A request for documents that was stymied by the Biden administration could be fulfilled — with gusto — by the new district ...

The special counsel and the world’s richest man have both been rebuked by courts for exercising power they were not ...

Special counsels are lawyers who conduct investigations where the Justice Department has a conflict of interest. Special Counsel Jack Smith resigned on Jan. 11 after submitting his two-volume ...

In December 2024, special counsel Jack Smith dropped his prosecution of Trump after Trump was reelected president, due to a long-standing Justice Department policy that bars the prosecution of a ...

Special counsel Jack Smith arrives to speak to the press at the US Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2023. Donald Trump was indicted on August 1, 2023 over his efforts ...

In February, Trump signed an executive order targeting another law firm that assisted special counsel Jack Smith. Smith had taken two cases against Trump, one for alleged illegal interference in ...

Former special counsel Hampton Dellinger said he was planning to pursue legal action to restore all fired probationary workers back to their posts before a court failed to keep him in his role.

US President Donald Trump issued Thursday an executive order targeting big law firm WilmerHale for their employment of individuals involved in the Mueller special counsel investigation, employment ...

The head of the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) is ending his legal bid to remain in his post after being fired by President Trump, calling into question the future of an office that has been ...

Special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia during the 2016 election, worked at the law firm before his appointment and after the probe’s ...

The decision was the last in a back-and-forth legal saga that started when President Donald Trump attempted on Feb. 7 to fire Hampton Dellinger, the special counsel, whose job included prosecuting ...