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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

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 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

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 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 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

In this file photo from Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, talks about the approaching midterm election during an interview with The Associated Press, in Washington. The special congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote for Tuesday to recommend criminal contempt charges against Bannon after he defied the panel's subpoena. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

House recommends criminal contempt charges for Bannon

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this April 26, 2021 file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington. President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of hundreds of defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. The nominees announced Monday by the White House come as the Justice Department continues to round out its leadership team under Attorney General Merrick Garland, who traveled to Chicago last week to announce an initiative to crack down on violent crime and gun trafficking. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Garland’s moves draw criticism after pledge to depoliticize DOJ

By James Varney and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Lawmakers accuse Amazon of misleading Congress about its business practices

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this July 27, 2021, file photo, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Illinois Democrats are poised to approve new congressional district maps that would give Democratic candidates an advantage in elections over the next decade and eliminate at least one GOP-held district as the party fights to keep control of the U.S. House in 2022. Democrats who control state government released their proposed maps Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Pool via AP)

Kinzinger defends Biden over call to prosecute individuals defying Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Facebook users allowed to share advice, tips on crossing border illegally

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DOJ pushes back on Biden’s call to prosecute those who defy Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 9, 2021, photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a lawsuit to block the enforcement of a new Texas law that bans most abortions, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Garland blasted for unleashing FBI on school board squabbles

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This May 4, 2021, file photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Stafford County settles federal discrimination lawsuit, allows Muslim cemetery in Fredericksburg

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A federal judge held the director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections and the warden of the city’s jail in contempt of court on Wednesday, Oct. 13, and asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the civil rights of inmates are being abused. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had hauled the jail officials into court as part of the criminal case into Christopher Worrell, a member of the Proud Boys who has been charged in the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Judge calls for DOJ probe into treatment of Jan. 6 defendants at D.C. Jail

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, photo, anti-abortion demonstrators pray and protest outside of a Whole Women's Health of North Texas, in McKinney, Texas. Foes of the strict abortion ban passed in Texas are taking aim at companies that donated money to the bill’s sponsors, hoping consumers will pressure corporate America to join the fight against a surge of abortion restrictions. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) **FILE**

Biden DOJ urges court to reinstate order blocking Texas’ abortion ban

By Emily Zantow and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally on the campus of Drake University, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Senate probe: Trump pushed DOJ on election fraud but had ‘no impact’ on operations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 5, 2021, photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

GOP lawmakers alarmed Biden’s DOJ appears to be ‘policing’ parents’ free speech

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, April 19, 2021, file photo, a former felon holds a sign addressing voter suppression during a Poor People's Campaign assembly in downtown Jackson, Miss. The demonstrator was among speakers who called for an initiative to try simplify the way Mississippi restores voting rights to people convicted of some felonies, and other social issues. On Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, a federal appeals court considered a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Mississippis ban on voting rights for people convicted of some felonies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Top Justice official: Voter discrimination ‘alive and well,’ urges restoration of Voting Rights Act

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times