WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's attorney general nominee, vowed Monday to prioritize combating extremist violence with an initial focus on the insurrection at the U.S....
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans who have spent the last two years arguing that there was bias in President Barack Obama's Justice Department are preparing to subpoena two key witnesses in the final weeks of their majority — former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's watchdog has finally weighed in on the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and nobody comes out looking good.
The report paints a deeply unflattering portrait of former FBI Director James Comey and other senior bureau officials. And it is unlikely to satisfy either Republicans looking for an anti-Trump deep state or Democrats angry at an FBI they believe torpedoed Clinton's candidacy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's watchdog has finally weighed in on the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and nobody comes out looking good.
The report paints a deeply unflattering portrait of former FBI Director James Comey and other senior bureau officials. And it is unlikely to satisfy either Republicans looking for an anti-Trump deep state or Democrats angry at an FBI they believe torpedoed Clinton's candidacy.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Several justices on the nation's highest court are in Massachusetts to celebrate the bicentennial of Harvard Law School.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has been joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch and retired Justice David Souter at Thursday's event on campus. They are all Harvard Law School alumni.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking information about alleged political interference by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch into the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday encouraged her successor to remember the American people are the Department of Justice's clients, not the president or Congress.
"I would urge people who are taking over the department now to remember this is the Department of Justice for everyone," she said, without mentioning Attorney General Jeff Sessions by name. "As you look at the rule of law, it's not just words on the page. It's the impact on people's lives."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
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President Donald Trump is jawboning Democrats to move faster on approving his Cabinet nominations.
BALTIMORE (AP) — As a younger lawyer, Loretta Lynch prosecuted New York police officers who sodomized a Haitian immigrant in a precinct bathroom. As attorney general, she's broadened her focus to go after entire police departments for unconstitutional practices.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her final speech as head of the Justice Department, praised the work of the Obama administration to advance the dream of justice and said worries of difficult days ahead should be a call for action, not despair.
BALTIMORE (AP) — American criminal investigators are continuing to pursue soccer corruption, according to outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who initiated the prosecution of fraudulent FIFA executives.
Lynch attracted global attention by jolting the world's most popular sport, launching sprawling criminal cases that burst into view with early morning arrests in May 2015 at a luxury hotel in Zurich ahead of the FIFA presidential election.
BALTIMORE (AP) — As a younger lawyer, Loretta Lynch prosecuted New York police officers who sodomized a Haitian immigrant in a precinct bathroom. As attorney general, she's broadened her focus to go after entire police departments for unconstitutional practices.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials are pledging to revamp the city Police Department following a scathing federal report, but a change in presidential administrations could spell uncertainty for the critical next step in the process: negotiating a court-enforceable improvement plan with the Justice Department.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Department of Justice's report from its yearlong investigation into the Chicago Police Department (all times local):
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Black Lives Matter activists say they don't trust Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to reform the Police Department after the U.S. Justice Department concluded officers have used excessive force and violated people's constitutional rights for years.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore police department committed to a sweeping overhaul of its practices Thursday under a court-enforceable agreement with the federal government.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six high-level Volkswagen employees from Germany have been indicted in the U.S. in the automaker's emissions-cheating scandal as prosecutors made good on efforts to charge individuals in a corporate corruption case.
But bringing them to trial in the U.S. is another matter.
Farewell Ceremony Honors Attorney General Lynch
BOSTON (AP) — United States Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz, who prosecuted the high-profile cases of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, is stepping down.
Ortiz said she submitted her resignation as the state's top federal prosecutor last week and spoke with Attorney General Loretta Lynch Tuesday to confirm her departure. She didn't indicate what her next position would be.