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In this March 4, 2015 photo, then-Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington about the Justice Department’s findings related to two investigations in Ferguson, Mo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Seal for the Loretta Lynch Justice Department Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Justice Department Tools Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Illustration on the "death" of Justice Department and ATF accountability by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he speaks at the Justice Department in Washington to discuss the Aug. 9, 2014, shooting in Ferguson, Mo. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Questions are mounting over why the Justice Department has not yet opened a criminal investigation against Hillary Rodham Clinton for mishandling a mountain of classified information. (Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric Holder is questioned about the Justice Department secretly obtaining two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. In what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion," the Justice Department monitored outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch listens members of the media's questions on the recent church shooting in Charleston, S.C., during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Vanita Gupta, head of civil rights division at the Department of Justice speaks at a news conference announcing the settlement agreement with the City of Cleveland Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in Cleveland. Cleveland agreed to overhaul its police department under the supervision of a federal monitor in a settlement announced Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Justice over a pattern of excessive force and other abuses by officers. The announcement comes three days after a white patrolman was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter charges in the shooting deaths of two unarmed black suspects in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire following a high-speed chase. The case helped prompt an 18-month investigation by the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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Justice Department destroys state sovereignty illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 7, 2015, before the Senate subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing to examine the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2016 for the Justice Department. Lynch said she’ll decide soon whether the Justice Department will undertake a civil rights investigation into the Baltimore police department. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Vice President Joe Biden applauds as Loretta Lynch speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, April 27, 2015, after Biden administered the oath of office to Lynch as the 83rd Attorney General of the U.S. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Loretta Lynch laughs as Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a swearing in ceremony for Lynch as she becomes the 83rd Attorney General of the U.S., Monday, April 27, 2015, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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California Democratic Rep. Janice Hahn is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate an incident in South Gate, in which a deputy U.S. marshal is seen on video grabbing the cellphone of a woman who was recording an arrest and smashing it on the ground. (CNN)

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Ed Schultz suggested on his MSNBC show Wednesday night that police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, should be disarmed in order to effect real change following a Justice Department report that accused the department of racial bias. (MSNBC via The Daily Caller)

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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington on March 4, 2015, about the Justice Department's findings related to two investigations in Ferguson, Mo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks Wednesday about the Justice Department's findings related to two investigations in Ferguson, Missouri. The Justice Department will not prosecute a former police officer involved in a fatal shooting, but the government released a scathing report that faulted the city for racial bias. (Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, about the Justice Department’s findings related to two investigations in Ferguson, Mo. The Justice Department will not prosecute a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old whose death in Ferguson sparked weeks of protests and ignited an intense national debate over how police treat African-Americans. But the government released a scathing report Wednesday that faulted the city for racial bias. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, about the Justice Department's findings related to two investigations in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)