The Justice Department will tighten its rules around obtaining records from members of Congress, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
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Read More »June 14, 2021 Comments Off on Justice Department to tighten rules after secret seizure of Congress members’ phone data
The Justice Department will tighten its rules around obtaining records from members of Congress, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
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Read More »June 11, 2021 Comments Off on Senate Democrats demand Barr, Sessions testify on ‘shocking’ data seizure
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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Read More »June 4, 2021 Comments Off on House panel interviewing Trump counsel after 2-year battle
The House Judiciary Committee is poised to question former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors.
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Read More »June 4, 2021 Comments Off on Justice Department stepping up enforcement on hate crimes
The Justice Department is stepping up its enforcement of hate crimes and other bias-related incidents.
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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »May 25, 2021 Comments Off on Justice Department appeals judge’s order on releasing Russia investigation memo
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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Read More »February 2, 2021 Comments Off on Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
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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Read More »September 17, 2020 Comments Off on Barr takes aim at prosecutors inside his own Justice Dept.
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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Read More »June 10, 2020 Comments Off on Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is abuse of power
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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