The Office of Legal Counsel issues opinions that are supposed to bind the executive branch. The Trump administration has taken steps and made claims in tension with several of them.

As President Trump claims expansive and disputed powers, his administration has curbed the influential Office of Legal Counsel. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage has been writing about presidential ...

A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to temporarily stop funding legal education programs for people ...

The Justice Department is sharply criticizing a judge who halted enforcement of a White House executive order meant to punish ...

Sean Donahue’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel advanced on a party-line ...

"Perhaps, for the first time in any Government brief to this Court—the Government impugns its own counsel, whose candor the ...