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State and federal prosecutors are squabbling after President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is reportedly considering pursuing “highly unusual” federal charges against the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk, NBC News reported Saturday.

Kirk was assassinated in September while speaking at an event at Utah University, and his suspected killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested two days later. While Robinson already faces multiple state charges, including aggravated murder, the DOJ is now considering pursuing federal charges and painting the murder as an “anti-Christian hate crime.”

Former Fox News personality Jeannine Pirro took center stage in a New York Times report examining the Donald Trump Department of Justice's struggle to secure grand jury indictments.

According to the report, DOJ prosecutors and Trump appointees in U.S. Attorney offices are experiencing an unusually high rate of failure in obtaining indictments, let alone convictions, as part of the president's agenda.

While former real estate lawyer turned prosecutor Lindsey Halligan has drawn the most scrutiny for mishandling cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Times reports that Pirro may have the poorest track record overall.

Pirro, who served as a prosecutor before becoming a conservative media figure, notably failed to secure a conviction against Sean Dunn, who was prosecuted for throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Washington, D.C.

As the Times' Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer reported, "In recent months, grand jurors in Washington spurned efforts to indict or ultimately convict anti-Trump activists: a woman who posted a threat against Mr. Trump on Instagram and, most famously, a Justice Department employee who tossed a sandwich at federal officers."

Pirro, who leads the Washington D.C. office, appears to have the highest rate of unsuccessful prosecutions.

"That distinction appears to belong to Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, whose office failed three times to obtain an indictment against a woman who pushed an F.B.I. agent against a wall during a protest over the summer," they wrote. "Even when Ms. Pirro's subordinates changed course and moved forward on misdemeanor charges that did not require an indictment, a trial jury shut them down again, acquitting the woman altogether."

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, may be positioning herself for a presidential pardon after receiving what critics describe as preferential treatment in federal prison. Maxwell was recently transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas following an unusual interview with the Justice Department in which she reportedly sought to distance President Donald Trump from Epstein’s crimes. The move has raised eyebrows among legal observers and advocates for Epstein’s victims, particularly as no administration officials have ruled out the possibility of a sentence commutation or pardon.

Speaking with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown said Maxwell appears to be calculating her next steps carefully. Brown suggested Maxwell is acutely aware of the sensitive information she possesses about Epstein’s network and those who enabled his crimes. If a pardon does not materialize, Brown speculated that Maxwell could begin leaking damaging details as leverage, signaling to powerful figures that she “knows where the skeletons are buried.” According to Brown, Maxwell may be waiting to see how the political and legal landscape evolves before making her most aggressive move.

Colorado officials are bracing themselves for an all-out “battle” against President Donald Trump as they seek to get ahead of the president’s pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former county clerk who was jailed in connection with the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, The New York Times reported Saturday.

“This is so far beyond the pale,” said Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, the Times reported Saturday. “No one has thought to do this because it is so clearly against our constitutional system of government.”

President Donald Trump is setting his sights on Washington, D.C.’s public golf courses, with a particular focus on East Potomac Golf Links – situated on a prime stretch of riverfront real estate – according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal report.

The push grew out of an unusual logistical problem: what to do with the dirt generated by Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing. While aides floated dumping it on the Ellipse, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum pitched a more strategic idea – hauling the soil to East Potomac, the public golf complex Trump hoped to renovate, which sits on low ground and would need fill to rise above the Potomac River floodplain for any major redesign.

Top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill came together this week to praise a prominent law firm and government watchdog group – even as the firm remains locked in a bitter legal fight with President Donald Trump’s administration.

According to a new report in Politico, lawmakers from both parties attended a bipartisan event celebrating the release of “When Congress Comes Calling,” a newly updated handbook on congressional investigations published by Jenner & Block in partnership with the Project on Government Oversight.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to return files that had been illegally seized from former FBI Director James Comey's ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman, All Rise News' Adam Klasfeld reported.

The files were taken as part of the criminal indictment against Comey for false statements and obstruction, which has now been dismissed.