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November 20, 2021

DOJ won't say if it is investigating Facebook's 'facilitation' of illegal migration into the US

Fox News exclusively reviewed a Nov. 17 letter by DOJ in response to a request by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for the department to look into the social media giant's practices.

November 20, 2021

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN skip DOJ whistleblower revealing 'threat tag' targeting parents at school board meetings

The media has largely ignored the explosive allegation made by a DOJ whistleblower about the counterterrorism targeting of outraged parents that appears undercuts sworn testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

November 19, 2021

Wall Street Journal editorial board rips Garland, FBI over O’Keefe raid: ’Another abuse of civil liberties’

The editorial board for the Wall Street Journal on Thursday called on Congress to investigate what Attorney General Merrick Garland knew about the FBI raid on James O’Keefe if a recently filed motion to unseal documents does not contain 'very strong evidence' that the Project Veritas founder committed a crime.

November 18, 2021

Garland 'running interference for teachers unions' while FBI creates education threat tag: Rufo

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland misled Congress and is "running interference for the teachers unions" who largely support the critical race theory curriculum, Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo told Fox News on Thursday.

November 18, 2021

House GOP ranking members launch inquiry into FBI raid of Project Veritas

Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and James Comer, R-K.Y., joined Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., on Thursday in demanding information from the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding the recent raids of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe's residence and those of his associates.

November 18, 2021

Biden's DOJ allocates 139M to help bolster police departments across US

The Justice Department said on Thursday it's giving $139 million to police departments across the U.S. as part of a grant program that would bring on more than 1,000 new officers.

November 17, 2021

FBI's response to DOJ's school board whistleblower confirms 'threat tag', helps make critics' case: 'The Five'

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has responded to a Justice Department whistleblower, who claimed the agency created a ‘threat tag’ to potentially track perceptively unruly or critical parents at school board meetings.

November 17, 2021

Arizona AG urges DOJ to investigate school board president who kept 'dossier' of parents

Arizona's Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging him to investigate Jann-Michael Greenburg's "dossier" of parents in Scottsdale. The Scottsdale school board president had access to the dossier, which some parents called a form of "retaliation" for speaking out at school board meetings.

November 17, 2021

Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to criminal contempt of Congress charges

Steve Bannon, the former adviser to former President Donald Trump, has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of criminal contempt of Congress, his attorney David Schoen told Fox News.

November 17, 2021

Rare prosecution in Bannon contempt case signals shift by Biden DOJ

House Democrats are hoping that the Justice Department's indictment of Steve Bannon results in a conviction for contempt of Congress, but if it does it would be the first in decades.