May 13, 2021 · Mr. Durham now works for Attorney General Merrick Garland, though the Justice Department declined to say if the pair have discussed the probe. At his confirmation hearing, Mr. Garland pledged to...
The Special Counsel investigation was an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials, and possible obstruction of justice by Trump and his associates. The investigation was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019.
Nov 18, 2018 · The Impact Of A New Acting Attorney General On The Russia Investigation. It's still not clear what impact President Trump's appointment of a new acting attorney general will have on the Justice Department's Russia investigation led by Robert Mueller. Democrats on Capitol Hill are strategizing over the next steps. And so are Democrats in New York.
It's still not clear what impact President Trump's appointment of a new acting attorney general will have on the Justice Department's Russia investigation led by Robert Mueller. Democrats on ...
At the Justice Department's landmark headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, the big office on the fifth floor is now vacant.
President Trump cleared it out this week in the most-expected, least-surprising personnel move of all time, following month after month of verbal abuse for one of his earliest supporters in Congress, Jeff Sessions.
All the same, the long-serving Alabama politician seemed stunned as he blinked into the klieg lights as Justice Department workers clapped him out. With him was the man who had begun the day as Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, who concluded it as the top legal and law enforcement officer of the United States of America.
That includes the investigation into whether Trump's campaign may have conspired with the Russians who attacked the 2016 presidential election, the one being run by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The only person at Justice who Trump may like less than Sessions or Mueller is Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller after Trump fired another top onetime leader within the department: then-FBI Director James Comey.
Trump and his attorneys have argued that his authority under the Constitution gives him the power to fire anyone in the executive branch for any reason.
What does it all add up to? A Justice Department that is supposed to have been "independent" since Watergate arguably may be less "independent" than any time since then.