Reason

Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel Concludes: Constitution Prohibits Continued Federal Prosecution of President-Elect

From Special Counsel Jack Smith's filing in U.S. v. Trump: It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent ...
Fox News

JONATHAN TURLEY: Judge's Special Counsel ruling may be the setback Trump admin was looking for

Late Saturday, Washington D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law in firing Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel. Jackson’s ...
Roll Call

Special counsel seeks dismissal of criminal cases against Trump

Special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith sought Monday to dismiss the two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, citing internal Justice Department opinions about prosecutions of a president. Smith ...
Fox News

Jordan demands Smith retain all records related to Trump prosecutions as special counsel's office winds down

FIRST ON FOX: The House Judiciary Committee is concerned that special counsel Jack Smith and prosecutors involved in the investigations of now President-elect Donald Trump will "purge" records to ...
Aclu.org

Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ) Interim Response to FOIA Request Seeking the Presidential Policy Memorandum and Memoranda Concerning the Use of Lethal Force Abroad in "Collective ...

Aclu V. Dod – Foia Case Seeking Biden Administration’s Presidential Policy Memorandum. Explore Case.
Reason

DOJ Argues That Agency Head Cannot Delegate Power To Appoint Inferior Officers

In 2005, the Office of Legal Counsel said this issue was unsettled. But a brief in the Alina Habba litigation takes a firm position. The Constitution allows Congress to vest the appointment power of ...