President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same

The firings come as a Trump appointee opened an internal review of the department’s decision to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses.

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.

Yesterday (Monday, January 27), Trump fired more than a dozen of attorneys, which a justice department official told CBS News that Acting Attorney General James McHenry concluded they couldn't 'be trusted to faithfully implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president'.

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,

The US Justice Department fired a number of officials on Monday who were involved in the criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump. "Acting attorney general James McHenry made this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to faithfully implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president,

Jack Smith, the DOJ prosecutor, faced criticism for his rush to indict Trump before the 2024 election, allegedly violating guidelines. Despite efforts, Trump was not tried before being re-elected president.

The single guiding fact of Jack Smith's prosecution — that he was working to indict, try, convict and jail Trump before the 2024 election — was something he could never,

The move breaks with federal norms against punishing civil servants for actions taken under a different administration.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told a CNN reporter Monday he believes President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has a path to the 50 required votes for Senate confirmation.

Trump fires Justice Department officials who prosecuted him because they cannot be ‘trusted’ - Several federal prosecutors who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith on criminal investigations