A federal judge is refusing to allow the Justice Department to intervene in California’s ongoing mail-in ballot counting, warning that the Trump administration’s request to segregate 20,000 ballots to vet voters’ citizenship would “wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway.

Bill Essayli, First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California, insisted that the decision has no immediate effect on his authority.

The Justice Department's request marked an unprecedented attempt to get involved in the state's elections.

A federal judge in California has rejected the Justice Department's push for an emergency order to have California segregate roughly 20,000 ballots

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Republican Bill The ruling is the latest roadblock to the Trump administration’s effort to extend handpicked acting U.S. attorneys beyond the 120-day limit set by federal law.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Bill Essayli, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, is unlawfully serving as the top prosecutor in Los Angeles. U.S.

The West Coast panel's ruling won't be binding in Illinois. But the question has new relevance here, given that Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros was installed by judges and he remains at the center of the "Broadview Six" scandal that exploded at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

The Trump administration illegally fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of ex-FBI Director and Trump critic James Comey, as a Justice Department prosecutor, a judge ruled Monday, sharply rebuking the administration’s authority to terminate career federal employees it dislikes.