Alan Feuer

The possibility that people who ransacked the Capitol could get money from the government they attacked is the latest head-spinning twist in President Trump’s effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6.

The indictment was an extraordinary escalation of the Trump administration’s multifaceted pressure campaign against Cuba’s Communist government.

Two recent moves aligned the department ever more closely with President Trump’s own efforts to whitewash the events of that day.

Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents.

Defense lawyers are increasingly accusing the Justice Department under President Trump of using its powers to prioritize the president’s political imperatives above the pursuit of actual justice.

The motion was particularly significant because it asked the judge overseeing the initial suit against the I.R.S. to examine the terms of the deal.

A bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges on Wednesday asked the judge who oversaw President Donald Trump's remarkable lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to reopen the case and conduct an inquiry into whether the hasty deal to resolve it could be challenged as an act of fraud.

The ruling by the judge, Kathleen M. Williams, was a significant blow both to Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department.

By Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche arrives for a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, on May 21, 2026.

A federal judge will revisit a plan drafted by a group of Trump allies that posed remarkable conflicts of interest, even for an administration riddled with them.