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January 20, 2022

Los Angeles train robberies: Congress members ask Garland for DOJ's help

Reps. Tom Tiffany, Michelle Steel and others are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate train robberies after photos and videos of LA train cargo being looted went vial last week.

January 19, 2022

Merrick Garland struggles to get on top of violent crime spike

One year into the Biden administration, the U.S. continues to see surging crime, as Attorney General Merrick Garland struggles to get a handle on the situation.

January 18, 2022

Senate Republicans probe Education Department, DOJ over NSBA letter

Senate Judiciary Commitee ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, led ten of his fellow Republican senators in a pair of letters to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the widely criticized NSBA correspondence.

January 15, 2022

Former Obama adviser pleads guilty to stealing $218K from schools

A former Obama administration adviser pleaded guilty to wire fraud and stealing $218,000 from charter schools, announced the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Friday.

January 15, 2022

Tucker Carlson: The Democratic Party is redefining opposition as terrorism

Tucker Carlson questions the charges brought against several of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol protesters.

January 14, 2022

Former Obama-era acting DHS inspector general pleads guilty to scheme to steal gov’t software

Charles Edwards, who worked as acting inspector general at DHS-OIG between 2011 and 2013, is accused of having executed a scheme to steal confidential and proprietary software from the government after he left the agency and set up his own company.

January 13, 2022

Tucker Carlson: Joe Biden has given Democrats more power to harass political enemies

Tucker Carlson reacts to Biden's Justice Department forming a new domestic terrorism unit.

January 13, 2022

Justice Department pressured to end China Initiative aimed at targeting espionage

Attorney General Merrick Garland is under increasing pressure from academics across the country to end "The China Initiative", a Department of Justice program formed in 2018. It is designed to confront Chinese espionage.

January 13, 2022

Federal inmates to be released under 'time credits' program

The Justice Department will begin transferring thousands of inmates out of federal prisons this week as part of a sweeping criminal justice overhaul signed by President Trump more than three years ago.

January 12, 2022

Biden DOJ says families separated at border don't deserve compensation, despite his call for it

President Biden’s Justice Department has argued in court that families separated at the border during the Trump years are not entitled to compensation, a stark contrast to Biden’s position over the past several months.