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For Abuse of Office and Covering for Trump, Watchdog Group Files Formal DOJ Complaint Against AG William Barr

Attorney General William Barr chooses not to speak as President Donald J. Trump participates in a ceremony to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Edwin Meese III in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, Oct 08, 2019. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

'A Truly Historic Moment': 50 Years After Congress Passed ERA, Amendment Meets Constitutional Threshold With Virginia's Approval

Julia Conley, staff writer

The amendment is likely to be tied up in court battles following a Justice Department statement that the deadline for ratification has passed.

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In Unprecedented Move, NYC Bar Association Calls for Congress to Probe Attorney General for Partisan Bias

Jake Johnson, staff writer

The NYC Bar's letter represents the first time it or any comparable association...

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Bombshell Report on Emails About Ukraine Aid Freeze Provokes Fresh Calls for Fair Senate Impeachment Trial

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"The American people deserve a fair trial that gets to the truth, not a rigged...

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'Destruction of Checks and Balances': WH Lawyers Argued Trump Could Override Congress to Freeze Ukraine Aid

Attorney General William Barr speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press conference about the 2020 census at the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chen Mengtong/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images)

William Barr 'Must Be Removed': Letter Urges Congress to Impeach Attorney General for Repeatedly Violating Oath of Office

'Profoundly Disturbing': William Barr Says Communities That Do Not 'Respect' Police Could Lose Protections

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US Agencies Sued Over Secretive Use of Facial Recognition and Other 'Dystopian Surveillance Technology'

Warnings DOJ Has Become 'Vehicle for Trump's Political Revenge' as Barr Opens Criminal Probe of Mueller Investigation

Attorney General William Barr chooses not to speak as President Donald J. Trump participates in a ceremony to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Edwin Meese III in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, Oct 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

NYC Bar Association Calls on Trump's AG William Barr to Recuse Himself—or Resign

New York Attorney General Letitia James

Critics Warn 'Consumers Will Pay the Price' After GOP-Controlled FCC Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger

'Literally Relitigating Watergate': Trump DOJ Argues Court Was Wrong to Hand Over Grand Jury Material in Nixon Impeachment Inquiry

"It's a Criminal Enterprise": Calls to Impeach Barr Intensify After Reports AG Pressured Foreign Officials to Help Discredit Mueller Probe

'Impeach Barr, Too': Critics Demand Attorney General's Ouster for Refusing to Investigate Trump-Ukraine Call

Snowden Responds After DOJ Sues Whistleblower Over Memoir US Government 'Does Not Want You to Read'

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'Vision for Justice': 117 Rights Groups Offer Roadmap to Transform US Criminal-Legal System

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Democracy 21

Democracy 21 Files Complaint Against Attorney General Barr for Repeated Failures to Comply with DOJ Norms, Rules and Standards of Conduct

Common Cause

Common Cause Calls for Impeachment of Attorney General William Barr

Indigenous Environmental Network

Native American COP25 Delegation Demands United States Take Action to Protect Indigenous Women

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Sues DHS to Obtain Information About the Agency’s Use of Rapid DNA Testing on Migrant Families at the Border

Public Citizen

Lack of Prosecution, Soft Punishments Lead to Repeated Corporate Law Breaking

Common Cause

DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Others for Illegal Solicitation of Contribution from Ukrainian President

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Paul Seamus Ryan

The "Quid" Is a Crime: No Need to Prove "Pro Quo" in Ukrainegate

Jesse Jackson

Violent White Supremacists Threaten Basic Civil Rights—and Our Lives

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

The Ghastly Return of the Federal Death Penalty

David Dayen

Trump’s Antitrust Cops Fail to Police Big Business—Again

Ashley Gorski

The Hypocrisy of William Barr's Spying Claims

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Mueller Just Invited Congress To Do Its Job: Impeach Trump

David Cole

The Mueller Report: An Indictment in All But Name

Thom Hartmann

Has "Cover-Up General" William Barr Struck Again?

Sam Husseini

Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr’s Record

Jefferson Morley

William Barr’s Deep State Resume: Cover-Ups, Covert Ops, and Pardons