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U.S. Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Accusing Baltimore County Police Department of Racial Discrimination in Its Hiring Practices
Something is amiss in the Baltimore County Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to get to the bottom of it. From the Baltimore Sun: The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Baltimore County government Tuesday, alleging that a written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against…
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White Students Pose With Guns in Front of Bullet-Ridden Emmett Till Memorial, Department of Justice Launches Investigation
On what would’ve been the 78th birthday of Emmett Till came some disturbing news: three University of Mississippi students are being investigated by the Department of Justice after a picture surfaced of them posing with guns next to a memorial honoring Till’s death. ProPublica reports that the students, each of whom is white, have been…
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#StephonClark: U.S. Department of Justice Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Shooting
After both the Sacramento district attorney and the California state attorney general both declined to press criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of his grandparents’ home nearly a year ago, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it would be launching a civil rights investigation…
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#NetNeutrality: Justice Department Sticks a Pin in Its Battle With California for Now
The United States Department of Justice and the state of California have come to a deal of sorts in their battle over the rules of net neutrality—at least for now. The state of California said Friday it would not enforce what has become labeled the nation’s strictest state-level net neutrality law when it goes into…
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#NetNeutrality: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Side With the FCC in Killing the Open Internet
It has been nearly eight months since the Federal Communications Commission repealed the net neutrality that keep the internet open and free for everyone, and the repeal officially went into effect on June 11. As lawmakers in individual states do their part to try and ensure net neutrality is still a reality for their constituents,…
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Federal Judge Rules AT&T Can Purchase Time Warner for $85 Billion
When Makan Delrahim—head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division—filed a federal lawsuit in November to prevent AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, questions arose as to whether the former White House counsel was unduly influenced by Donald Trump’s seemingly personal vendetta against CNN, a company owned by Time Warner. The DOJ insisted…
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Trump Still Hates Jeff Sessions for Being Jeff Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has always been trash. He openly hates arguably the most peaceful herb of all herbs, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow openly despised his ass. That’s right: Coretta Scott King took time out of her busy day to pen a letter to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for federal…
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Trump’s Bullying of the Justice Department Again Must Mean the Russia Investigation Is Heating Up
Whenever President Donald Trump starts tweeting wildly and furiously, it usually means he’s bothered about the Russia investigation. On Sunday the president fired off a series of all-cap-and-exclamation-point-laden tweets that were all over the place. In the end, the most telling tweet, and the one that proves that Trump is about his business of deflecting…