The Justice Department is refusing to return $2,000 in restitution paid by Felicia Konold, a pardoned Arizona Capitol rioter.

The DOJ argues her conviction was final when she received President Donald Trump's pardon and hasn't been vacated, CNN reported Friday.

The Justice Department (DOJ) faced widespread scrutiny Tuesday over a new memo designed to shield President Donald Trump's communications from public view, but one legal expert argued it may have inadvertently told Democrats exactly where to investigate should they retake control of Congress in November.

On Monday, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo containing a newly formed legal opinion that the president could assert executive privilege over communications with “private” and outside advisers, so long as they related to “official presidential decision-making.” In essence, the DOJ argued that requests for executive communications would not apply to Trump's private communications in certain circumstances.

Lawyer Norm Eisen expressed shock on CNN Tuesday about the possibility of President Donald Trump's DOJ reviving charges against Olympic canoeist David Hearn.

Hearn was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by the administration.

Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor at the Department of Justice, was shocked to discover lawyers for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani offered the Department of Justice a $10 billion U.S. investment in exchange for dismissing criminal fraud charges.

Weissmann led the Department of Justice, or DOJ's, fraud section for two decades.

The Justice Department, or DOJ, inadvertently released former special counsel Jack Smith's sealed Volume II report to lawyers defending Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a former Fort Pierce federal prosecutor charged with stealing the document.

Volume II contains Smith's evidence regarding President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, a report Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon ordered be kept confidential.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice slammed the door shut on some January 6 rioters who had sued the government, according to a new court filing.

DOJ prosecutors in Florida argued in a new filing that a class of 35 rioters who sued the Capitol Police alleging "excessive force" were "forever barred" from bringing their claim because the statute of limitations had run out. The filing was published at a time when Trump is personally lobbying for Congress to establish the so-called "anti-weaponization" fund through legislation, a $1.776 billion fund that could pay people who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government.