President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates to life in prison.

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin tells Politicon's "Highly Conflicted" podcast that Democrats will oppose any effort by Donald Trump to politicize the Department of Justice: QUESTION, HUGO LOWELL: Let me change gears,

Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, is the second federal judge to deny a Jan. 6 defendant’s request to attend Trump’s inauguration. U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, a Trump appointee, turned down a request Thursday from a felony defendant charged with unleashing chemical spray at a police officer.

A new rule Congress is set to vote on as soon as a speaker is elected would raise the threshold for a motion to vacate. If the rule change is implemented, it would require a lawmaker from the majority party to be joined by eight other co-signers from that party to force a vote on removing the speaker.

Mr. Biden’s pardon power — one of the most expansive powers vested in a president — will expire the moment that Trump takes the oath of office in 17 days. Mr. Biden has already commuted the sentences of dozens of inmates on death row and issued a stunningly broad pardon to his son, Hunter.

Trump has also been found liable in two civil cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, resulting in a combined $88 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation for his public denial of Carroll’s claims that he raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s. He is appealing both verdicts.

Elon Musk, David Sacks and Peter Thiel — three influential allies, all members of the so-called ‘PayPal Mafia’ — appear to be driving policy and staffing choices in Trump’s incoming administration.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department ... all 50 states combined that year. Outside of the federal system, there are over 2,000 people in the United States ...

The judge said that instead of incarceration he was leaning towards an unconditional discharge -- meaning the real estate tycoon would not be subject to any conditions.

Mock, serving his time in the federal prison in Sandstone, Minn., had been scheduled to be released in June of this year. He was earlier given credit for the nearly one year he spent in jail awaiting trial. He will now move to two years of supervised release and is under orders to make $2,000 in restitution.

President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to pardon most rioters on day one of his presidency, adding pardons will be decided on a case-by-case basis.