The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a rare bipartisan letter to President Trump demanding an explanation for his firing of 17 inspectors general (IG) in one night. The rebuke said Trump violated the law by failing to give Congress 30 days’ notice and a rationale for the removal for each of the

For now, it seem lawmakers have settled on a bipartisan and largely toothless strategy: Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) penned a letter to Trump on Tuesday demanding that he “provide Congress with a written communication that contains the ‘substantive rationale,

One of 17 government watchdogs ousted by President Trump said that the move was “a potentially existential threat” to a crucial government oversight tool. “I view it as a potentially

The Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the panel's top Democrat asked U.S. President Donald Trump to detail his rationale for firing 18 inspectors general that provide oversight at U.

The Department of Justice fired officials in now-dismissed criminal cases against Donald Trump. Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated several individuals, citing distrust in their ability to implement the President's agenda and aligning the action to end government weaponization.