Covering the Justice Department during the second Trump administration

By Noah Caldwell,

Scott Detrow, Ryan Lucas

Published April 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM EDT

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Ryan Lucas shares insights into the administration's targeting of law firms for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Noah Caldwell

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Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

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Ryan Lucas

Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.

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