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Steve Bannon's defense for snubbing subpoena has no merit, Justice Department says

Longtime Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon should be barred from claiming at trial that he was relying on legal advice from the former president’s lawyer when he balked at lawmakers’ subpoenas, prosecutors told a judge.

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FOIA Advocates Say Biden Administration Is Ignoring Transparency Issues

New administrations usually issue memos on transparency. The Biden administration has ignored calls to do so.

Reason

A California Sheriff Remains Free To Rob Armored Cars Carrying Money From State-Licensed Marijuana Businesses

A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.

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Ex-Justice official threatened with contempt faces Jan. 6 panel

WASHINGTON — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who faced the threat of being held in contempt of Congress, appeared Wednesday for closed-door questioning before a House panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Appeals court skeptical of judge’s ruling blocking access to Sen. Burr warrant

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court indicated Wednesday it may overturn a judge’s ruling that blocked the public’s access to a search warrant for Sen. Richard Burr’s cellphone, which was part of an investigation into his stock trades.

Los Angeles Times

Chicago Police Department slow to make reform progress since the shooting of Laquan McDonald and still in need of a cultural change, experts say

CHICAGO — The shooting of Laquan McDonald triggered a momentous police reform effort that spawned a scathing Justice Department report and an extensive consent decree and for the first time added community members directly into Chicago police oversight.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: OK, Justice Department, you have plenty of evidence to indict Trump now

Combined with what we already knew, former President Donald Trump’s statement Sunday night leaves no doubt that his intent on Jan. 6 had been to overturn the results of the election he lost:

Los Angeles Times

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NSO Group offered ‘bags of cash’ to access cell network: Reports

US whistle-blower accuses Israeli firm of making offer in 2017 call, Washington Post and other outlets have reported.

Al Jazeera

NAACP urges federal charges in Laquan McDonald’s killing

Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke is scheduled to be released from prison Thursday after serving less than half of his state prison term.

Chicago Sun-Times

NAACP urges federal charges in killing of Laquan McDonald

The NAACP is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald

The Independent UK

Justice Department must be aggressive to defend voting rights

The DOJ must use its authority to challenge discriminatory reforms immediately, before the election. The new obstacles must be exposed as the insult that they are, and used to motivate even more people to vote.

Chicago Sun-Times

US Accuses Iranians of Attempt to Smuggle Advanced Weapons to IRGC

The Justice Department on Friday said an Iranian, carrying the British nationality, has pleaded guilty for exporting advanced weapons from the United States to Iran. Meanwhile, an indictment was unsealed charging four individuals with the same offense, as well as related offenses. In a statement, the Department said that according…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Man convicted in 1988 explosion that killed 6 Kansas City firefighters wins $344K in records suit

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge has awarded more than $344,000 in legal fees to a former prisoner who sued the Justice Department seeking answers about a 1988 explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters, for which he spent nearly 20 years in prison.

Tribune News Service

Feds accuse Texas man of selling gun used to take hostages

The Justice Department says a Texas man has been charged with a federal gun crime after authorities say he sold a gun to a man who held four hostages inside a Texas synagogue earlier this month

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Activists plan downtown rally Feb. 3 to protest release of Jason Van Dyke

Rev. Jesse Jackson is lobbying the Justice Department to file civil rights charges against Van Dyke for the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald.

The Independent UK

Texas man charged with election threats to Georgia officials

The Justice Department says a Texas man has been arrested on charges of posting threatening messages on Craigslist about killing government officials in Georgia following the 2020 election

Al Jazeera

US charges Texas man with threatening Georgia election officials

Charge is first by a special US Justice Department task force aimed at stopping threats against election workers.

The Independent UK

Justice Department charges Texas man over threat to ‘put a bullet’ in Georgia election officials

DOJ brings first case from task force charged with tackling rising threats against election workers

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US drops case against MIT professor accused of ties to China

The Justice Department has dropped its case against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor charged last year with hiding work he did for the Chinese government

Roll Call

Congress mulls independent immigration courts as backlog soars - Roll Call

A hearing Thursday by a Judiciary panel will consider the prospect of taking the immigration court system out of the Justice Department.

The Independent UK

Capitol riot committee set to be given four pages of Trump records that he tried to conceal, report says

Trump’s request to block the handover of these records among others is still pending at the Supreme Court

Tribune News Service

Jay-Z's Team Roc renews calls for DOJ probe into Kansas City police misconduct

Team Roc, the social justice arm of rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation, renewed its calls Tuesday for an intense investigation into alleged corruption in the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, saying there is no excuse to justify the Justice Department's "silence."

The Independent UK

US regulators aiming at illegal and anticompetitive mergers

U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations

Tribune News Service

What you need to know about federal trial this week of 3 ex-officers in George Floyd’s death

MINNEAPOLIS — The federal civil rights trial for three former Minneapolis police officers indicted in connection with George Floyd's killing is set to begin Thursday. The men, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, all face Justice Department charges of abusing their position as police officers to deprive Floyd…

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