Tag: Prosecutorial independence
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The Justice Department convened a special grand jury in Washington, The Washington Post reported Aug. 12, 2026 — a rare body officials say could let prosecutors pursue the capital's largest cases. Unlike an ordinary...
Trump urged U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Aug. 7, 2026 to reinstate charges against people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, writing on Truth Social that she should re-visit her hastily made...
President Trump said in the Oval Office on Aug. 3, 2026 that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro "made a mistake" and "folded like an umbrella" by moving to dismiss the prosecution of David Hearn, a...
The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll committed perjury in depositions connected to her civil lawsuits against Trump, with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago handling the...
On April 24, 2026, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced on X that she had directed her office to close its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, writing, "I have...
In late September 2025, days after Trump publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, a federal grand jury...
Erik Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, resigned on September 19, 2025 after the White House gave him the choice of stepping down or being fired. Reporting attributed his removal to his...