach, willing to execute White House directives with little fuss.
F.B.I. Director Walks Back Concerns About Trump Budget Cuts
After telling House lawmakers that the F.B.I. needed more resources, Kash Patel told senators that he agreed with a proposal to slash more than $500 million from the agency.
Son of El Chapo to Plead Guilty to Federal Drug Charges
Ovidio Guzmán López would become the first of El Chapo’s sons to acknowledge guilt in a U.S. federal courthouse, after federal investigators turned their attention from the drug lord to his children.
Pam Bondi Rolls Back Leak Inquiry Constraint Stemming From Fox News Case
The Justice Department’s new rules for leak inquiries make it easier for investigators to bypass a legal restriction on search warrants to seize news gathering records.
Justice Dept.’s Criminal Inquiry of Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms Internally
Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.
F.B.I. Reassigns Agents Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests in 2020
The move has raised concerns that the bureau is taking action against agents and analysts who were involved in situations denounced by allies of President Trump and the right-wing news media.
Supreme Court Considers Suit Over F.B.I.’s Raid of the Wrong House
The legal questions were tangled, but some justices seemed incredulous at a government lawyer’s defense of a botched operation involving a battering ram and a flash-bang grenade.
Torture and Secret C.I.A. Prisons Haunt 9/11 Case in Judge’s Ruling
Prosecutors have said they will appeal the decision, although they lost a similar appeal this year.
F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.’s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.