Carrie Johnson

The political firestorm over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has raised questions about how judicial nominees are evaluated. But could it lead to changes in the process?

Reports suggest that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may be leaving the Justice Department. This follows a New York Times story he suggested secretly recording President Trump.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein expects to be fired, and talk swirled about his fate with the Justice Department. Now he's scheduled to meet with President Trump on Thursday.

The New York Times reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed recording the president and entertained the idea of invoking the 25th amendment in order to remove him from office.

The deputy attorney general rejected a story that described him musing about secretly wearing a wire or conferring with members of the Cabinet about invoking the 25th Amendment.

The president wants to release Russia investigation materials out of transparency, he says. But national security pros say he's imperiling sensitive information and hurting DOJ in the long run.

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, has turned state's evidence.

Paul Manafort pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in order to avoid a trial that had been scheduled this month. What might Manafort tell the federal officials?

Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman won't go to trial in Washington, D.C. The deal presents a potentially ominous development for Trump, but the White House said the case has "nothing" to do with him.

Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort is preparing to plead guilty in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C. Also, the latest on explosions in Massachusetts and Hurricane Florence.

Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman to President Trump, has reached a tentative agreement to plead guilty and avert a trial in Washington, D.C.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort appears close to reaching a plea deal. The agreement would avert a second trial for Manafort, this time in Washington, D.C., scheduled to begin next week.

Judge Tanya Chutkan said both prosecutors and the defense had gone too far in their statements. She declined to release Maria Butina from pretrial confinement.

Donald Trump's former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his connections to Russian operatives in 2016.

The president told reporters he thinks the Justice Department should look into the identity of whoever wrote the column questioning his fitness for office, citing "national security."

McCabe faces potential criminal charges after the outcome of an internal investigation. McCabe says he has done nothing wrong and broken no law.

The former New York mayor says Democrats are welcome to investigate work he has done for foreign clients; a group of senators wonders whether he has broken the law.

President Trump's imprint on the federal judiciary will be felt for decades after he leaves the White House. He's confirmed a record 26 appeals court judges and dozens more for the lower courts.

W. Samuel Patten has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for work he did connected to a Ukrainian political party.

Lawyers for indicted Russian agent Maria Butina are trying to win her release. They're asserting prosecutors misrepresented the facts to smear her.