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President Donald Trump is upset with William Barr after Barr told the Associated Press that the Department of Justice has not uncovered any evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. “He hasn’t done anything, so he hasn’t looked. When he looks, he’ll see the kind of evidence that right …

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered any evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of November’s election.  A staunch ally of Donald Trump during his presidency, Barr’s comments come despite Trump’s baseless claims that fraud cost him the election and his refusal to concede to …

In true Trump fashion, he makes new yet again for his unprecedented practices. Trump’s administration plans to execute 5 federal prisoners before inauguration day. The acts break a record in being the most federal inmates scheduled for execution during the last leg of a presidential term. The announcement was made …

Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys, who were specially assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election, have urged Attorney General William P. Barr to rescind his recent memorandum allowing investigators to publicly pursue allegations of “vote tabulation irregularities” after they said they had not seen evidence of any substantial anomalies. According …

On Monday, Attorney General William Barr gave federal prosecutors the green light to investigate voter irregularities, despite no evidence of fraud. Barr wrote in a memo to U.S. attorneys that investigations “may be conducted if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the …

Attorney General William Barr is dragging members of his own agency, equating Department of Justice prosecutors to preschoolers. His rant on Wednesday comes after several government lawyers moved to abandon the prosecution of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn and seek a lighter sentence for former Trump campaign manager …

Attorney General William P. Barr has let it be known that he is not pleased with protesters, especially those of which who commit crimes in the process. In a call last week, the unpredictable Trump wingman told federal prosecutors that they should consider charging rioters and others who had committed …

In an unusual move, the Department of Justice has taken over the defense of Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s. While a law called the Federal Tort Claims Act does provide federal government employees immunity from many …

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Wednesday, where he touched on a wide range of controversial topics, particularly the Jacob Blake case. Blake is one of the latest known Black victims of police brutality. He was shot seven times in the back by Kenosha …

On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr announced that “Operation Legend” had netted 1,500 arrests across eight U.S. cities after launching just six weeks ago. The initiative, which was named after murdered 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, was coordinated to fight the sudden surge of violent crime. Approximately 217 of those arrested have …

On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr acknowledged that black communities are often policed differently than white communities. Barr referred to the unfairness as a “widespread phenomenon.” “I do think it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males, in particular, are treated with extra suspicion and maybe not given the …

Mary B. McCord, a former top Justice Department official, wrote a blistering op-ed for The New York Times, claiming Attorney General William Barr used pieces of her 2017 testimony with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to justify the decision to drop the pending criminal case against former National Security Advisor Michael …

In an interview on Tuesday, Attorney General Bill Barr said that some state ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions are “disturbingly close to house arrest.” Shockingly, he went on to threaten legal action if governors begin to take restrictions on movement and civil liberties’ too far.’ Barr compared the government’s coronavirus response to the …

A judge has just blocked the scheduled executions of four federal death row inmates, effectively thwarting the Trump administration’s efforts to resume imposing the death penalty in a federal system that saw its last execution more than a decade and a half ago. According to Politico, the order was issued …