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President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One in this December 2020 file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Trump says House Dems ‘dishonestly’ portrayed call to acting attorney general on election results

By Dave Boyer - 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) **FILE**

Russians hacked federal prosecutors, Justice Department says

By Alan Suderman and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this file image from video, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2020. (House Television via AP) **FILE**

Republicans slam DOJ ruling on Trump’s taxes as politically motivated

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 5, 2021, file photo, Emily Murdock, left, and her twin sister Elizabeth Murdock vote in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff election in Evans, Ga. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **

Georgia tells judge to dismiss DOJ’s ‘politicized’ case over election law

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this June 7, 2021, photo, demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, wave at cars that honk at them to support their protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit, saying if workers don’t like the rule, they can go find another job. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 mandates wade into uncertain legal territory

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a media conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. U.S. President Joe Biden is taking part in his first NATO summit, where the 30-nation alliance hopes to reaffirm its unity and discuss increasingly tense relations with China and Russia, as the organization pulls its troops out after 18 years in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool) **FILE**

Beijing plays hardball at talks despite U.S. concessions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., left, together with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.,right, and Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, back center, speaks in front of the Department of Justice building in Washington, during a rally, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, demanding the release of the Jan 6 "prisoners." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House GOP lawmakers demand answers from Justice Department on Jan. 6 ‘prisoners’

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

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**

8 U.S. attorney picks by Biden would include historic firsts

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, nursing home residents wait on line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. The Justice Department says it's decided against opening up any civil rights investigations against government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response, in a letter to members of U.S. Congress, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

DOJ says no probe into state-run nursing homes in New York

By Marina Villeneuve - Associated Press

In this June 25, 2021, file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. The Justice Department is launching gun strike forces in five cities in the U.S. It is part of an effort to reduce spiking violent crime by addressing illegal trafficking and prosecuting offenses that help put guns in the hands of criminals. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Justice Department launches gun ‘strike forces’ in five major cities

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Illustration on the DOJ lawsuit against Georgia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DOJ’s Georgia lawsuit is a weaponized version of critical race theory

By Tom Fitton

Illustration on the revelation about election fraud and Trump by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

British spy, spooks for hire conspired to take down Trump and steal a U.S. election

By Rowan Scarborough

In this Feb. 5, 2018, file photo, Larry Nassar, former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Eaton County Court in Charlotte, Mich. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)

The FBI failed Olympic gymnasts

By Tammy Bruce

In this June 25, 2021, file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights at the Department of Justice in Washington. Garland has formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations. Garland's directive Monday reverses years of department policy. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky/File)

DOJ tightens rules for secretly obtaining reporter phone, email records

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. According to an investigation from the Office of Inspector General, during congressional testimony three years ago, the former U.S. Commerce Secretary gave a misleading reason for why he wanted a citizenship question on the 2020 census. An investigation by the watchdog agency showed that Ross misrepresented the reason for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire during two appearances before House committees in March 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Watchdog: Ross misled on reason for citizenship question

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. A Justice Dept. inspector general report released July 7, 2021, finds that there are only 236 chaplains to serve more than 160,000 federal prison inmates and that two-thirds of U.S. Bureau of Prison (BOP) facilities are not meeting staffing minimums, forcing some prisons to turn to “alternatives that pose enhanced risks.” (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) **FILE**

Terrorists leading prison worship services: DOJ audit

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas is shown in this June 29, 2021 file photo. (Billy Calzada/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) **FILE**

DHS Secretary Mayorkas delays new deportation rules

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Psaki defends DOJ lawsuit over Ga. voting law; asks what Gov. Kemp is ‘so afraid of’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Georgia vows to fight as Justice Department sues to block voting changes

By Emily Zantow and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Under a pilot program, agents who operate as part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s SWAT team in Houston, New York City and Newark, New Jersey, will be outfitted with the cameras. (Associated Press)

FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals ‘unprepared’ for body cameras

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times