U.S. Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL) delivered a passionate endorsement of Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi during a U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary business meeting, where Bondi’s nomination was advanced to the full Senate for confirmation.

President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and commuted the sentences for 14.

Trump has vowed to end the "weaponisation" of the Justice Department and has set about nominating and appointing allies to top posts in the department. Smith himself resigned from the Justice Department shortly before Trump took office, and both federal cases have effectively ended.

institutional experience that is invaluable to the Justice Department’s mission, including that of protecting the national security of the United States,” said David Laufman, a former senior ...

Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

Neither case came to trial and Smith -- in line with a long-standing Justice Department policy of not ... charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an ...

The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves, 26, of Sebring pleaded guilty in to conspiring to smuggle migrants into the United States.

President Donald Trump chose from his most loyal supporters when he created his Cabinet and appointed others to key roles within his administration.

While President Trump granted clemency last week to more than 1,500 people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, at least two Florida men who were among those defendants have yet to celebrate.

The Department of Justice said in a release Phillip Mak was a self-employed businessman who from 2008 through 2020, earned approximately $10.3 million in income.

Two Ukrainian nationals who were extradited from Thailand to the United States in September 2024 have been sentenced on charges related to labor-staffing companies they operated in Key West and