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The GOP lawmaker issued a number of subpoenas targeting Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade said Sunday that "search warrant affidavits are sealed in every case until after charges are filed."

Trump has railed against the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago home, during which agents seized 11 sets of classified documents.

The GOP lawmaker said "this is not an issue where violence is ever an answer," in response to the FBI's raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

While the Jan. 6 committee has done a masterful job in laying out the numerous federal crimes Trump committed in his desperate attempt to hold on to power — from conspiracy to defraud the government to obstructing an official proceeding to inciting a rebellion to witness tampering — the committee is virtually powerless to hold Trump accountable for his actions.

Members of the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, however, have expressed a desire to see the DOJ prosecute Trump.

There are over 400 criminal cases so far in the investigation of the U.S. Capitol riots, former acting U.S. Attorney for Washington Michael R. Sherwin has said.

The Biden administration can fulfill the promise to end the federal death penalty immediately and for many years to come without congressional action.

How the last days of Trump's presidency is handled relative to Trump being removed from office or not is one thing, but he must be removed from the political stage permanently.

The attorney general didn't purposely undermine President Trump's chances of winning a second term. But he sure didn't help.

State officials are working with the U.S. Attorney's Office and the U.S. Department of Labor to see if similar schemes are happening in other states.

"Geoffrey Berman was interim," Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. "He was appointed by the court as a temporary U.S. attorney holding the fort."

The man's body was discovered hanging from a tree in the city on Monday.

The antitrust cases against Google are watershed moments in consumers' fight against Big Tech.

Any lawyer who knows anything about federal sentencing knows that seven to nine years for a 67-year-old first offender for obstruction of Congress is grotesquely excessive.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is "someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Sessions was confirmed by a 52-47 vote.

Boente is a widely respected prosecutor, who was tapped by President Obama to become the U.S. Attorney in 2015.

She will be replaced by Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

With 10 days to go before Trump enters the White House, Sessions, 70, was the first of his Cabinet nominees to go before a Senate committee.

President Barack Obama will nominate Brooklyn prosecutor Loretta Lynch for his next attorney general at an event in the White House Roosevelt Room on Saturday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

The nation's first black attorney general will step down, President Obama said.