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Appears in 46 stories · Last updated Nov 11, 2026
Runs the Model Cities Initiative and issued the awards
The Justice Department picked four jurisdictions from 47 applicants to split nearly $300 million for local policing. On November 9 it named the dollar figures: more than $68 million for St. Louis and more than $63 million for Jackson, Mississippi. The White House promoted the awards the next day.
Updated 47 minutes ago
Unsealed indictment on November 10 charging three men over the Fairford plot
A farmer's call from a lane near RAF Fairford at 1:36 am on September 27 led police to five British men in vans carrying petrol. Police found no explosives. Eight men have since been arrested; two were charged under the National Security Act on October 27, and one of them, Nouman Essghir, 24, is in custody awaiting a November 20 hearing at the Old Bailey.
Updated 3 hours ago
Seeking to vacate convictions won under the previous administration
Steve Bannon was convicted by a jury in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress and served four months in prison. On November 5, 2026, the Justice Department asked the judge who presided over that trial to erase the conviction. Bannon's lawyers did not object.
Updated 4 hours ago
Appealing the § 611 ruling to the Eleventh Circuit; dropped its California ballot suit on Nov. 7 after the Supreme Court denied relief.
A federal judge in Miami dismissed a criminal case against a noncitizen accused of illegally voting in 2020 and ruled that 18 U.S.C. § 611, the 1996 law making noncitizen voting a federal misdemeanor, is unconstitutional as applied to her. The Justice Department has appealed to the Eleventh Circuit.
Updated Yesterday
Appealed the dismissal; has not sought emergency relief in the Ninth Circuit
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's suit to block certification of Alaska's Senate race on November 1, and the department appealed the same day. Alaska voted on November 3. Democrat Mary Peltola led Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan by 2,517 first-choice votes on November 9, with about 220,000 ballots counted.
Running a criminal inquiry into Megaspeed
A U.S. investigation into whether Nvidia AI chips were being smuggled to China through Singapore stopped moving at the Commerce Department in late 2025. The pause followed contact from Nvidia's general counsel to the agency that oversees chip export controls.
Updated 2 days ago
Says it will work with Democratic Congress on oversight
Democrats won the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms and will take control on Jan. 3. They hold at least 54 Senate seats, with Alaska and Mississippi still uncalled, and passed the 218-seat House threshold. Hakeem Jeffries is set to become the first Black speaker; Chuck Schumer will run the Senate floor.
Dismissed its California lawsuit November 6; barred from demanding ballot segregation in Washington until November 19
The Justice Department sent California and Los Angeles County a list of about 20,000 registered voters on October 13 and asked officials to set aside their ballots. Both refused. On November 4, an 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled 6-5 that the department may keep asking, and may keep warning that counting a challenged ballot is a federal crime.
Sued Utah over voter data; judge dismissed the case Oct. 23. Sent 11 monitors to Salt Lake County for the Nov. 3 election.
Utah held its Nov. 3 election with federal monitors watching all 40 Salt Lake County vote centers, there to check Spanish-language access and disability compliance. The Justice Department sent 11 monitors; one was barred from acting as a poll watcher because they were not eligible to vote in Utah.
Deployed 12 monitors to six Salt Lake County polling sites on Nov. 3
Twelve Justice Department employees worked in pairs at six Salt Lake County polling sites on Nov. 3, the county's top election official said. The department did not name the sites, and Clerk Lannie Chapman said she had 'no concerns' about voters' access.
Updated 4 days ago
Defending Interior and NPS; subject of ethics inquiry
The East Potomac golf course is set to close Nov. 15 for a championship-level renovation. For months, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge that no final plan existed, even as President Trump announced the closure on Truth Social.
Updated 5 days ago
Settled antitrust case against RealPage
RealPage asked a federal judge on October 28 to leave the injunction in place, and New York's attorney general replied on November 3, urging the court to reconsider. The request to revive the state's ban on algorithmic rent-setting is now fully briefed and waiting on Judge Valerie Caproni.
Updated 6 days ago
Deployed roughly 1,000 monitors nationwide on Nov. 3, including teams in Jefferson and Fayette counties; said monitors would observe from outside Kentucky polling places and that no FBI or ICE agents would serve.
Federal election monitors worked Kentucky's Nov. 3 election from outside a 100-foot boundary at polling places in Louisville and Lexington, after local and state officials refused them entry. Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said about a dozen Justice Department employees were expected in Louisville as civil monitors, not law enforcement. His office told the DOJ that Kentucky law did not authorize routine federal monitoring inside polls.
Updated Nov 1
Issued the ADA Title II web accessibility rule
Every page the City of Grand Rapids publishes online now carries a federal compliance requirement. On October 27, the city's Fiscal Committee approved a three-year, $140,000 expansion of its GovStack website contract to add automated accessibility tools.
Updated Oct 30
Prosecuted the case
A federal court in Virginia sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months in prison on October 29, 2026. Agha, known online as Th3Pr0, ran phishing operations for Bashar al-Assad's regime. The conspiracy compromised 47 Western media, corporate, NGO, and government targets.
