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June 2, 2020

DOJ awards $400M to police departments in community policing grant program

The Department of Justice is awarding nearly $400 million in grant funding for almost 600 state and local police departments to hire more officers as part of a federal community policing program, the U.S. Attorney General’s office announced Tuesday.

June 2, 2020

Nadler calls for slashing AG budget in latest swipe at Barr

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Tuesday called to cut Attorney General Bill Barr’s budget, citing what his office called “continued defiance of Congress and improper politicization” of the Justice Department.

June 1, 2020

Harris, Jeffries demand answers on Cohen, Manafort home confinement during coronavirus

Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Monday pressed Attorney General Bill Barr for answers on the decision to release former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to home confinement amid coronavirus.

June 1, 2020

Barr sends riot teams to DC, Miami amid violent protests

Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday directed the Bureau of Prisons to send riot teams to Washington, D.C. and Miami to respond to the violent protests and riots that have broken out in the cities and across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, Fox News has learned.

June 1, 2020

Gregg Jarrett: Rod Rosenstein must be grilled by senators Wednesday about his abuse of power

It was Rosenstein who presided over the special counsel investigation of President Trump, all the while conspiring behind the scenes to overthrow him.

May 31, 2020

Barr: Violence from Antifa, other groups 'is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly'

Attorney General William Barr said Sunday that the Department of Justice will treat violence by individuals associated with Antifa as domestic terrorism in a statement that condemned the far-left group and asserted that protests against police brutality and racial inequality following George Floyd's death have "been hijacked."

May 30, 2020

Andrew McCarthy: Laws against rioting and terrorism must be enforced against Antifa and other violent radicals

Antifa is a loosely-knit, interstate movement whose objective is to wage a terrorist war against the United States, using violence against the government and our civilian infrastructure.

May 30, 2020

Minneapolis woman on riots, looting after George Floyd's death: 'I have nowhere to go now'

A disabled woman from Minneapolis who lives near the site of recent riots sparked by the death of George Floyd said Saturday, that her neighborhood has been destroyed leaving her with no refuge from the carnage and looting sweeping the area. 

May 30, 2020

Jason Chaffetz: Justice for George Floyd – zero tolerance for rogue cops and lawlessness

Equal application of the law, justice, is what we all need to calm the country.

May 30, 2020

Andrew McCarthy: George Floyd's death – what we do and don't know now

The official complaint submitted to a Minnesota district court answers some questions, but raises others.