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The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has opened a review into whether special counsel Jack Smith’s team skirted any guidelines in carrying out their ...
Threats against federal judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in recent years, with threats against federal prosecutors rising from 116 to 250 from 2003 to 2008, [50] and threats against federal judges climbing from 500 to 1,278 in that same period, [51] [52] prompting hundreds to get 24-hour protection from armed U.S. marshals.
The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority comes from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
The OPR was established in 1975 by order of then Attorney General Edward Levi, following revelations of ethical abuse and serious misconduct by senior DOJ officials during the Watergate scandal. The order directed OPR to "receive and review any information concerning conduct by a Department employee that may be in violation of law, regulations ...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking over an investigation into corruption allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), a state prosecutor handling a separate case case ...
Trump has called Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith − who secured indictments against the former president on charges he tried to steal the 2020 election and hoarded classified ...
On November 8, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made a Freedom of Information Act Request to the Department of Justice asking for records of the special counsel investigation. He asked for every communication the special counsel's office had ever sent to "any New York State governmental office", "the Fulton County District Attorney's office ...
Jul. 24—AUSTIN — The U.S. Department of Justice made good on its threat Monday filing a lawsuit against Texas for its placement of a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande. The DOJ directed ...