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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, joined at left by Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., speaks as the panel holds an emergency meeting to advance a series of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives reject Facebook’s excuse for latest censorship of GOP: ‘No one’s buying it’

By Susan Ferrechio and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group says is “alarming.” (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

House GOP: Facebook flagged our posts about Biden canceling student debt

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this March 18, 2014, file photo, voters cast their ballots in Hinsdale, Ill. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Lawmakers spar over Justice Department priorities during hearing on threats against election workers

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sen. Richard Durbin speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris at the C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield, Ill., Friday, June 24, 2022. The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball's antitrust exemption. Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, and Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent the letter Tuesday, June 28, to Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers.(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Minors rep asks Congress to restrict MLB antitrust exemption

By Jake Seiner - Associated Press

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., holds up his own handgun as he speaks via videoconference as the House Judiciary Committee holds an emergency meeting to advance a series of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican lawmaker demonstrates with real firearms how magazine limits would ban guns

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

House GOP calls Democrats’ new gun control package ‘theater,’ infringement on Second Amendment

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., updates reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats scoff at Republican post-midterm revenge over Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland attends a news conference to announce actions to enhance the Biden administration's environmental justice efforts, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Whistleblowers: FBI probed parents under counterterrorism ‘threat tag’ for protesting school boards

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Heather Haworth, left, holds the hand of her 12-year-old son Jeremy as he receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from medical assistant Gloria Urgell at the Providence, Edwards Lifesciences vaccination site in Santa Ana, Calif., Thursday, May 13, 2021. The California state Senate Judiciary committee approved a bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, Thursday, May 5, 2022, that would allow minors between the ages of 12-17 to get vaccinated without parental approval. The measure now goes to the full Senate. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Bill allowing preteens to get vaccinated without parental OK advances in California

By Don Thompson - Associated Press

The Twitter application is seen on a digital device, Monday, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a more lenient touch to policing content on the platform where he promotes his interests, attacks critics and opines on social and economic issues to more than 83 million followers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Knives out for Elon Musk on Capitol Hill following his acquisition of Twitter

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, talks with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member, left, before the start of a committee business meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2022, regarding Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senators request Justice Department inspector general review FBI agents’ rule-breaking

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, makes an opening statement during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Monday, March 21, 2022, in Washington. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, looks on at right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

GOP: Dems ‘hiding’ documents on Ketanji Brown Jackson before hearing

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington Nov. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Lawmakers question if FBI director misled Congress after audit revealed agents’ rule-breaking

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, March 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jackson professes her commitment to God, family, country, Constitution at confirmation hearing

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is helped into her seat by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as she arrives for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Accusations of leniency in child porn cases preface Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson listens during a meeting with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dark money groups cast deep shadows over Supreme Court confirmation battles

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. For the first time in two years for many people, the American workplace is transforming into something that resembles pre-pandemic days. The U.S. has since seen COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations plummet. Cases have plunged from 455,000 a day two weeks ago to 150,000 on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Lawmakers alert Justice Department to ‘potentially criminal conduct by Amazon’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senators expect less contentious, quicker confirmation battle for historic Supreme Court pick

By Alex Swoyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Crackdown on tech for child sexual exploitation slammed as ineffective, affront to privacy rights

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Bill hitting Apple, Google over app stores’ dominance clears key hurdle in Senate

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times