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This image provided by Alliance Defending Freedom shows the sign for parking lot church services outside of Temple Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., on April 9, 2020. The Justice Department has weighed in on a local Mississippi case involving a church that says its religious freedoms were violated. Temple Baptist in Greenville has been holding drive-in services for congregants during the coronavirus outbreak. (Alliance Defending Freedom via AP)

Justice Department takes church’s side in 1st Amendment suit

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Congregants remain in their cars during a prayer service held outside at First United Pentecostal Church, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Brandon, Miss. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

Justice Department intervenes in Mississippi church’s lawsuit for breaking up ‘drive-in’ service

By Jeff Mordock and James Varney - The Washington Times

Attorney General William Barr speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Justice Department continues to find errors in FISA applications

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Dossier author Christopher Steele acknowledged he was desperate to stop the Trump campaign and prompt the FBI to ratchet up its investigation. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

FBI used Russian disinformation to launch investigation into Donald Trump: Audit

By Stephen Dinan and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Headquarters, across the street from the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

FISA judge rips FBI, orders disclosure of targets in faulty surveillance warrant applications

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Cancelled Mail Vote Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Vote-by-mail for 2020 election will make fraud and errors worse

By J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky

In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Georgia man charged with scheme to submit false claims for COVID-19 tests to health care providers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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Baruch Feldheim coughs on FBI agents after claiming coronavirus faces assault charges

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration will announce Thursday, March 26, 2020, indictments against Maduro and members of his inner circle for effectively converting Venezuela's state into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

US indicts Venezuela’s Maduro on narcoterrorism charges

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz testifies at a Senate committee on FISA investigation hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Bureau of Prisons failed to monitor terrorist communications, IG report says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

James B. Comey, then-FBI director, is shown in this July 2016 photo testifying before Congress. (Associated Press) **FILE**

FBI Trump targeting details revealed by Horowitz report

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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EDITORIAL: Subversion of justice is as perilous as pandemic

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Concord Management, Concord Consulting Mueller probe charges dropped by Justice Department

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Kaul: Watch out for virus-related price gouging, scams

Associated Press

A DEA agents are briefed in a parking lot prior to an arrest of a suspected drug trafficker on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in Diamond Bar, Calif. In early-morning raids Wednesday, federal agents fanned out across the U.S., culminating a six-month investigation with the primary goal of dismantling the upper echelon of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known as CJNG. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

DEA carries out largest-ever strike against ‘remorseless’ Mexican drug cartel

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Central American immigrants hang around by the fence line of a shelter guarded by Mexican Federal police in riot gear in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. The governor of the northern state of Coahuila described the migrants as &quot;asylum seekers,&quot; suggesting all had express intentions of surrendering to U.S. authorities. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) **FILE**

Supreme Court grants reprieve for ‘Remain in Mexico’ DHS policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 4, 2020, file photo, shelves, where disinfectant wipes and sprays are usually displayed, sit empty in a pharmacy in Providence, R.I., as confirmed cases of the coronavirus rise in the U.S. Legions of nervous hoarders are stocking up on canned goods, frozen dinners, toilet paper, and cleaning products. Such hoarding that's expected to last for weeks has created big challenges for discounters and grocery stores as well as food delivery services. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

DOJ vows to aggressively combat coronavirus price gouging

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this June 7, 2017, file photo, then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe pauses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Andrew McCabe prosecution declination exposes two-track justice system

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Several FBI headquarters officials, including Director James B. Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and senior counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, were fired for improprieties related to the probe. (Associated Press photographs)

FBI disregarded Christopher Steele’s admission ‘raw’ intelligence amounted to gossip

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A migrant climbs the fence at the border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. More than a thousand Central American migrants surged onto the bridge spanning the Suchiate River, that marks the border between both countries, as Mexican National Guardsmen attempted to impede their journey north. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) **FILE**

DOJ asks Supreme Court to preserve ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times