Laws governing several, lesser-known agencies protect certain officials from removal, except for cause. Trump is betting ...

President Trump is pardoning officials charged with corruption and is halting a law banning bribery of foreign officials. NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin, The ...

Trump’s pick for FBI director gave clear answers to some senators’ written questions but appears to have hedged about his ...

Steve Bannon, the former White House’s chief strategist under President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to felony fraud for helping misleading donors who supported building a southern U.S. border wall.

The Trump administration is facing new legal challenges around federal funding and the DOGE accessing sensitive treasury data. National Columnist for the Washington Post Philip Bump, MSNBC Legal ...

The slew of President Trump's actions and executive orders so far align with the Project 2025 blueprint. MSNBC legal ...

A judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's federal buyout program. MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin breaks it ...

A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's federal employee buyout program until Monday.

The Trump administration says that Elon Musk is now a "special government employee." Musk says he and President Trump are ...

MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin interviews Alexis Loeb, a former federal prosecutor who worked on charging January 6th ...