WSKG - Site Search

Steve Bannon, once chief strategist to then-President Donald Trump, has been charged by the Justice Department with criminal contempt of Congress. Here, he is pictured in August 2018.

Justice Department charges Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress

Federal prosecutors charged Steve Bannon over his defiance of a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, third from left, speaks at the Department of Justice Wednesday to announce a team to conduct a critical incident review of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Justice Department launches review of law enforcement's response in Uvalde

Experts are already on the ground in Texas. They plan to review documents, interview law enforcement officers, and consult with families of victims and survivors.

White House Counsel Dana Remus, center, is seated next to former Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., right, as they listen during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

Dana Remus made legal history in the White House. Now she's moving on

Stuart Delery will replace her. Also, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will advise the White House on public engagement and Julie Rodriguez will be promoted to senior advisor.

The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., home to the U.S. government's death chamber. Executions there are set to continue even as the new administration prepares to take power.

U.S. To Continue Executions Through Transition In Break With Precedent

The Justice Department typically does not put people to death while a new administration is waiting to take power, but Attorney General William Barr plans more executions before Inauguration Day.

The main gate of the privately run Leavenworth Detention Center in 2016. At the time, the prison's operator was known as the Corrections Corporation of America but has since been renamed CoreCivic. Legal advocates are hoping the facility shuts down when its federal contract ends at the end of 2021.

Biden Ended Contracts with Private Prisons. So One May Turn To House Immigrants

A for-profit detention center in Kansas that's been plagued with violence may be trying to do an end run against a presidential executive order by moving to house immigrant detainees.

Civil liberties advocates say they fear that the kinds of measures that could be put in place after last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol could disproportionately hurt minorities.

Response To Capitol Riot Could Hurt Minorities, Civil Libertarians Say

They say new police and surveillance powers could, if history is a guide, be used against Blacks and other people of color in the justice system, not the white rioters who stormed the Capitol.

Gen. Lloyd Austin addresses military recruits during an induction ceremony in Tampa, Fla., in 2015.

Biden Expected To Nominate Gen. Lloyd Austin As Defense Secretary

Austin will bring to the Pentagon decades of military experience. He would be the first African American to lead the department.

Attorney General Merrick Garland pauses as he speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington on Wednesday, in advance of the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Merrick Garland vows to keep following leads to hold Jan. 6 rioters accountable

In a speech delivered Wednesday, the attorney general said the Justice Department "will follow the facts wherever they lead. ...The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last."

Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration lab in New York in 2019. The Biden administration is hoping to crack down on abuse of synthetic opioids in part by putting them in the most restricted category or "schedule" under the law.

A proposed Biden drug policy could widen racial disparities, civil rights groups warn

A coalition of civil rights and criminal justice reform groups said a White House proposal for restricting synthetic drugs related to fentanyl will not curb the overdose epidemic.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump flock to the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. Officials who were speakers at that rally are under scrutiny over the riot at the U.S. Capitol later that day.

A Lawsuit Against Jan. 6 Rally Speakers Forces DOJ To Consider Who's Legally Immune

The Justice Department is considering whether the federal officials who spoke at a Trump rally ahead of the insurrection were acting within the scope of their jobs that day.

Search results for