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Shan Zhao, owner of On On Cop Suey restaurant, looks at his business while cleaning up Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. after it was damaged in overnight protests following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown. (Associated Press)

Obama demands Ferguson looter prosecution, eyes race-based police hiring

By Phillip Swarts, Kellan Howell and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 10, 2010 file photo, Leroy Watson holds a sign in support of hundreds of young people participating in a youth immigration rally in Chicago. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Chicago area next Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 to detail his expansive executive action aimed at keeping roughly 5 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally from deportation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

Justice Dept. releases legal backing for Obama immigration moves

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, with Italy's Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando, and Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs, and Citizenship. Holder spoke after a U.S.-E.U. meetings that include discussions of the issues of foreign terrorist fighters in Syria, transnational organized crime, cybercrime, judicial cooperation, and other areas of mutual concern. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Justice Dept. collected nearly $25B in fiscal 2014

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2014 file-pool photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks with Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol at Drake's Place Restaurant in Ferguson, Mo. As local authorities in Missouri near the end of their investigation into the Ferguson shooting, a separate, ongoing federal civil rights review of the entire police department holds the greater potential to refashion the agency and spur long-lasting change, experts say. The Justice Department, which is investigating the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown along with a county grand jury, is more than two months into its probe of the Ferguson department&#8217;s practices. The civil rights inquiry, relying on data and interviews, is searching for any pattern of racial bias in how officers in the predominantly white department interact with the majority-black community. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File-Pool)

Probe of Ferguson police could spur broad change

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Illustration on government abuse of civil forfeiture laws by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ANDREW C. McCARTHY: The menace of civil forfeiture

By Andrew C. McCarthy

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Justice Department puts fake cellphone towers on Cessna planes to spy on Americans

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This 1943 file photo shows Nazi officers talking with citizens of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. An Associated Press investigation found dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced out of the United States. (AP Photo, File)FILE -

Lawmakers move to strip former Nazis of benefits

By Richard Lardner - Associated Press

Jonathan Gruber has put the Obama administration in a tough spot as it defends the Affordable Care Act. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jonathan Gruber, Obamacare architect, recast as bit player amid uproar over remarks

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Department of Justice headquarters in Washington (Associated Press)

Heads of dog-fighting ring get record prison terms: Justice Dept.

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FBI Director James B. Comey speaks during a news conference in Portland, Ore., in this Oct. 1, 2014 file photo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

AP demands FBI never again impersonate journalist

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 15, 2014 file photo Attorney General Eric Holder reacts to aggressive questioning from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Newly released emails show Holder used terse language to describe his feelings about some Justice Department prosecutors who were critical of him during the fallout from the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Holder’s Fast and Furious emails: ‘Some people can kiss my ass’

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 28, 2014 file photo, Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York speaks during a news conference in New York. President Obama chose Loretta Lynch as attorney general on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, which would make her the first black woman in the position. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Obama names Loretta Lynch as Eric Holder’s replacement as attorney general

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Image of Justice Department Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ORRIN G. HATCH: Why the rush to a new attorney general?

By Orrin G. Hatch

A police officer tries to keep protesters from advancing farther into the parking lot at the Ferguson, Mo., police station, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Activists have planed a day of civil disobedience to protest the shooting of Michael Brown in August and a second police shooting in St. Louis last week. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Justice Dept. announces new training for Ferguson cops

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Illustration: Shoveling jobs by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

Immigration agency nepotism ‘pervasive,’ federal investigators find

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An election worker lays out "I Voted" stickers for voters after they complete their ballots, inside a polling center at the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's office, in Boulder, Colo., on Election Day, Tuesday Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Justice Department says it is closely monitoring elections

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Eric Holder (Associated Press)

Justice Dept. turns over 64K pages of withheld Fast and Furious documents

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The wanted posters of Osama Bin Laden, left, and Khaled Shaikh Mohammad are displayed at the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum, Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Ex-SEAL under investigation for Osama bin Laden disclosures

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A training hand grenade found in a World War I training trench is seen at the Iowa National Guard Base at Camp Dodge, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Johnston, Iowa. Excavation is underway at the camp as part of an archaeological dig to learn more about trench complexes built for training soldiers in World War I. Camp Dodge, originally established in 1909, was one of 16 U.S. Army installations across the country to be transformed for training from 1917 to 1919. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Justice Dept. watchdog faults agency grenade probe

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is at the center of the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-walking scandal. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

Over 15,000 ‘Fast and Furious’ records withheld under Obama executive privilege

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times