Kash Patel’s role in the leak investigation reflects a further dismantling of the wall that had separated the White House and the F.B.I.

On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kind of fund the Trump administration established this week.

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was indicted last year by a grand jury in Virginia, accused of lying and obstructing a congressional investigation over testimony he gave in 2020. The charge was later dismissed.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said on Monday that investigators were working to determine if the suspect had any connections to left-wing activists.

Representative Eric Swalwell of California, one of President Trump’s most vocal critics in the House, said that he was being targeted by the Trump administration.

Federal Park Police performed a traffic stop in Washington on Friday. President Trump has ordered federal law enforcement to help fight crime in the capital.

Jack Posobiec and several other conservative influencers were offered a preview of the Epstein files in February, hours before they were released publicly by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.

Emil Bove III, a top Justice Department official, at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday for an appeals court judgeship.

Ed Martin has used his authority to upend the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, as well as dismantle and delegitimize the Jan. 6 inquiry.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an arrest operation in Florida in 2023. Currently, immigration agents without a warrant can do little more than knock on a door and ask to come in.