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In this July 24, 2019, photo, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., asks questions to former special counsel Robert Mueller, as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Rep. Ted Lieu leads effort to scrap Department of Justice’s investigations into Chinese influence

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

The entrance to the Supreme Court building's courtroom is seen through in this Sept. 19, 2020, file photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Biden’s DOJ urges Supreme Court not to overturn Roe v. Wade

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Biden and Democrats using DOJ for Gerrymandering Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

DOJ’s partisan redistricting guidance reeks

By Stewart Whitson

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)

Lawyer indicted in Durham probe resigns from Washington law firm

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 1, 2021, file photo, women protest against the six-week abortion ban at the Capitol in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

DOJ seeks emergency block of Texas abortion law

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the National Interagency Fire Center, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Third-party settlement payments, misused by Obama, violate Constitution

By John Shu

Abortion rights supporters gather to protest Texas SB 8 in front of Edinburg City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Edinburg, Texas. The nation's most far-reaching curb on abortions since they were legalized a half-century ago took effect Wednesday in Texas, with the Supreme Court silent on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold.(Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Justice Department will ‘protect’ abortion seekers in Texas

Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, on the August jobs report. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden signs executive order to declassify some 9/11 documents

By Jeff Mordock and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

illustration on the social media octopus and censorship by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DOJ shields Big Tech from Jan. 6 scrutiny in court

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This still frame from Metropolitan Police Department body worn camera video shows Thomas Webster, in red jacket, at a barricade line at on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

DOJ: Jan. 6 rioters committed 1,000 or more assaults on officers

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2021, file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. The first set of federal agents working for the Justice Department have started wearing body cameras under a new policy that reversed a years-long ban, Garland said Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

First set of Justice Dept. agents now wearing body cams

By Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

A member of the far-right group Proud Boys flashes an OK sign with their hand as they rally in an abandoned parking lot on the outskirts of town on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Alex Milan Tracy)

Proud Boys violence in Portland prompts Oregon Democrat to seek action from DOJ

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump confront U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Capitol in Washington. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol announced Thursday that it will vote next week on recommending criminal contempt of Congress charges for two former aides to President Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman and Jacques Billeaud - Associated Press

In this June 23, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden listens as Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during an event in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington to discuss gun crime prevention strategy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Conservative watchdog warns of Democrats’ ‘apparent weaponization’ of Justice Department

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this June 15, 2021, file photo a Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walk across the Rio Grande on their way to turn themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

‘Silent amnesty’: Biden administration quietly dismissing thousands of deportation cases

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Samuel Corum/Pool via AP)

Dick Durbin: Trump’s post-election actions were ‘leading up’ to a ‘coup’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Proud Boys including Joseph Biggs, front left, walks toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump. With the megaphone is Ethan Nordean, second from left. Outside pressures and internal strife are roiling two far-right extremist groups after members were charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen 2020 election united an array of right-wing supporters, conspiracy theorists and militants on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Proud Boys or FBI informants?

By Rowan Scarborough

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump hold on to a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. A New Jersey gym owner on Friday became the first person to plead guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Capitol rioters enter 1st guilty pleas to assaulting police

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

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)

Justice Dept. opens probe into Phoenix police force

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

MS-13 arrests plummet amid border surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times