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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 — when, as I have argued, Eric Holder politicized the department more than almost any other prior...

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 department's 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 unc's center on law of government. he is the author of many books including the federal impeachment process. constitutional and historical analysis as well as more than 50 law review publi...

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 approached the department of justice in washington, the public integrity voting section, they approved an i...