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In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. The Executive Office for Immigration Review is the arm of the Justice Department that oversees deportation proceedings whether immigrants are allowed stay in the U.S. or whether they are turned back to their countries. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Chief immigration judge quits amid Biden administration purge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden leaves after President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Hunter Biden probe is reaching critical stage: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media after exiting Air Force One, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden aims to curb crime wave by reviving troubled 1990s-era Clinton plan

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, listens as Attorney General Merrick Garland, left, speaks during a virtual meeting with family and independent farmers and ranchers at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, to discuss work to boost competition and reduce prices in the meat-processing industry. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s DOJ increases power and rewards political allies

By Zack Smith and Paul J. Larkin

Beagles wait in a pen before competing in the146th Westminster Kennel Club Dog show, Monday, June 20, 2022, in Tarrytown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Embattled Virginia research facility turns over beagles to Humane Society

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

In this April 3, 2019 file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York. Documents uncovered in a FOIA release show a PR staffer for Mr. Holder attempted to bully USA Today into dropping a libertarian writer who was critical of the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) **FILE**

Records reveal Obama administration’s secret campaign to silence critic

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey gives his state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, in Phoenix. Governor Ducey signed a series of bills Wednesday, March 30, targeting abortion and transgender rights, joining a growing list of GOP-led states pursuing a conservative social agenda. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Feds sue Arizona over proof-of-citizenship voting law

By Bob Christie - Associated Press

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as she offers an amendment as the House Rules Committee prepared the bipartisan Senate gun bill for the House floor, in response to the recent mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Marjorie Taylor Greene exhorts GOP to fight ‘two-tiered’ justice system, make it top campaign issue

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Jeffrey Clark, then-Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, on Sept. 14, 2020. Federal agents have searched home of Jeffrey Clark, a Trump-era Justice Department official. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

Feds search home of Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Steven Engel, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, from left, Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Attorney General, and Richard Donoghue, former acting Deputy Attorney General, are sworn in to testify as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Jan. 6 committee shows evidence of Trump’s ‘pressure campaign’ to overturn 2020 election

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Meta’s Facebook settling DOJ lawsuit alleging discriminatory housing ads

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Migrants released by the Border Patrol with notices to appear in court on Feb. 5, 2022, in Somerton, Ariz., wait for COVID-19 testing at a Regional Center for Border Health warehouse before being taken by charter bus to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Records obtained by The Associated Press show COVID-19 infection rates have plummeted among migrants crossing the border from Mexico as the Biden administration faces a critical decision whether to extend sweeping restrictions on asylum. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Unprecedented’ upheaval in immigration courts from Biden’s bid to reshape the agency

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An image of former President Donald Trump is shown on a screen as the House select committee tasked with investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol hold a hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, June 13, 2022 in Washington. (Jabin Botsford//The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

DOJ: Jan. 6 committee’s failure to provide witness transcripts is hampering criminal investigation

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Abortion-rights protesters display images of Supreme Court Justices during a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

GOP senators press Merrick Garland to arrest protesters at high court justices’ homes

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., pauses as he speaks to reporters as he leaves the hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jan. 6 committee chairman says panel won’t refer Trump for criminal charges

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon poses prior to an interview with The Associated Press, in Paris, May 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Steve Bannon dares Merrick Garland to pursue charges against Trump over U.S. Capitol riot

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks to announce a team to conduct a critical incident review of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, during a media availability at the Department of Justice , Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Justice Dept. names 9 to aid in review of Uvalde shooting

By Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens during an announcement of the creation of a new South Carolina Freedom Caucus based on a similar national group at a news conference on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

DOJ declines to charge Meadows, Scavino for defying Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, ranking member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, makes an opening statement as the panel holds a markup hearing to craft the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, massive legislation that is a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. The high cost of the bill, to help families and combat climate change, would be financed in part by increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP challenges Biden’s new pandemic prosecutor

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Crime scene tape surrounds Robb Elementary School after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Justice Department announces review of police response to Texas school shooting

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times