Several family members of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán have entered the United States as part of a negotiation in a case against one of his sons.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ed Martin Jr., who will be the Justice Department’s new pardon attorney after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said Tuesday that he plans to scrutinize pardons that former President Joe Biden issued on his way out of the White House.

The reassigning of some 2,000 federal agents would signal a sharp escalation of efforts to enact a crucial element of President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Two senior Justice Department officials appointed by President Donald Trump to run the Library of Congress were denied access on Monday, according to a person familiar with the interaction.

The DOJ charged Sinaloa Cartel leaders with narco-terrorism and seeks life imprisonment for their drug trafficking activities.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has been appointed to serve as the acting librarian of Congress, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman confirmed on Monday, after President Donald Trump recently fired Carla Hayden.

The US Marshals Service faces potentially competing obligations, as President Donald Trump flexes presidential power, to the executive branch that houses it and to the federal judges it’s sworn to protect.

In lawsuits challenging Trump administration actions, judges have accused the Justice Department of offering flimsy evidence and inadequate answers.

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