WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday it will drop a civil case that sought to recover hundreds of emails from a personal account Peter Navarro used during his time as White House trade adviser during the first Trump administration.

In a terse motion filed in federal court in D.C., the DOJ said the government and Navarro had agreed to dismiss the suit with prejudice. No explanation was given for the decision. The motion was signed by Elizabeth Shapiro, the deputy director of the DOJ's civil division, and Mark Nobile, an attorney with the law firm Schulman Bhattacharya representing Navarro.

The DOJ sued Navarro in 2022 after the National Archives determined he had not turned over copies of hundreds of emails from his personal ProtonMail account that he was required to under

See Full Page