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Some Jewish immigrants who made their presence felt in Australia. Heinrich Harry ISENSTEIN  Harry was born on the 2nd March 1875 in the German Jewish community of Odessa, in the Russian Empire.  Isenstein first emigrated to England, and later, to Cape Town South Africa, and from that port, he made his way to arrive at…

The Garland memo looks like an effort to use the FBI to threaten parents who are outspoken opponents of critical race theory in schools.

Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on Monday directing the Department of Justice and the FBI to “launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.” 

View Comments Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday issued a long-anticipated directive restricting Justice Department contact with the White House as a firewall against potential political interference.   The order, which reaffirmed some policies of previous administrations, marks a sharp pivot from the Trump era when the former president casually broke with institutional norms, repeatedly calling on the department to launch investigations of his political rivals, including Presiden...

Government Executive email Joe Biden has inherited a department plagued by scandal, just as Gerald Ford did in 1974. Law professor at Fordham UniversityThe Atlantic President Joe Biden is facing problems Gerald Ford would have appreciated. Like Ford in 1974, Biden has come into office following a president accused of criminality. Both Biden and Ford inherited a Department of Justice plagued by scandal and well-grounded charges of politicization. Both had to choose a nominee for attorne...

ILLUSTRATION BY SAM GREEN It’s hard to find someone in Washington who doesn’t like Merrick Garland. There are Republicans who don’t like Barack Obama and accordingly blocked the former president from elevating Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016. There are Republicans who don’t like Joe Biden and don’t want to see him, through Garland, reshape the Justice Department into something less Trumpian than it became over the past four years. But the list of people who don’t actually like ...

From Trump to Hunter Biden, a lot hangs over Merrick Garlands Senate confirmation hearing Kevin Johnson and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY Judge Merrick Garland is up for attorney general confirmation, but hes not new to justice Replay Video UP NEXT When Merrick Garland accepted President Joe Biden’s nomination to serve as attorney general, the federal appeals court judge said he looked forward to a “homecoming” at the Justice Department where he began in the Carter administratio...

From Trump to Hunter Biden, a lot hangs over Merrick Garlands Senate confirmation hearing Kevin Johnson and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY Judge Merrick Garland is up for attorney general confirmation, but hes not new to justice Replay Video UP NEXT When Merrick Garland accepted President Joe Biden’s nomination to serve as attorney general, the federal appeals court judge said he looked forward to a “homecoming” at the Justice Department where he began in the Carter administratio...

The rolling crisis that defined the Justice Department and its relationship with President Donald Trump, who repeatedly sought to bend the agency to serve his political interests, is one of many challenges facing the nominee. Last month, a resurgent domestic extremist movement was thrust into public view during the deadly Capitol siege. The assault launched federal law enforcement authorities on one of the most far-reaching investigations in history while raising deeper concerns about the gov...

Former FBI Director James Comey's new memoir has the misfortune of rendering a verdict on the Trump presidency before what could be its most defining