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Sens. Mike Lee and Amy Klobuchar wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook to urge him to attend the antitrust hearing this week. (Associated Press photographs)

Senate committee advances antitrust bill aimed at tech; obstacles remain

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Google, Apple rally against antitrust bills under consideration in Senate

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Anti-death penalty group to rally in Washington, press Biden to end federal executions

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee's Republicans have demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland rescind his controversial school-board memo after learning that the FBI created a "threat tag" to track risks to education personnel. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Senate Judiciary Republicans demand Garland withdraw school board memo

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Theresa Sari, left, and her daughter Leila Ali look at a protest-memorial wall for nursing home residents who died from COVID-19, including Sari's mother Maria Sachse, March 21, 2021, in New York. A state Assembly committee investigation found former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration made a political decision to misrepresent how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Legislative probe finds ‘overwhelming evidence’ of misconduct by Cuomo

By Marina Villeneuve - Associated Press

This Wednesday, May 27, 2020, photo shows then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a news conference in Washington. A prosecutor investigating accusations that former Gov. Cuomo groped a woman asked a judge for more time, saying the criminal complaint filed in late October 2021 by the local sheriff was &quot;potentially defective.&quot; (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Cuomo probe finds ‘overwhelming evidence’ of sexual harassment, misleading COVID info

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Two suspected criminal hackers have been charged in the United States in connection with a wave of ransomware attacks. That includes one that led to the temporary shutdown of the world’s largest meat processor and another that snarled businesses around the globe on the Fourth of July weekend. Garland and other top officials announced charges Monday against Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinskyi and Russian Yevgeniy Polyanin, alleging them to be part of the REvil ransomware gang.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP questions collusion of school board group, White House to label parents ‘domestic terrorists’

By Emily Zantow and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies 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)

House Republicans demand answers why Garland involved security agency in school board memo

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Senate Judiciary panel poised to grill AG Garland over FBI school board memo, U.S. Capitol riot

By Emily Zantow - 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. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AG Garland: Possible decision to prosecute Steve Bannon for contempt will be driven by facts, law

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Lawmakers accuse Amazon of misleading Congress about its business practices

By Ryan Lovelace - 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

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in New York. Cuomo says he will resign over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations. The three-term Democratic governor's decision, which will take effect in two weeks, was announced as momentum built in the Legislature to remove him by impeachment. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York Assembly to suspend Andrew Cuomo impeachment probe

By Marina Villeneuve - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2019, photo, Giffords Law Center Senior Policy Adviser David Chipman speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration had nominated Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group Giffords, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Judiciary Republicans demand second hearing for Biden ATF nominee amid racist-comment allegations

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.,speaks to judicial nominees during a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Senate Democrat rips Biden’s handling of critical infrastructure cybersecurity

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This June 8, 2021, photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Judiciary Committee passes bills to put cameras in federal courts, Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP)

Conservative in-fighting over antitrust crackdown on Big Tech goes public

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray testifies before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

FBI chief ‘not aware’ of new Trump probe — but ‘lots and lots’ of Jan. 6 probes underway

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former White House counsel Don McGahn departs after appearing for questioning behind closed doors by the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Jerrold Nadler: Trump counsel ‘shed new light on several troubling events’ in 8-hour interview

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this Sept. 27, 2018, photo, then-White House Counsel Don McGahn listens as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Don McGahn to testify behind closed doors on Mueller report

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times