The judge in the case gave little signal of how she intended to rule, but her promise to decide within two weeks was a clear sign that she wanted to move quickly.
President Trump put Lindsey Halligan in charge of the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia with explicit public instructions to go after his rivals.
The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from continuing state-level prosecutions.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump, at a commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan in September.
The Justice Department moved an inquiry that appeared initially focused on the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan to South Florida and is beginning to recruit line prosecutors.
The investigation into Muriel E. Bowser, which is being handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, could face significant hurdles because of the known facts of the case and recent turmoil inside the Justice Department.
The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.
The filing appeared to be an effort to construct a narrative that James B. Comey had leaked information to the news media without actually tying such assertions to the claims made in the indictment against him.
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, has argued that the charges he is facing should be thrown out as an act of vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration.
Few places have felt the effects as palpably as the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which is deeply enmeshed in the workings of government and has filed criminal cases against President Trump.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, has begun to quietly accelerate a list of “special projects” touching on subjects that have piqued President Trump, including investigations into people and issues he reviles.
The prosecutors were put on leave after filing a sentencing memo in the case of a man who showed up armed near the home of former President Barack Obama.
The proposal was the latest twist in a byzantine saga that has transformed the Salvadoran migrant into one of the best-known symbols of President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers, called the plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to send his client to Liberia “punitive, cruel and unconstitutional.”
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