2026-11-06
Jason Reding Quiñones, the US attorney who has overseen the Justice Department's so-called 'grand conspiracy' investigation into Donald Trump's rivals, announced Friday that he is leaving the department. John Eisenberg, who led the department's national security division, is also leaving, one of several officials to depart in recent days after sweeping Democratic wins in the midterm elections. Democrats have pledged to use their majorities in the House and Senate to conduct aggressive oversight of the Justice Department.
2026-10-31
The Justice Department has brought criminal cases against prominent critics of President Trump and filed election-related lawsuits against California and Alaska in the weeks before the midterm elections. NPR Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas said the pace is not normal by the department's own standards, which call for avoiding overt investigative actions in the roughly two months before an election.
2026-10-28
The U.S. Justice Department escalated several investigations and brought headline-making cases involving critics of President Donald Trump in the month before the 2026 midterms. The actions include a federal search of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, criminal charges against two former FBI officials, a revealed attempt to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, and an unsuccessful attempt to indict a former White House aide who gave disputed testimony about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Defense lawyers, Democrats and other critics said the timing and targets were political; the department rejected that interpretation.