The Department of Justice filed the litigation on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Western Division. The plaintiffs say the state was in violation of ...

Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus ...

During oral argument in the birthright citizenship cases, Justices Kagan and Barrett seemed very troubled by Solicitor General Sauer's description of the Department of Justice's "general" policy ...

Senator John Cornyn asked the Department of Justice to investigate proposed Muslim Development EPIC City last month. The U.S. Department of Justice is opening an investigation into a proposed ...

The U.S. Department of Justice says a recent data breach of a California consulting firm exposed data of Catholic clergy abuse survivors in nearly a dozen bankruptcy lawsuits. In a May 6 letter ...

May 7—SAN ANTONIO — The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the results of Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated enforcement effort to identify, track and arrest child sex predators.

Learn more. The Maine Department of Education is broadly denying claims made by the Department of Justice that the state is violating Title IX by allowing transgender women to compete in women’s ...

The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law ... Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis was removed from the Trump case and fined, and is now under further investigation.

In another blow to civil rights under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice’s civil rights division has reassigned all managers working in the department’s voting section and ...

The Justice Department terminated hundreds of grants this week, effectively slashing the budgets for organizations across the country that assist crime victims and fight both gun violence and ...