One of the orchestrators of the January 6 riots has returned to Capitol Hill after being freed by Donald Trump’s sweeping grants of clemency...

Rhodes’ appearance came the day after he was released from prison as a result of Trump’s order of clemency benefitting the more than 1,500 people charged with federal crimes in the Jan. 6

After a tumultuous tenure clouded by two failed criminal prosecutions against the incoming president, Attorney General Merrick Garland is leaving the Justice Department the same way he came in: trying to defend it against political attacks.

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday.

A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S.

The Justice Department's new leadership directed prosecutors to potentially charge state or local officials who impede President Trump's immigration policies.

President Trump’s pardons in the Jan. 6 case abruptly ended the most complex investigation in U.S. history. It also raised questions about what he will do next against a department he has said is full of his enemies.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges against any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.

The Trump administration plans to prosecute state and local officials who resist federal immigration laws, according to a leaked Justice Department memo.

President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack on Monday.

Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly every January 6 defendant and sent the documentation to the Bureau of Prisons on Monday night.