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In this May 1, 2019, photo, Attorney General William Barr appears at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

DOJ willing to trade unredacted Mueller report if House intel committee backs off William Barr

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller report. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Barr skips session with House Democrats, escalates standoff

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 18, 2015 file photo, prisoners stand in a crowded lunch line during a prison tour at Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala. he Justice Department has determined that Alabama's prisons are violating the Constitution by failing to protect inmates from violence and sexual abuse and by housing them in unsafe and overcrowded facilities, according to a scathing report Wednesda, April 3, 2019, that described the problems as &quot;severe&quot; and &quot;systemic.&quot;. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

APNewsBreak: US condemns ‘broken’ Alabama prison system

By KIM CHANDLER and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Federal monitor gives Newark police mixed grades in report

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In this Jan. 9, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, William Barr, meets with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Capitol Hill in Washington. As attorney general a quarter century ago, William Barr promoted more police and prisons to address violence ravaging American cities. He bemoaned a &quot;moral crisis” and rising secularism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Barr as attorney general: old job, very different Washington

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

In this Jan. 9, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, William Barr, meets with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Capitol Hill in Washington. As attorney general a quarter century ago, William Barr promoted more police and prisons to address violence ravaging American cities. He bemoaned a &quot;moral crisis” and rising secularism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump AG pick poised to reclaim old job in a changed capital

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, during The Atlantic Festival, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House GOP quietly ends probe into FBI’s 2016 decisions

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Lawsuit: Police chief condones white officers’ racism, abuse

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Justice Department official accused of employee sex assault

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning on May 14, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Who is Bruce Ohr? Justice official has attracted GOP ire

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., listens during questioning of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz during a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing examining Horowitz's report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mark Meadows: Justice Department turned over only ‘small percentage’ of subpoenaed Russia documents

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this June 13, 2017 photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions removes his glasses as he speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Twhile testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sessions, a son of the segregated South who was named after leaders of the Confederacy, faces a tough new test of his commitment to protecting civil rights as he oversees the Justice Department’s probe of the deadly violence that erupted at a rally of white nationalists in Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Charlottesville poses new civil rights test for Sessions

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

A neighbor girl walks past a memorial outside where a pregnant mother was shot and killed a day earlier at her apartment by police Monday, June 19, 2017, in Seattle. A cousin of a mother who was shot and killed by Seattle police has questioned why officers didn't use a Taser or other non-lethal options during the encounter. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle police shooting may show limits of crisis training

By GENE JOHNSON and PHUONG LE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 23, 2016 file photo, members of the Baltimore Police Department patrol near the intersection of North and Pennsylvania Avenues, the site of unrest following Freddie Gray's funeral, in Baltimore. On Monday, April 3, 2017, the Department of Justice, the very agency that helped city officials root out the police department's worst problems and build a roadmap to reform, signaled it may abandon those efforts in favor of cracking down on violent crime. That left city leaders stunned, and pledging to carry out reforms as best they can. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Federal overhauls of police departments bring mixed results

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, file photo, Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference in Baltimore to announce that seven Baltimore police officers who worked on a firearms crime task force are facing charges of stealing money, property and narcotics from people over two years. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and Davis worked closely with Justice Department investigators to scrutinize the city's police force and embraced a plan they crafted to overhaul the troubled department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Baltimore police ready for reforms despite delay request

By JULIET LINDERMAN and SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

Prince George’s police plan to roll out body camera program

By J.F. MEILS - Associated Press

Commissioner John Koskinen is facing calls for impeachment after he failed to discover thousands of emails from former senior executive Lois G. Lerner, despite assuring Congress that he had done everything to recover them. (Associated Press)

IRS vows action on tea party applications held up by targeting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, demanded earlier this year that Attorney General Lorretta E. Lynch take action against sanctuary cities, which the Justice Department has found violate federal laws. (Associated Press)

Sanctuary city policy gets funding yanked by federal government

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 9, 2016 file photo, Attorney General Loretta Lynch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lynch is urging the nation's governors to make it easier for convicted felons to obtain state-issued identification after they get out of prison, part of a broader plan being announced Monday to help smooth the path for state and federal inmates who are preparing to re-enter society. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Justice offers explanation for refusing to defend part of VA reform law

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants footage from the Metropolitan Police Department's expanding body camera program to be exempt from public records requests, making the District one of an increasing number of jurisdictions trying to limit access in order to balance the technology with privacy concerns. (Associated Press)

Justice Dept. gives D.C. $1M for police body cameras

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