Special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations into President-elect Trump in a final report released publicly early Tuesday morning, saying his determinations were free from political interference and that, if permitted to proceed, his cases would have likely secured a conviction. Smith made the claims both in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and...

The first part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Donald Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a challenge to Maryland's handgun licensing requirement after gun rights advocates said it ran afoul of the Second Amendment.

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs knows she is outnumbered this legislative session, since Republicans expanded their majorities in the statehouse after the last election.

Senate Judiciary Democrats want Attorney General Merrick Garland to preserve records related to the Justice Department's Trump investigations because they anticipate President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, plans to "weaponize" the Department against those involved in the probes.

As wildfires consumed over 5,000 buildings in Los Angeles last week, killing 24 people, Democrats in Sacramento had far more pressing business to attend to: allocating $50 million to attack a presidential administration that hasn’t even taken office yet. Asked if now was really the best time for a special legislative session dedicated to “Trump-proofing” […]

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said on Monday that tying the debt limit to California aid for the recent deadly wildfires it has faced is “not meant as a penalty.” Earlier in a conversation with NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill,” Burman asked Rounds about the potential of fire aid being “tied to increasing the debt...

Attorneys for President-elect Trump made an eleventh-hour bid to block the release of the volume special counsel Jack Smith’s report dealing with election interference. The emergency petition to U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, filed just after 10 p.m., comes less than two hours before the Justice Department is set to release the Jan. 6...