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With President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of federal Judge Merrick Garland as his new attorney general last week, the question arises: Will Garland carry out his responsibilities in a nonpartisan manner, or will he return the Justice Department to the days of the Obama-Biden administration—when, as I have argued, Eric Holder politicized the department more than almost any other prior attorney general

DELAWARE, United States (CMC) — United States President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday...

President-elect Joe Biden picks Kristen Clarke as DOJ nominee who in the past has called for partially defunding police. Ian Prior, former DOJ deputy affairs director under the Trump administration, provides insight. With President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Judge Merrick Garland as his new attorney general this week, the question arises: Will Garland carry out his responsibilities in a nonpartisan manner, or will he return the Justice Department to the days of the Obama-Biden administration...

Assistant attorney general in the civil rights division of the united states department of justice where she was responsible among other things for reviewing the work of the departments voting section. she earned three degrees from yale university. a ba in history, ma in history and jd from yale. michael gerhard is the distinguished professor at the university of north carolina school of law and director of uncs center on law of government. he is the author of many books including the federal im...

Follow the news they probably saw it otherwise. these were good people who had tried, they asked me to get involved in this case in 2002, a majority african-american grand jury with an african-american foreman asked the federal government to investigate the 1982 election. i declined and i hope that that investigation would have stopped the problem. but two years later, the same thing was happening again. we had african-american incumbent officials pleading with us to take some action. we approac...

People who casually saw the news probably saw it otherwise. these were good people who had tried, asked me to get involved in this case in 2002, majority african-american grand jury with african-american foreman, i asked the federal government to investigate the 1982 election. i declined. i hoped that investigation would have stopped the problem, but two years later the same thing was happening again. we had african-american officials pleading with us to take some action. we approached the depar...

Rejust showed that you are aware of? >> as far as we know. we have gotten no response. public interest legal foundation sent a letter to the voting section and criminal section in the civil rights division. the same people who rushed to any other event. but we have got none response. >> who argue that your opinions are making me feel, quote, unsafe, okay. here you have a guy getting kicked in the face on the ground for voting trump and because set wrong skin color and they are not doing anything...

And voting section of the department of justice and resigned over the handling of the case. he wrote a book "injustice," exposing the racial agenda of the obama justice department. >> thank you, sean. >> had you people in uniform, military guard with batons outside a voting place is that allowed? >> of course not. it shouldnt be allowed no matter who is doing it. but under this administration, when we brought the case in january of 2009, just before the inauguration, it was dismissed, and americ...

Then come into play? >> yeah. ultimately, depends who is going to be paying up front, is it going to be a plaintiff who is saying this is xragt against me or the state, the federal government and prove that their practices are not discriminatory? >> kathy, have there been certain minority groups more vocal than others about protecting the law than you have heard so far? >> no advancement project is a multiracial organization and we have actually worked on behalf of african-americans and late tea...

Of law. its a systemic problem, hopefully it will get better, but again, the law needs to be defined in a neutral manner. and theres a difference between bad hiring practices and im not defending it, and application of the law. the application of the law. >> megyn: the report goes on and ive got to go. ive got to go, but-- no, ive got to go, but it leaves the viewer with, or the reader with the following terms, polarization and harassment within the voting section, and bitter controversy, and la...