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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with U.S. tech workers, before signing an Executive Order on hiring American workers, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

DOJ watchdog to probe Apple subpoena decision

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, March 3, 2020, photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Trump DOJ nabbed data from Adam Schiff, other House Dems with subpoenas to Apple

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this April 26, 2021, file photo Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Attorney general scheduled to meet with news leaders after DOJ sought reporters’ records

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, Monday, April 26, 2021. The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville after the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death by police during a raid at her home. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

AG Garland seeks $4B to fight cybercrime, rights violations

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

E. Jean Carroll arrives at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in New York. Carroll, who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, was expected to be in court Wednesday to hear lawyers argue whether Trump can substitute the United States for himself as the defendant in her defamation lawsuit. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

AG Garland defends backing Trump against E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

AG Merrick Garland seeks huge budget boosts for ambitious agenda

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this April 27, 2017, photo, a police officer wears a newly issued body camera in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

Justice Department reverses ban on federal agents wearing body cameras

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, June 14, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while walking across the tarmac as he boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden DOJ agrees: U.S. should defend Trump in rape lawsuit

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 9, 2018, photo, Illegally possessed firearms seized by authorities are displayed during a news conference in Los Angeles. State authorities cleared 8.6% fewer cases last year into people who are no longer are allowed to own firearms, down from a record high in 2018, through a unique California program according to a California Department of Justice report released Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Justice Department announces new proposals to close gun loopholes

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Capitol conspiracy: Feds take aim at Oath Keepers in Jan. 6 riot

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A police officer stands outside The New York Times building in New York, June 28, 2018. Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times journalists as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper said Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Justice Dept. says it’ll no longer seize reporters’ records

By ERIC TUCKER

In this Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, sections of a USA Today newspapers in Norwood, Mass. The FBI issued a subpoena demanding U.S. newspaper giant Gannett provide agents with information to track down readers of a USA Today story about a suspect in a child pornography case who fatally shot two FBI agents in February. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

FBI issues subpoena for info on readers of USA Today story

By Michael Balsamo and Gary Fields - Associated Press

Former White House counsel Don McGahn departs after appearing for questioning behind closed doors by the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Jerrold Nadler: Trump counsel ‘shed new light on several troubling events’ in 8-hour interview

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, then-White House counsel Don McGahn listens as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. After years of trying, the House Judiciary Committee is set to question McGahn on June 4, 2021, two years after House Democrats originally sought his testimony as part of investigations into former President Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

After 2-year battle, House panel to interview Don McGahn, Trump counsel

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

This May 4, 2021, photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign, the newspaper said Friday, May 7. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Republicans see ‘political bias’ in DOJ hire of outspoken Trump critic

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William P. Barr speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

Government watchdog demands IG investigation into Justice Dept.’s efforts to conceal Barr memo

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This March 2019, file photo, provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's electric chair in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina House members may soon debate whether to restart the state's stalled death penalty with the electric chair and whether to add a firing squad to the execution methods. The state's House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday, April 27, 2021, that would let condemned inmates choose death by being shot in the heart by several sharpshooters. (Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Anti-death penalty activists press Biden on campaign promise to end capital punishment

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A police officer stands outside The New York Times building in New York, June 28, 2018. Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times journalists as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper said Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Trump DOJ secretly seized 4 New York Times reporters’ phone records, newspaper says

By Eric Tucker

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, Monday, April 26, 2021. The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville after the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death by police during a raid at her home. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Merrick Garland says DOJ needs a ‘coordinator’ to combat rise in hate crimes

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Kirill Victorovich Firsov, Russian cybercriminal gets 30 months, for selling stolen U.S. data

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times