October 9, 2026 · Executive Power & Institutional Control

Developing

DOJ Reportedly Investigates Jan. 6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson Over Her Testimony

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is investigating former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, reportedly over claims she lied to Congress, according to four people familiar with the matter. Routing the case...

October 2, 2026 · Constitutional Order & Rule of Law

Well supported

Judge Dismisses DOJ's Novel Use of the FACE Act Against Pro-Palestinian Protesters

U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden in New Jersey ruled October 2, 2026, that a Justice Department lawsuit accusing pro-Palestinian protesters of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act did not...

August 18, 2026 · Constitutional Order & Rule of Law

Disputed

Former Civil Rights Lawyer Alleges the Antisemitism Investigations of Harvard, Brown and Columbia Had Predetermined Outcomes

Rep. Jamie Raskin made public on Aug. 18, 2026 a whistleblower complaint from Haley Van Erem, a longtime Justice Department Civil Rights Division attorney, alleging that DOJ and HHS leadership pressed career staff to...

August 17, 2026 · Information Integrity, Press & Democratic Norms

Confirmed

Justice Department Will Send a Record 1,000 Monitors to Polling Places — After Losing More Than 70% of Its Civil Rights Career Staff

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who runs the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said in remarks to Bloomberg on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026 that the department plans to deploy about 1,000 federal...

January 13, 2026 · Constitutional Order & Rule of Law

Confirmed

Justice Department Declines to Investigate the ICE Killing of Renée Good — and Prosecutors Quit

On January 13, 2026, senior Justice Department officials declined to open a criminal civil rights investigation into ICE officer Jonathan Ross's fatal shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis six days earlier. Deputy...