The Justice Department is at the center of multiple major developments this week, from a new report alleging political weaponization under former President Biden, to fresh efforts to reverse January 6th convictions, to an unusual visit connected to an inquiry involving the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Our justice correspondent, Ali Rogan, joins us now with the latest. So, Ali, let's start with this legal effort to drop the convictions connected to the most serious crimes related to January 6th.

What more do you know?

Yeah, so to understand this latest news, it's helpful to go back to the beginning of President Trump's term right after inauguration when he issued a blanket pardon for most of the January 6th rioters,

more than a thousand people. Trump did not pardon everyone, though. There were 14 members of

the extremist groups, the proud boys and the oathkeepers whose sentences he commuted,

meaning he reduced them, but he didn't outright pardoned them.

Those people included Oathkeeper's head, Stuart Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison

and was among, had the most serious convictions against him.

So those 14, once those commutations came in, they were released from their sentences, but their cases

were still making their way through the appeals process. Now what has happened is the Department

of Justice is asking the D.C. Appeals Court to completely dismiss these cases with prejudice.

That means that the cases will permanently be closed. And the DOJ said in a short filing that this is in the interests of justice. This is, however, a major blow to those attorneys who previously were at the DOJ and prosecuted these January 6th cases, many of which had already been wiped away. But some of them today said that this was a reminder that the administration does not care about constitutional due process, Jeff.

And separately, the Justice Department released a report alleging that the Biden Justice Department weaponized the agency against its perceived enemies, which is the

very thing the Trump Justice Department is accused of. How did this come to be?

Yes. This is the first product of the so-called weaponization working group, which is something

that a former attorney general, Pam Bondi, stood up. The stated goal was to uncover

instances of the Biden administration using the levers of

government power to achieve political ends. This report is about the Biden DOJ's application of a law

that criminalizes interfering with someone who is seeking to access reproductive care,

including abortion.

It's known as the Face Act.

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