Hartman characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be."

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the state of US democracy keeps her up at night in remarks that built on her dissents lamenting Trump administration attempts to expand presidential authority and the decisions by fellow colleagues so far backing that effort.

The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.

Trump fired Comey as FBI director in May 2017, after his frustration with the investigation into claims his 2016 campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

Joe Biden’s White House physician on Wednesday declined to answer questions during a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee, invoking his Fifth Amendment right as the Republican-led panel pushes forward in its probe of the former president’s mental fitness and decline.

“I got the quote,” Doocy said. “ [Anchor] John Roberts said, the DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein clients. Will that really happen?’ And [Bondi] said, ‘It’s sitting right now on my desk to review.”

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites.

James Ryan, the University of Virginia’s president, is resigning after a pressure campaign by the Trump administration and amid a Justice Department investigation into UVA’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Internal documents and interviews show that an overhaul led by Stephen Miller would scale back prosecutors’ control over investigations.