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Under Article II of the Constitution, presidents are able to grant pardons for every federal crime– except for one. Here’s what you need to know.

President Donald Trump defended his allies Friday while calling for his perceived political opponents to be jailed during a speech at the headquarters of the Justice Department — an agency that was prosecuting him just months ago.

President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career, decrying in often profane terms his adversaries and casting himself as a victim of unfair and biased prosecutions.

Only a small fraction of the Public Integrity Section’s employees will remain in an office that had dozens of employees and oversaw cases nationwide.

Gibson, a supporter of Trump, lost his right to purchase or own a handgun after a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor conviction.

A former U.S. solicitor general who was brought in to help a federal judge decide whether to accept a Justice Department request to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to submit written arguments Friday. Judge Dale E. Ho in Manhattan appointed Paul Clement, who was solicitor general under President George W. Bush, two weeks ago...

A much-ballyhooed release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case devolved into anger and disappointment Thursday, with conservative figures and even Attorney General Pam Bondi alleging FBI agents were hiding the full case files.

The judge overseeing the Eric Adams corruption and bribery case is indefinitely postponing a trial scheduled for April, but has not ruled yet on whether he will sign off on the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the case with prejudice, according to a new order filed Friday. In his order Friday, U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho said...

The judge overseeing the Eric Adams corruption and bribery case is indefinitely postponing a trial scheduled for April. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports. 

Hundreds of lawyers and former prosecutors have signed a letter of support for federal prosecutors who resigned amid concern that political alliances or priorities were taken into account when making prosecution decisions. In the letter, obtained by NBC New York, the signees address federal prosecutors, saying that each of them devoted years “to pursuing justice on behalf of the American…

The sweeping pardons that President Donald Trump granted to Jan. 6 rioters in his first day back in office do not apply to a Capitol rioter who was separately convicted by a federal jury in Tennessee of plotting to murder FBI agents who investigated his actions at the Capitol, federal court says.

In a heated exchange Tuesday, a federal judge pressed the Justice Department on an executive order from President Donald Trump that directed the military to stop using preferred pronouns, arguing there was no link between pronouns and military readiness.

Jonathan Dienst with an update from the News 4 newsroom. 

A longtime federal prosecutor resigned Tuesday rather than carry out what she described as orders from Trump-appointed officials to take actions unsupported by evidence, according to a copy of her resignation letter obtained by NBC News.

The Department of Justice fired multiple immigration judges on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the decision and a statement from one of the judges on LinkedIn.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing pressure from within his party to resign from office following the Justice Department’s move to drop the mayor’s federal corruption case, with some Democrats implying Adams is compromised. The reactions comes as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and other high-ranking DOJ officials resigned Thursday after she refused an order to drop corruption charges against...

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned after refusing a DOJ order to drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Before quitting, Danielle Sassoon told President Trump’s new attorney general that she was “confident” Adams had committed the crimes.

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan stepped down amid orders to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit Thursday afternoon, after the Trump Justice Department ordered prosecutors in the SDNY to drop the case. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who was interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in an email to her staff after being ordered by the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.