The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke are eminently qualified for senior positions in the Justice Department. So why are Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton painting these two nonwhite women as radicals?

The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether the Florida congressman had sex with an underage girl. He’s responded with strange, self-contradictory claims.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland awakened a violent chapter in our history—and vowed to write a new one.

Biden has taken some critical first steps in making the Department of Justice more representative of America, but there’s more work to be done.

The nation’s overlapping economic and political crises call for a new crusade against the curse of bigness.

It’s looking as if Joe Biden might not follow in the footsteps of his supereffective predecessor. Sad!

The attorney general could not deliver the corrupt boons the president sought, but it was not for want of trying.

How Biden treats his predecessor could determine the fate of American democracy

After four years of corruption and venality, can the country’s law enforcement agency be saved?

From Purdue to Google, what explains the Trump administration’s recent surge in white-collar cases?

Why officials at every level are implicated in the department’s worst abuses of the Trump era, starting with its family separation policy

Truly independent immigration courts could help undo the harm that’s been inflicted by the Trump administration.

How the president has used William Barr and other officials to turn the government into his personal fiefdom

He claims to be just a public servant, while wantonly disregarding the rule of law—and it’s imperiling the election.

Thanks to the Trump administration’s signature mix of incompetence and corruption, America is knee-deep in fraud and corporate malfeasance.

Sex trafficking prosecution has been framed as a universal pursuit people can unite around, but that’s a fantasy.

The head of the Department of Justice is suddenly struggling to be an effective election-year consigliere for President Trump.

Trump’s attorney general sees himself as a grand cultural inquisitor.

With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.