WASHINGTON — On her first day as President Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi promised to remove politics from criminal prosecutions and to restore the “integrity and credibility” of the Justice Department. She established a “weaponization working group” to identify instances in which the “department’s conduct appears to have been designed to achieve political objectives.” But it took
Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s nominee for attorney general, engaged in a tense exchange with Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday that resulted in praise from conservatives on social media. “You have an incoming president who said, ‘I have the absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice
Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two unsuccessful federal prosecutions against President-elect Donald J. Trump, resigned his post this week, according to an announcement buried in the footnote of a legal filing. Mr. Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor who lost a protracted battle with the Trump legal team in appellate courts and the
The House on Thursday passed legislation that would impose sanctions on officials at the International Criminal Court, making a frontal assault on the tribunal in a rebuke of its move to charge top Israeli leaders with war crimes for their offensive against Hamas in Gaza. The bill instructs the president to freeze property assets and
Getty Images A Post Office miscarriages-of-justice campaigner at the High Court The government is to review the future oversight of private prosecutions, in light of the Post Office Horizon scandal and wider controversies that suggest there are currently insufficient safeguards to prevent abuse. Private prosecutions are cases brought to criminal courts without the involvement of
Republican attorneys general are putting President-elect Donald Trump’s prosecutors on notice, urging them to halt “political prosecutions of the incoming president.” “The cases brought against President Trump, particularly the criminal prosecutions, had nothing to do with crime,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told Fox News Digital in an interview this week. “They had everything to
The government is set to order an independent review of rail fare prosecutions and enforcement by train companies following reports of disproportionate action against passengers by revenue protection teams. The BBC understands that Transport Secretary Louise Haigh will ask the Office for Rail and Road to look at how fare evasion is dealt with. Train
Families of the Grenfell Tower disaster victims may have to wait years for prosecutions, regardless of the strength of failings identified in today’s landmark report into what went wrong. The Metropolitan Police are still investigating a range of possible offences including corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter, as well health and safety issues. But they
Getty Images As many as 74,000 prosecutions for alleged rail fare evasion in England and Wales are set to be quashed following a landmark ruling. UK rail companies had been fast-tracking alleged ticket dodging offences using a process called the single justice procedure (SJP), which allows magistrates’ hearings to be held behind closed doors. But