A lawyer appointed by judges to be the U.S. attorney for northern New York has been fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the process for selecting top federal prosecutors.

Federal judges defended their authority to select a new US attorney for the Northern District of New York after the Justice Department quickly fired the court’s newly appointed top prosecutor.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday that more than 1 million more files “potentially related to” late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been found by the Manhattan US attorney’s office — and that it “may take a few more weeks” to ...

The Justice Department has released over 3 million pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. This disclosure includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday that the government is complying with the Epstein Files Transparency Act,

The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.