President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Justice Department said her “overriding objective” if confirmed “would be to return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the law.

Minn., that the Department of Justice would act independently of the White House if she were to be confirmed as attorney general.

In planned remarks to Congress, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department commits that "partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice will end" under her watch.

The U.S. Justice Department will not make public for now Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's retention of classified records, it said on Wednesday, citing the ongoing prosecutions of two associates of the president-elect.

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday released Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the last act of a prosecutor whose historic criminal cases were thwarted by Trump's November election victory.