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Attorney General Pam Bondi has curtailed the agency’s anti-corruption efforts, ratcheted up immigration enforcement and redirected the civil rights divisionPam Bondi vowed at her confirmation hearing this year that “politics will not play a part” in her time as attorney general.Now she’s leading a Justice Department more visibly aligned with the political agenda of the White House than any in recent history.In less than two months, Bondi and other top department officials have wielded the law to shield President Donald Trump’s allies and strike at his political foes. They have curtailed anti-corruption efforts that were sources of irritation for the...

A federal judge on Friday found Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt of court for continuing to make false claims about two Georgia election workers after being ordered to pay them $148 million in a defamation case, hinting Giuliani could face jail time if he does not stop.U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington, D.C., on Friday blasted the former New York mayor and Trump attorney for continuing to falsely claim that former Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss manipulated the 2020 vote count in Atlanta. A jury found in December 2023 that he had...

U.S. prosecutors this week put a price tag on damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 breach — $1.5 million so far — and for the first time are asking defendants to cover some of the bill in plea offers, prosecutors and defense lawyers said. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington cited the damage estimate Wednesday in court and in plea papers filed in the case of Paul Hodgkins, 38. The Tampa crane operator pleaded guilty to one felony count of obstructing an official proceeding of Congress and faces sentencing July 19 in Washington. “Your client acknowledges that...