Said it disagrees with the ruling and will appeal
A federal judge ruled on October 26 that the Justice Department illegally fired Maurene Comey, a career prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey. Judge Jesse Furman ordered back pay from her July 16, 2025 termination through December 20, 2025, and the department says it will appeal.
Updated Oct 28
Filed 31 voter data lawsuits; lost 27, with three pending and one voluntarily dismissed. Says it will appeal the Utah ruling.
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking Utah's statewide voter registration list on October 23. Judge David Barlow ruled the list is not a record that came into the Lieutenant Governor's possession under Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, so the state need not produce it. He dismissed the case with prejudice.
Updated Oct 27
Filed forfeiture action and returned proceeds
The Gambia's reparations commission has received $2,573,414.10 from the sale of former president Yahya Jammeh's mansion in Potomac, Maryland. The money sits in a Central Bank of The Gambia account reserved for reparations.
Updated Oct 26
Prosecuting Zhang after a federal indictment on conspiracy and foreign-agent charges
Wanying Zhang pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court on October 23 to charges that she surveilled the Seattle-area family of Taiwan President William Lai's son for China. The judge set a pretrial hearing for November 12 and a four-day trial starting November 30 at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana.
Filed statement of interest and lawsuits against New York and Vermont climate superfund laws
Two federal judges have ruled that New York's Climate Change Superfund Act is preempted by federal law. Judge Brenda Sannes blocked the $75 billion program on August 31, and Judge P. Kevin Castel issued a permanent injunction on September 23. The Northern District entered final judgment the next day.
Updated Oct 21
Prosecuting Maduro and Flores
Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's former president, pleaded not guilty in a New York federal courtroom on October 15 to charges he conspired to torture political opponents. Judge Alvin Hellerstein entered the plea after Maduro twice refused to answer directly, calling the allegations “false accusations and false testimony.”
Updated Oct 20
Directed staff to use 'super intelligence' in official communications and court filings
Federal agencies are moving at different speeds to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence.' NASA pushed its second round of website and title changes live on October 16, two weeks early, while other agencies have made only partial switches.
Reversed its longstanding enforcement of the integration mandate
A federal judge in Texas vacated the 'most integrated setting' requirement from Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act on September 23, after the Justice Department stopped defending its own rules. The order strikes the definition and several related provisions that have governed federally funded disability programs for nearly 50 years.
Released millions of Epstein-related documents in January 2026
Norway's parliament opened public hearings on September 30, calling 11 current and former foreign and development ministers to explain the Foreign Ministry's 130 million kroner ($13.5 million) in grants to a New York think tank tied to Jeffrey Epstein. The money went to the International Peace Institute between 1997 and 2018, while Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen led it from 2005 to 2020; Epstein also funded the institute.
Updated Oct 19
Prosecuting both federal cases in the Southern District of Florida
After seven years as a federal fugitive, Colombian businessman Álvaro Pulido appeared in a Miami courtroom Tuesday and was ordered held in federal custody. He faces two indictments accusing him of laundering more than $2 billion stolen from Venezuelan government programs.
Updated Oct 14
As of October 2026: Negotiated settlement; fund abandoned after backlash
Trump, two of his sons, and the Trump Organization filed a $10 billion suit against the IRS on January 29, 2026, over a contractor's leak of his tax returns. In May, the case was dismissed and the parties announced a settlement that released federal claims against Trump's family and created a $1.776 billion fund.
Updated Oct 1
As of September 2026: Brought first-ever ATRC case
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court went 30 years without a case. On Sept. 11 the Justice Department announced its first: Nazira Haji Zada, a lawful permanent resident in Fort Worth, Texas, was deported to Afghanistan after conceding she was an "alien terrorist."
Updated Sep 13
As of August 2026: Prosecuting non-custodial crypto developers under the unlicensed money transmitting statute
A federal judge has ruled that a crypto protocol can be a money transmitter even when its operators never control users' funds. Judge Katherine Polk Failla rejected the no-custody defense at the center of the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet cases, letting the prosecutions proceed.
Updated Aug 31
As of August 2026: Led the seizure with FBI
The US Justice Department and FBI seized three internet domains on August 26, disabling two hacking platforms that Chinese state-sponsored operators used against NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Justice Department, and the US Senate. The takedown shut down QScan and QTRouter, tools the group known as QTFY had run since at least 2018.
Updated Aug 27
As of July 2026: Retains a review role over settlements
Companies and universities that take Energy Department money now face a much bigger in-house fraud penalty. On July 13, 2026, a DOE rule raised the cap on administrative false-claims cases from $150,000 to $1 million per claim.
Updated Jul 13
As of May 2026: Released Epstein files that triggered the investigation
Nearly four centuries ago, the last time British police arrested a senior royal, the monarch lost his head. On February 19, 2026, Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew and brother of King Charles III, on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He's the first senior royal to face criminal investigation in modern history. The next day, police executed search warrants at Royal Lodge, a 30-room Windsor estate, and Wood Farm in Norfolk, seizing potential evidence.
