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President Joe Biden speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Justice Department to probe underreporting of missing, murdered American Indians

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. Nearly 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019, accused of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to stealing prison property, sexually assaulting inmates and murder. Those arrested include Ray Garcia, the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Inside federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes

By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, listens to testimony during a House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on countering domestic terrorism at the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Schiff says Bannon indictment will force Trump allies to comply with Jan. 6 probe

By Joseph Clark and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 1, 2017, photo, Tom Garing cleans up racist graffiti painted on the side of a mosque in what officials are calling an apparent hate crime, in Roseville, Calif. A report released by the state auditor, Thursday, May 31, 2018, says California is underreporting hate crimes to the FBI and largely blame's Attorney General Xavier Becerra's state Department of Justice for not requiring local agencies to do a better job. Becerra immediately announced a new hate crimes prevention website and brochure, as well as more guidance for local law enforcement agencies. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) **FILE**

‘Huge priority’: FBI works to boost the number of hate crimes reported

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 20, 2020, photo, travelers request an Uber ride at Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

Justice Department sues Uber over wait-time fees for disabled customers

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in this file photo. On Nov. 8, 2021, Ms. Clarke's division announced it has launched an investigation into whether the Alabama Public Health Department is operating wastewater and infectious disease programs in a rural county in a way that discriminates against Black residents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

DOJ investigates charge of racial bias in Alabama wastewater programs

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this file photo, James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, speaks at on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. Mr. O’Keefe said on Nov. 5, 2021, that he “awoke to the news that apartments and homes of Project Veritas journalists, or former journalists, had been raided by FBI agents.” (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP) ** FILE **

FBI raided employee homes in Ashley Biden diary probe, Project Veritas says

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks as he stands next to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen during a news conference to announce the results of the global resolution of criminal and civil investigations with an opioid manufacturer at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Pool via AP)

Former Trump DOJ official refuses to answer questions before House Jan. 6 panel

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Texas Gov Greg Abbott signs Senate Bill 1, also known as the election integrity bill, into law with State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, front center left, looking on with others in the background in Tyler, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. The sweeping bill signed Tuesday by the two-term Republican governor further tightens Texas’ strict voting laws.(AP Photo/LM Otero)

Justice Department sues Texas, says state’s overhaul of voting laws violates Civil Rights Act

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Handcuffed inmates line up against the wall in a corridor outside their cells at the Washington, D.C. Central Detention facility (The Washington Times)

Public defenders demand release of all inmates after D.C. Jail flunks inspection

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

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

House Republicans demand answers why Garland involved security agency in school board memo

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

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

Biden’s Federal Bureau of Intimidation

By John A. Zadrozny

The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington, Oct. 22, 2021. The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. The justices are hearing arguments Monday, Nov. 1, in two cases over whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can mount federal court challenges to the law, which has an unusual enforcement scheme its defenders argue shield it from federal court review. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court takes up Texas law banning most abortions

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

Caroline McDonald, left, a student at Georgetown University, Lauren Morrissey, with Catholics for Choice, and Pamela Huber, of Washington, join a pro-choice rally outside the Supreme Court, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, as arguments are set to begin about abortion by the court, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Texas abortion law could lead to deluge of Supreme Court challenges to Constitution: Biden admin.

By Alex Swoyer - 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)

Leahy presses Garland on FBI mishandling of Larry Nassar probe

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason to rush into the case. The state filed its response Thursday to the Biden administration’s call on the high court to block the law and rule conclusively this term on the measure’s constitutionality. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

DOJ previews Supreme Court arguments against Texas abortion law

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Pool via AP)

Sen. Grassley says AG Garland has politicized DOJ ‘as far left as it can go’

By Emily Zantow - 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)

The National School Boards Association’s domestic terrorist debacle

By Tammy Bruce

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces plans to combat mortgage lending discrimination, at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden DOJ unveils plan to crack down on discriminatory financial lenders

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Baltimore Center Stage Pearlstone Theater, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says call to prosecute those who defy Jan. 6 commission subpoenas was ‘not appropriate’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times