Fox News host falsely accuses attorney general of perjury over school board comments
Fox News repeated falsehoods from a House Republican attack against the attorney general.
By Oliver Willis - November 17, 2021Fox News repeated falsehoods from a House Republican attack against the attorney general.
By Oliver Willis - November 17, 2021‘The Justice Department is sparing no resource to identify and bring to justice anyone, anywhere who targets the United States with a ransomware attack,’ said Attorney General Merrick Garland.
By Associated Press - November 08, 2021Do veterans and active-duty military deserve leniency because they served their country or tougher punishment because they swore an oath to defend it?
By Associated Press - November 06, 2021Lambda Legal sees victory in its fight for widowed LGBTQ people to receive Social Security survivors benefits they’re entitled to.
By Casey Quinlan - November 02, 2021Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) has been charged with concealing information and making false statements to the FBI.
By Emily Singer - October 25, 2021There is no indication the DOJ is heeding the calls of some members of the congregations to drop its quest for a death penalty and accept a guilty plea accompanied by a life sentence.
By Associated Press - October 24, 2021Just nine Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to punish the ex-Trump aide.
By Emily Singer - October 21, 2021But the process for sending him to jail isn’t so simple.
By Matt Cohen - October 19, 2021The pressure campaign by Trump and his allies included a draft brief the White House wanted the Justice Department to file with the Supreme Court to overturn the election results.
By Associated Press - October 10, 2021The gang at Fox News would rather the Justice Department focus on last year’s protests than the current attacks on school board officials as they try to enforce COVID rules.
By Oliver Willis - October 07, 2021The head of the FBI has said the Jan. 6 insurrection was an act of domestic terrorism.
By Emily Singer - October 07, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claims the Biden administration is trying to ‘intimidate’ and ‘silence parents.’
By Oliver Willis - October 06, 2021The Department of Justice is calling in the FBI to deal with a spate of violence and threats against school officials as Republicans rail against mask mandates and critical race theory.
By Emily Singer - October 05, 2021‘Texas enacted S.B. 8 in open defiance of the Constitution,’ the Department of Justice wrote in its complaint.
By Lisa Needham - September 10, 2021The head of the Bureau of Prisons is a Trump holdover who has been in charge as the coronavirus raged behind bars, infecting more than 43,000 federal inmates.
By Associated Press - August 01, 2021The Department of Justice said it will ‘vigorously prosecute’ the growing number of Americans who are making violent threats against civil servants.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2021‘Where we believe the rights of civil rights of Americans have been violated we will not hesitate to act,’ said Attorney General Merrick Garland.
By Associated Press - June 25, 2021Immigration judges abide by instructions set by the attorney general, and their courts are within the Justice Department.
By Associated Press - June 19, 2021‘I think it’s fair to say and fairly objective to say we don’t want taxpayer money to fund illegality,’ said tax law professor Samuel Brunson.
By Associated Press - June 19, 2021A report from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform found Trump asked the Department of Justice to file a lawsuit to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.
By Emily Singer - June 15, 2021Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz said he would examine whether data subpoenaed from Apple ‘were based upon improper considerations.’
By Associated Press - June 14, 2021Former White House counsel Don McGahn is the latest person to find out the Trump administration subpoenaed his communications record in a politically motivated leak probe.
By Emily Singer - June 14, 2021‘I believe the Inspector General should investigate this and other cases that suggest the weaponization of law enforcement by a corrupt president,’ said Rep. Adam Schiff.
By Associated Press - June 11, 2021‘The extortionists will never see this money,’ said the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.
By Associated Press - June 07, 2021‘No community should live in fear because of who they are, where they are from, or what they believe, and it is our goal to make that a reality,’ Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.
By Associated Press - June 04, 2021President Joe Biden called the Justice Department practice of obtaining reporters’ records ‘simply, simply wrong.’
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021If history is any indication, a slam-dunk sentence for Derek Chauvin is not guaranteed.
By Associated Press - May 30, 2021The pandemic ‘has further exposed and exacerbated inequities in our justice system’ as legal services were curtailed, President Joe Biden wrote.
By Associated Press - May 18, 2021Attorney General Merrick Garland suggested federal grants could be issued to local and state police departments to help them vet potential officers.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2021Former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller will tell Congress he was ‘committed to avoiding repeating’ a Kent State-type military shooting of civilians.
By Associated Press - May 11, 2021