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People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. For the first time in two years for many people, the American workplace is transforming into something that resembles pre-pandemic days. The U.S. has since seen COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations plummet. Cases have plunged from 455,000 a day two weeks ago to 150,000 on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Lawmakers alert Justice Department to ‘potentially criminal conduct by Amazon’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland is shown in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

States sue Biden, Garland over ‘domestic terrorist’ tag for protesting parents

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021 in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)

Sen. John Kennedy urges Justice Dept. to crack down on anti-Catholic crime, vandalism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb, Pool via AP)

‘Badly miscalculated’: Biden says Putin, Russia will pay price of invasion for years

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Department of Justice seal is shown before Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2002 at the Justice Department in Washington. (Nicholas Kamm, Pool via AP)

Biden administration replacing Trump-era ‘China Initiative’ with new plan for espionage probes

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, left, and Attorney General Merrick Garland, center, speak before President Joe Biden arrives for a meeting with members of his administration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Republicans demand Garland respect independence of Durham probe

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon pauses to speak with reporters after departing federal court, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Is Steve Bannon giving DOJ all the rope it needs?

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Illustration on politically weaponizing the DOJ and contesting elections by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Criminalizing political dissent is a dangerous game

By Phill Kline

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles in this Sept. 10, 2020, file photo. Two House Democrats are calling on the Justice Department to investigate so-called secretive "deputy gangs" within the agency that Mr. Villaneuva heads, saying such gangs are unfairly targeting Black people. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File) **FILE**

House Dems want DOJ to probe deputy gangs within the LA Sheriff’s Department

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland 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) **FILE**

AG Garland defends DOJ response to Texas synagogue attack

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Anti-death penalty group to rally in Washington, press Biden to end federal executions

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers founder, 10 others charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ linked to Jan. 6

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. The Justice Department says it is reversing its own legal opinion and will now allow federal inmates released on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic to stay out and not return to prison. Garland's announcement comes after months of pressure on the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

AG Garland builds reputation on the right for politicizing DOJ

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Partisan double standard on gerrymandering

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

In this April 25, 2006, file photo, U.S. Attorney John Durham speaks to reporters on the steps of U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

Special counsel John Durham has spent $3.8M on Trump-Russia FBI probe

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan shows a copy of the redrawn congressional map approved by the General Assembly this week, that is crossed out in red, during a news conference where he announced his veto of the plan in Annapolis on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, has the votes to override the governor's veto. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) **FILE**

Maryland governor urges Merrick Garland to sue his state over gerrymandering

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection says it has “no choice” but to move forward with contempt charges against Meadows. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Mark Meadows blasts Jan. 6 committee’s contempt vote, says probe is politically driven

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 that it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. (AP Photo, File)

Details of Emmett Till killing still a mystery as probe ends

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tells reporters she is introducing a resolution to strip Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., of her committee assignments for repeatedly making anti-Muslim remarks aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Democrats offer plan to free more prisoners by overhauling presidential clemency process

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning on May 14, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Justice Department upgrading curbs on foreign influence agents

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times