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 Justice Department to temporarily stop funding legal education programs for people facing ...

One significant guardrail has been the highly respected Office of Legal Counsel. Under Trump and Bondi, the office has been ...

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

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

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

The letter, on official letterhead of the Department of Justice, was sent on Monday to Mr. Zelinsky, now a partner at the Zuckerman Spaeder firm. Prior to that, he was an assistant United States ...

As Trump administration lawyers assess whether it is legally viable to send American citizens who have committed violent ...

Any lawyer who is counseling companies on privacy measures needs to take notice of Texas,” Troutman Pepper Locke attorney ...

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral ... on Tuesday allowed the Justice Department to temporarily stop funding legal education programs for people ...

A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children in the United States ... which include the Department of Health ...