Updated May 29
As of May 2026: Under pressure from both parties over Epstein file releases
No former president has ever been held in criminal contempt of Congress. On January 21, 2026, the House Oversight Committee voted 34-8 to advance a contempt resolution against Bill Clinton, with nine Democrats crossing party lines to support it. A companion resolution targeting Hillary Clinton passed 28-15, with three Democratic votes.
Updated May 22
As of May 2026: Supported petitioner
Federal courts have debated for decades whether restitution is criminal punishment or a civil remedy—a distinction that matters because the Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause bars retroactive increases in criminal punishment. On January 20, 2026, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act is criminal punishment, so defendants cannot be held to payment terms that didn't exist when they committed their crimes.
As of May 2026: Conducting criminal investigation into Fed Chair
On January 30, 2026, President Trump nominated former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed Chair when Powell's term expires in May. Gold, which had surged to a record $5,626 per ounce amid the constitutional crisis over Powell's criminal investigation, plunged 11% in hours as investors bet Warsh would preserve central bank independence.
Updated May 20
As of May 2026: Conducting antitrust review of merger
Getty Images and Shutterstock announced a $3.7 billion merger on January 7, 2025. The two largest stock photo companies will control roughly 75% of the global market. Getty shareholders get 54.7% of the combined company, Shutterstock gets 45.3%.
Updated May 19
As of May 2026: Providing warrants and forfeiture pathways that make sea actions legally defensible
The U.S. Coast Guard is now chasing a third Venezuela-linked tanker in international waters near Venezuela—under a judicial seizure order. Two other tankers have already been stopped in the past 11 days, including one dramatic helicopter boarding that the administration amplified on social media.
Updated May 15
As of May 2026: Filed the appeal; represents the administration in the consolidated litigation
Harvard won. A federal judge said the government unlawfully cut off Harvard's research money—then ordered the taps turned back on. Now the Trump administration is appealing, keeping a cloud over a sprawling research portfolio that runs from medical breakthroughs to national-security science.
As of May 2026: Houses the Attorney General and oversees the rescheduling rulemaking track
Trump's executive order instructing DOJ to fast-track marijuana's move to Schedule III immediately triggered a familiar split. Public health and industry groups cheered the potential research and tax impacts, while House Republicans organized opposition, urging Trump to keep marijuana in Schedule I.
As of May 2026: Primary enforcement authority for the TikTok sell-or-ban law
The deal closed on January 22, 2026. TikTok's U.S. operations now belong to TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC—a new entity where Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX each hold 15%, existing ByteDance investor affiliates hold 30.1%, and ByteDance itself retains exactly 19.9%.
As of May 2026: Administers federal pardons and has scrutinized Colorado’s handling of the Peters case.
President Trump pardoned former Mesa County, Colorado clerk Tina Peters in December 2025 over her nine-year state prison sentence for letting election conspiracy activists copy voting-machine data. The pardon has no legal effect on her state conviction, yet it triggered an escalating confrontation.
As of May 2026: Ordered to release Epstein and Maxwell records under tight statutory deadlines
Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but his paper trail has led to immediate legal battles. On January 30, 2026, the Justice Department released more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images.
Updated May 14
As of May 2026: Ordered to launch an AI Litigation Task Force targeting state AI laws.
Donald Trump just turned AI regulation into a states' rights knife fight. His new executive order creates a Justice Department "AI Litigation Task Force" to attack state AI laws. Washington can threaten to withhold $42 billion in broadband funds from states that don't comply.
Updated May 11
As of May 2026: Provides the legal framework and forfeiture process for tanker seizures like the Skipper.
A US Coast Guard team fast-roped from helicopters onto the supertanker Skipper off Venezuela's coast. Within hours, President Donald Trump was bragging in Washington that the United States had just seized one of the world's largest tankers and would likely keep the oil.
As of May 2026: Brought and is now moving to drop the Lopez–Full Play case amid wider anti‑corruption retrenchment
U.S. prosecutors spent years proving that Hernan Lopez, a former Fox International Channels CEO, and the sports marketing firm Full Play bribed South American soccer officials to lock down lucrative TV rights. A Brooklyn jury convicted them in 2023.
Updated May 10
As of May 2026: Bringing criminal cases against Dubranova and coordinating broader actions against Russian cyber actors
A 33-year-old Ukrainian woman now sits at the center of Washington's latest cyber drama. U.S. prosecutors say Victoria Dubranova helped two Russia-backed hacker crews hit water systems, food facilities, and other infrastructure, turning online "hacktivism" into covert state work.
As of May 2026: Executive branch department at the center of disputes over Trump prosecutions and alleged 'weaponization'
In November 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed veteran prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee two high‑risk investigations into Donald Trump: his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents at Mar‑a‑Lago. Both probes produced federal indictments in 2023, placing a former president on track to face criminal trials over alleged election subversion and mishandling of national‑security secrets.
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