“If Iran has, in fact, been harboring Al Qaeda operatives, especially recently, then the A.U.M.F. by its terms plausibly authorizes the president to use force against Iran,” said Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who ran the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel..…
WASHINGTON — Justice Department on Friday backed decision by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to defy request from Congress for President Trump's tax returns on the basis that it lacked legitimate legislative purpose... ... Justice Department on Friday..…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. . Other temporary facilities operated by the Department of Justice and the U.S. ..…
Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a rare and remarkable public statement Wednesday that charging President Donald Trump was not an option his office could consider. . Mueller, speaking from the Justice Department, said he's closing the special counsel's office and returning to..…
WASHINGTON — Four of the five inmates President Donald Trump's Justice Department plans to execute in the coming months are eligible for the federal death penalty because of provisions in anti-crime laws backed by 2020 Democratic Joe Biden.. ..…
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