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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a virtual meeting with family and independent farmers and ranchers at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, to discuss work to boost competition and reduce prices in the meat-processing industry. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

AG Garland defends DOJ response to Texas synagogue attack

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Anti-death penalty group to rally in Washington, press Biden to end federal executions

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Oath Keepers founder, 10 others charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ linked to Jan. 6

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. The Justice Department says it is reversing its own legal opinion and will now allow federal inmates released on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic to stay out and not return to prison. Garland's announcement comes after months of pressure on the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

AG Garland builds reputation on the right for politicizing DOJ

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Partisan double standard on gerrymandering

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

In this April 25, 2006, file photo, U.S. Attorney John Durham speaks to reporters on the steps of U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

Special counsel John Durham has spent $3.8M on Trump-Russia FBI probe

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan shows a copy of the redrawn congressional map approved by the General Assembly this week, that is crossed out in red, during a news conference where he announced his veto of the plan in Annapolis on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, has the votes to override the governor's veto. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) **FILE**

Maryland governor urges Merrick Garland to sue his state over gerrymandering

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection says it has “no choice” but to move forward with contempt charges against Meadows. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Mark Meadows blasts Jan. 6 committee’s contempt vote, says probe is politically driven

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 that it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. (AP Photo, File)

Details of Emmett Till killing still a mystery as probe ends

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tells reporters she is introducing a resolution to strip Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., of her committee assignments for repeatedly making anti-Muslim remarks aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Democrats offer plan to free more prisoners by overhauling presidential clemency process

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

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

Justice Department upgrading curbs on foreign influence agents

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Thursday July 29, 2021, photo, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's ranking member, speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

House GOP to investigate COVID unemployment cash going to China, Russia

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on investigating Hunter Biden by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why Congress must investigate Hunter Biden

By Newt Gingrich

This Friday, March 22, 2019, photo shows the Department of Justice Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

DOJ launches probe into abuses at suburban New York police department

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks as he stands next to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Oct. 21, 2020. Clark, who aligned himself with former President Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election has declined to be fully interviewed by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, ending a deposition after around 90 minutes on Friday, Nov. 5. (Yuri Gripas/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Former Trump DOJ official postpones last-chance deposition due to medical condition

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference on July 24, 2019. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, directed the Justice Department to disclose certain redacted passages from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report that relate to individuals who were investigated by prosecutors but not ultimately charged. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Court orders DOJ to release four unredacted pages of Mueller report

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 7, 2020, photo, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich speaks at a news conference in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Bob Christie) ** FILE **

Arizona AG wants DOJ to probe school board dossier on parents who oppose mask mandates, CRT

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Inspector general says Justice Dept. needs to prove it is not politicized

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Justice Department to probe underreporting of missing, murdered American Indians

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. Nearly 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019, accused of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to stealing prison property, sexually assaulting inmates and murder. Those arrested include Ray Garcia, the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Inside federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes

By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press