loretta lynch
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Pittsburgh Steelers Add Brian Flores To Its Black Coaching Fiefdom
The NFL has an issue hiring Black coaches. Mike Tomlin does not.
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NFL Hires Former AG Loretta Lynch To Fight Discrimination Lawsuit
The league's lily-white ownership will now be defended by the first Black woman attorney general
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Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch Denies She Pushed James Comey to Downplay Probe Into Clinton Emails
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, testifying before Congress last year about how the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email use was handled, said she never told ex-FBI chief James Comey to downplay the investigation by referring to it as a “matter” as opposed to an “investigation.” Lynch’s testimony was part of transcripts released Monday by…
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Senate Judiciary Committee Investigating Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch
The Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating alleged political interference by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as part of its examination into the circumstances surrounding the removal of James Comey as FBI director. In a news release on his Senate…
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Texas GOP Congressman: Hey, Sorry About Saying Bill Clinton Tried to Kill Loretta Lynch
U.S. Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) is proof that in the age of Donald Trump, Republicans will say anything, and by “anything” I literally mean anything, and only if you are called on it do you have to walk it back. On Tuesday, Olson began his moonwalking after claiming—without evidence—that former President Bill Clinton admitted “to…
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Federal Eric Garner Probe Will Most Likely Be Resolved by Jeff Sessions
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch will not complete the Justice Department’s investigation into the choke hold death of Eric Garner before she leaves office, according to a report released Friday. The federal civil rights probe was launched months after Garner’s July 2014 death on Staten Island in New York City, when he was placed in a…
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Watch: Attorney General Loretta Lynch Discusses Federal Election Monitors for 2016 Race
In a climate where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has asked his supporters to “monitor” elections and has repeatedly called the system “rigged,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch this week released a video discussing this year’s elections and how the federal government will play a part in monitoring them. Considering that this is the first presidential contest…
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Department of Justice to Begin Collecting Data on Use of Force by Police
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will begin collecting data on deadly police encounters nationwide, starting early next year, the New York Times reports. As the report notes, it marks the beginning of the most ambitious effort the federal government has ever made to track police use of force, coming after the nation…
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NC Governor Drops Controversial ‘Bathroom Bill’ Federal Lawsuit
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has dropped his fight to get a federal court to uphold the state’s notorious H.B. 2 bill, which, among other things, regulates which bathrooms transgender people can use. NPR reports that in court documents filed Friday, McCrory wrote that pursuing the action did not serve the “interests of judicial economy…