This spotlight is part of a Q&A series focusing on UChicago Law alumni whose career paths have taken them into public service.  Heidi Mueller, ’07, director of the Illinois Department of Children and ...

A southern Illinois judge has ruled parts of the state’s FOID Card Act are unconstitutional. White County Judge T. Scott Webb ...

President Trump's Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges of bribery and fraud against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. His predecessor, former New York City Mayor Bill de ...

US President Trump issued a full pardon for Rod Blagojevich on Monday. The former Illinois governor was impeached and ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The Justice Department appears poised to take a ... special interests — and not the American people,” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said in a Jan. 15 statement.

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation originating from the Biden administration and halting the pursuit of any ...

The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors ... noted a 2016 campaign rally at the University of Illinois Chicago that Trump abruptly scrapped as crowds of ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and not engage in any new cases, according to The Washington Post, issuing the order Wednesday as Republican ...