Justice Department
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Loretta Lynch Redefines Reality
The DOJ must rely on self-reporting bathroom-switchers to be honest.
Uncle Sam Threatens North Carolina Over Bathroom Law
Punishing kids for the sake of a handful of men who think they're women.
Read more Ferguson: Rally the Black Vote
DOJ demands fines for a system that already preyed upon the poor.
Will Lynch Rig the Clinton Investigation?
Pressure is mounting for Obama's attorney general to step aside.
Facing Investigations, DOJ Claims the Right to Avoid Investigations
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has no intention of reversing the Justice Department's defiance of the Inspector General Act. She made that clear during a House Judiciary oversight hearing last month. Indeed, her own Office of Legal Counsel has issued a badly flawed opinion that insists DOJ and FBI officials can, at their discretion, withhold information from the Justice Department's inspector general — the individual tasked by Congress with investigating those very same officials.
The DOJ Is Wrong: Cops and Criminals Are Not Morally Equivalent
Recently the acting head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Principal Deputy Attorney General Vanita Gupta, gave a very long speech for the "Community Policing Summit" hosted by the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey. The speech was a longer and more detailed version of remarks delivered repeatedly by Obama administration officials these days, so it is worth reading with some care.