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15 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 29, 2026.
WatchFederal prosecutors failed to persuade grand jurors to charge the former White House aide whose 2022 testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee angered President Trump and his allies.
Prosecutors are presenting evidence to a D.C. grand jury on whether the former White House aide lied to Congress, and the Civil Rights Division is handling the case.
Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis granted discovery in Alexandria, Virginia, over a fund born from Trump's settlement with the IRS. The attorney general has said the fund is dead; the plaintiffs say nobody ever rescinded it.
The attorney general says the fund is dead. But the document rescinding it was never signed by the people who created it — and a magistrate judge in Virginia just opened discovery into how it was built.
Plaintiffs who say police used excessive force at the Capitol had until Jan. 6, 2023, to file, the department argued Monday. The earliest claim it found was dated July 29, 2025.
WatchU.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly dismissed the case against four convicted Capitol rioters with prejudice, writing that no one should mistake his order for agreement with the Justice Department.
Two recent Justice Department moves align the agency with Trump's efforts to whitewash the events of January 6, 2021.
Two recent Justice Department moves align the administration with President Trump's efforts to whitewash the events of that day.
Todd Blanche's Capitol Hill meeting with Republicans over controversial compensation fund erupted into two-hour confrontation that derailed party priorities.
Two officers accuse the administration of creating a 'slush fund' to reward rioters and groups that committed violence on behalf of President Trump.
Capitol Police officers file lawsuit to block what they call a "slush fund" rewarding those who committed violence on behalf of the president.
DOJ moves the same day to drop the 2022 charges against Trump's longtime adviser, in an unprecedented executive-branch reversal of a completed conviction.
WatchIn an unprecedented reversal, the Justice Department moved Tuesday to vacate the convictions of Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes — who received sentences of 22 and 18 years respectively — sparking fury from Democratic lawmakers and former federal prosecutors who called the filing political interference.
The court vacated the appeals ruling upholding Bannon's jury conviction, letting the Trump DOJ proceed with dropping the case.
Former Trump aide's contempt of Congress conviction faces potential reversal as Court signals support for executive privilege claims.