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 ...

The DOJ’s thinking on Trump’s federal cases flows from a 2000 memo by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel ... conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official ...

Elliot Gaiser to be the assistant attorney general leading the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing a Justice Department official.

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 ...

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said ...

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

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