WASHINGTON, D.C. Yesterday, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Judge Merrick Garland to serve as Attorney General, Lisa Monaco to serve as Deputy Attorney General, Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General, and Kristen Clarke as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
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 when, as I have argued, Eric Holder politicized the department more than almost any other prior attorney general?
Given some of Biden’s choices for Garland’s subordinates, Garland may have a difficult time avoiding the renewed politicization of the Justice Department.
Justice Department investigating use of pepper spray at Nevada youth centers
STATE OF NEVADA
and last updated 2021-01-07 13:39:32-05
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) â The Justice Department announced today that it has opened an investigation into the use of pepper spray at two juvenile correctional facilities run by the Nevada Juvenile Justice Services Agency: the Nevada Youth Training Center and the Summit View Youth Center.
The investigation will examine whether staff at the two facilities use pepper spray in a manner that violates youthâs rights under the Constitution.
Summit View Youth Center, which is a maximum-security youth facility, is located on Range Road near Interstate 15 I North Las Vegas.
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