department of justice
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Devin Nunes Is Trash, the Memo Is Garbage and the Entire Trump Administration Is Basura, Explained
“Memo-gate” might be one of dumbest scandals coming out of this administration, which, let’s face it, has never read on grade level. To my understanding, because I’ve refused to follow this closely, Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who has been trash since the investigation into Donald Trump and Russia began (more on that…
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Erica Garner Recorded Justice Department Meeting on Father’s Choke Hold Death
Erica Garner may be physically gone from this world, but her fight and legacy live on. On Tuesday afternoon, posted to her Twitter account was video from a Department of Justice meeting recorded by Garner herself and showing officials from the department telling the family last year that a decision in the federal investigation into…
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Watch for the Hook: Sessions Continues His Dishonest ‘Make America Safe Again’ Tour
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the attorney general with the Mariah Carey memory, traveled to Milwaukee today to give a speech to law enforcement officers about violent crime in America. The speech painted a dystopian image of an America riddled with violent crime and promised a higher “tooth-to-tail ratio” in combating it. Sessions’ remarks gave criminal-justice-reform advocates…
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Justice Department Threatens to Sue Harvard Over Race-Based Admissions Practices
The Trump administration is squaring up for its first major legal challenge over affirmative action, as documents obtained by CNN indicate. The news network, which shared copies of the documents on its site, confirms that the Department of Justice is actively investigating Harvard’s use of race in its admissions decisions. The letters, which come from…
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‘Underwear Bomber’ Files Lawsuit Claiming US Justice Department Denies Him Free Speech, Religious Rights
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is currently serving multiple life sentences for attempting to set off a bomb in his underwear on a plane on Christmas Day in 2009, has now filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice claiming that the department is denying him his free speech and religious rights. According to Reuters,…
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Everything White People Think About Affirmative Action Is Wrong
After uniting with Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Betsy DeVos to form the Trump administration’s version of the Caucasian Avengers, Jeff Sessions has directed his efforts toward uplifting a class of people who have long been ignored by the American educational system: white people. According to documents obtained by the New York Times, the attorney…
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‘Give Me Your Tired English Speakers Only’: Surreal Exchange at the White House
‘Give Me Your Tired English-Speakers Only’ Justice Department to Seek Out Bias Against Whites K.C. Editorial: We Don’t Want to Be the New Miss. Alternative Press Tackles Deportation, Black Arrests Adams Simmons Joins National Geographic Short Takes “How strange was Wednesday’s White House press briefing?” Callum Borchers asked Wednesday for the Washington Post. “Put it…
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Are We Returning to Jim Crow?
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America great again,” many of us saw it for what it was: coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy. Since his inauguration, Trump, and those in his administration, have shown that they mean to make good on their promise to…