The exchange comes as disagreements between the court’s liberal and conservative blocs have become more public—and more personal.

The Justice Department is aiming to weed out immigration judges that it feels are ruling too slowly or aren't following the law, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, as the Trump administration seeks to remake the courts and cut down on the backlog of 3.

"I think they view us as purely political actors, which I don't think is an accurate understanding of what we do," Roberts said.

The DOJ is looking into whether policies that provided preferential treatment to illegal immigrants, which allowed them to avoid deportation, violated the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against U.

The Justice Department’s investigation found UCLA favored Black and Hispanic applicants over white and Asian American students.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — As judges push for upgrades to what they describe as a long-neglected courthouse, county officials have responded by compiling a roughly $77 million tally of improvements they say have been made to the Justice Center and court facilities over the past decade.

At a private event in Washington last month, Mr. Smith, the former special counsel, accused Justice Department leaders of targeting people for prosecution to please and impress the president.

ATLANTA (AP) — The federal government can keep the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday.