A retired Maui Fire Department Battalion Chief is accused once again of repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor.

The Justice Department is not expected to appoint an outsider to serve as special counsel to handle politically sensitive ...

The commission continues to accept transgender workers’ discrimination charges despite exiting some lawsuits, Andrea Lucas ...

That independent counsel should be a retired judge or lawyer of unimpeachable credentials, someone respected by law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys and reporters alike.

As a young lawyer, Kavanaugh was part of independent counsel Starr’s team. During oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case, Kavanaugh called the 1988 ruling known as Morrison v. Olson “one of ...

The current special-counsel regulation dates to 1999, the year Congress allowed to expire the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which inaugurated the role of independent counsel.That 1978 statute, a ...

Congress, scarred by the Starr experience, declined to re-up the independent counsel law, letting it expire with a legislative sunset in 1999.

Baltimore’s newly formed Police Accountability Board wants to explore having independent legal counsel, separate from the city’s lawyers. But it’s facing pushback from city government.

WASHINGTON — The Congressionally mandated Office of Special Trial Counsel officially stands up today with independent prosecution and referral authority for 13 UCMJ offenses known as “covered ...

Special counsels in the Donald Trump and Hunter Biden cases are doing their best, but a true independent counsel would be a better way to pursue justice, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Feldman wr… ...