Updates will impose term limits on monitors. This week, the Justice Department announced that it would be updating its policies on how federal monitors of police forces would…
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DOJ Files Emergency Order Against Texas
Argues that fetal heartbeat law violates the 14th amendment. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed an emergency order at a U.S. District Court requesting a temporary halt…
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Federal Victim Compensation Fund Still Active
More than $8 billion in relief for 9/11 survivors since 2001. The four separate terrorist-led plane crashes of September 11, 2001, killed nearly 3,000 people. The federal Victim…
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Prosecutors Allege Over 1,000 Assaults on Capitol Police
Court filing includes video footage of assaults from January 6. In the case involving one of the hundreds of people charged over the events at the U.S. Capitol…
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House Passes John Lewis Voting Rights Act
The bill passed 219-212 along party lines. H.R.4, known as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, passed the House by a slim margin. The law is named after the…
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Justice Department Reviewing 9/11 Classified Information
Families of victims are putting pressure on President Biden. Families of victims, survivors, and first responders told President Biden last week not to attend any of the memorial…
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Justice Department Issues Election Audit Guidance
The release follows the attorney general’s commitment to voting rights regulations. The Department of Justice set out new guidelines regarding post-election audits amid a flurry of states passing…
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Justice Department Seizes Holocaust-Era Manuscripts
Recovered Jewish scrolls and artifacts were originally stolen by Nazis Last week, the Justice Department announced that they had seized Jewish historic items not seen since their communities…
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Justice Department Updates White House Contact Policy
New rules limit contact and push for more independent DOJ. Last week, the Department of Justice released new guidelines aimed at limiting the ability of the White House…
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Vanita Gupta is U.S. Associate Attorney General. She advises and assists the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, law enforcement, and public safety matters.…
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