Watergate records law is unconstitutional, White House lawyers established a new policy that experts say weakens safeguards.

The Trump administration asserts that a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.

White House staff are still following the “preservation” mandates of the Presidential Records Act, the Justice Department told a federal court as it pushes back on a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s disavowal of a Watergate-era documents law.

The changes were likely to affect Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department and Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.

Two watchdogs say internal White House guidance that text messages need not be preserved unless “they are the sole record of official decision-making” contradicted the law.

The CEO of Paramount Skydance, David Ellison, is seeking approval from the Justice Department for a proposed $111 billion merger with CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery

DOJ plans to turn over voter data it's collecting from states to DHS for use in immigration and criminal investigations, sources say.

The Justice Department’s move to end the inquiry into the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, reflected the political reality that President Trump, who has spent years trying to get rid of Powell and browbeating him to lower interest rates, would not be able to get his pick for the job installed while the investigation continued.