Jeff Mordock is the White House reporter for The Washington Times. A native of Newtown, Pennsylvania, he previously worked for Gannett and has won awards from both the Delaware Press Association and the Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association. He is a graduate of George Washington University and can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
A federal appeals court Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, ruling it does not have legal standing to enforce a subpoena for former White House Counsel Don McGahn's testimony.
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected the Justice Department's bid to end the criminal case against Michael Flynn, giving the judge who wouldn't let the case go another crack at President Trump's former national security adviser.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has a reputation for targeting conservative and Republican political figures, but a review of federal cases by The Washington Times revealed that plenty of Democratic players also feel the sting of the office's aggressive prosecutions.
Federal agents arrested Steve Bannon, President Trump's former political strategist, on Thursday, charging him and three other Trump backers with fraud over their efforts to raise money to build a private border wall.
The Department of Justice will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State terrorists who admitted to killing U.S. aid worker Kayla Mueller if the United Kingdom agrees to share information on the pair, according to a letter released Wednesday.
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying documents used to continue the surveillance of President Trump's 2016 campaign aide Carter Page.
Federal officers involved in Operation Legend, a Justice Department initiative to assist cities plagued by violent crime, have made more than 1,000 arrests across the country, Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election, but campaign members' frequent contact with people linked to the Kremlin raised counterintelligence concerns, according to a bipartisan report released Tuesday.
A veteran CIA officer and former FBI linguist was charged Monday with selling U.S. defense secrets and the identities of CIA officers to China in exchange for cash and expensive gifts, including a new set of golf clubs.
Registered sex offenders nationwide now must report plans to travel overseas as part of a global crackdown on sex trafficking and sex tourism, the Justice Department announced Monday.
President Trump and legal scholars say the first prosecution from U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the Russian collusion probe has set the stage for more dramatic revelations, though the guilty plea in the first case didn't add much to what was already known about the Obama administration's Justice Department.
A former FBI lawyer will plead guilty Friday to falsifying a key document used to surveil ex-Trump campaign associate Carter Page, his lawyer confirmed.
Police officers across the country, angered by budget cuts and a lack of support from left-leaning politicians, are fighting back by walking off the job.
Justice Department investigators concluded Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian-Americans and White applicants, the department said Thursday.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson said Wednesday that fellow Republicans on his committee are blocking him from subpoenaing former FBI Director James B. Comey, former CIA Director John O. Brennan and others to discuss the Russian collusion probe.
Three men who each claimed to be an associate of R&B singer R. Kelly were charged Wednesday in separate schemes to harass, intimidate and bribe his alleged sexual abuse victims, federal prosecutors said.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Tuesday demanded FBI Director Christopher A. Wray address accusations that bureau officials lied to a Senate panel in 2018 about a notorious, unverified anti-Trump dossier.