The Justice Department is forming a unit that would be focused on domestic terrorism to help fight rising threats that that has increased significantly in recent years.
The Justice Department has sued Texas on Monday after the state introduced redistricting plans for Texas' congressional delegation and the state legislature. The department alleged that Texas put Latino and Black voters at a disadvantage.
The Justice Department has charged former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress when he defied a subpoena issued by the select committee over the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against ride-hailing company Uber for allegedly overcharging disabled passengers through the imposition of extra waiting time fees.
A federal judge moved to temporarily block the enforcement of a Texas law that would prevent women from having an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Monday that the Justice Department will be looking for ways to challenge Texas' abortion law while protecting abortion seekers and providers.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on the death penalty while ordering the Justice Department to review its policies and procedures.
Weapons involved in the infamous U.S. firearms operation "Fast and Furious" have been linked to Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and the killings of three Mexican police officers.
An immigration judge recently testified under oath that 3 and 4-year-old migrant children can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in deportation proceedings, thereby saving citizens the costs of assuring that they are assigned taxpayer-funded attorneys.
Five of the world's largest banks --including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland-- have been fined approximately $5.7 billion for conspiring to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency market.
U.S. officials admitted that the federal government "erroneously" issued three-year work permits to about 2,000 people under President Obama's executive immigration action, despite the fact that a court order has delayed the plan's implementation.
Along with officially closing the federal investigation of the police shooting of Michael Brown on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report that finds evidence that the Ferguson police department has engaged in discriminatory practices targeting African Americans.
The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to release a report as early as this week criticizing the police department in Ferguson, Missouri for disproportionately targeting, ticketing and arresting African-Americans.
The FBI and Justice Department found the group was sending money and supplies, such as combat clothes and firearms accessories, to ISIS fighters in Syria.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a former Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden and later wrote a book about the operation. Matt Bissonnette, who penned "No Easy Day" under the pseudonym Mark Owen, may have revealed classified material, federal officials say.
