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Justice Department to tighten rules after secret seizure of Congress members’ phone data

June 14, 2021 Leave a comment

In this April 28, 2016, file photo, Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court meets with Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Justice Department will tighten its rules around obtaining records from members of Congress, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

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Senate Democrats demand Barr, Sessions testify on ‘shocking’ data seizure

June 11, 2021 Leave a comment

Attorney General William Barr is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller Report. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate Democratic leaders are demanding that Trump-era Attorneys General Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions testify about the secret seizure of data from House Democrats in 2018.

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House panel interviewing Trump counsel after 2-year battle

June 4, 2021 Comments Off on House panel interviewing Trump counsel after 2-year battle

In this Feb. 22, 2018, file photo White House counsel Don McGahn speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at National Harbor, Md. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP file photo)

The House Judiciary Committee is poised to question former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors.

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Justice Department stepping up enforcement on hate crimes

June 4, 2021 Comments Off on Justice Department stepping up enforcement on hate crimes

Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's pick to be attorney general, answers questions from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., as he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Justice Department is stepping up its enforcement of hate crimes and other bias-related incidents.

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Trump Justice Department seized phone records of 4 New York Times reporters

June 3, 2021 Comments Off on Trump Justice Department seized phone records of 4 New York Times reporters

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper reported Wednesday.

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US seizes domain names used in Russia-linked cyberespionage campaign

June 1, 2021 Comments Off on US seizes domain names used in Russia-linked cyberespionage campaign

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has seized two domain names used in a cyberespionage campaign that targeted U.S. and foreign government agencies, think tanks, and humanitarian groups.

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Justice Department appeals judge’s order on releasing Russia investigation memo

May 25, 2021 Comments Off on Justice Department appeals judge’s order on releasing Russia investigation memo

President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 in Washington. The President is traveling to Texas. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The Biden administration is appealing a judge's order directing it to release in its entirety a legal memo on whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice during the Russia investigation.

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Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system

February 2, 2021 Comments Off on Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system

The justices have not stated when they will vote on John Vigna v. Maryland, No. 20-992. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive documents and hand-deliver them to the courthouse.

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Barr takes aim at prosecutors inside his own Justice Dept.

September 17, 2020 Comments Off on Barr takes aim at prosecutors inside his own Justice Dept.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks at a news conference, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Phoenix, where he announced results of a crackdown on international drug trafficking. Barr spent much of his time attacking mail-in voting, defending a Justice Department decision to take over defense of President Trump in a defamation case and discussing the civil unrest triggered by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as “headhunters” in their pursuit of prominent targets and for using the weight of the criminal justice system to launch ...

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Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is abuse of power

June 10, 2020 Comments Off on Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is abuse of power

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn arrives at federal court in Washington. A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department's motion to dismiss criminal charges against ex-national security Michael Flynn has found that the government's request should be denied because there is “clear evidence of a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.” Former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson says in a filing Wednesday that the government “has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn said there was evidence of a “gross abuse” of prosecutorial power and that the request should be denied.

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