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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference at Louisville Metro Hall in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, March 8, 2023. The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisville police have engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights following an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley

Biden admin used counterterrorism powers against parents without cause: House Judiciary report

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 5, 2016, photo, Mike Weinstein, director of training and security at the National Armory gun store and gun range, wears a Ruger 1911 handgun in a holster as he teaches a concealed weapons permit class in Pompano Beach, Fla. Florida might grant authority to 2 million civilians who can lawfully carry guns tucked in waistbands, under jackets or inside purses into restaurants, shopping malls and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

GOP senators push law to codify Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ruling

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., talks to reporters before leaving Capitol Hill in Washington, on Friday, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

House antitrust panel taking aim at Big Government instead of Big Tech

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, leaves court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in New York. The former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Arrest of former FBI official revives Trump-Russia conspiracy theories

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - North Carolina state Rep. Destin Hall, R-Lenoir, speaks during the House session, Nov. 4, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. The North Carolina General Assembly began a repeat effort on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, to enact a law requiring sheriffs to hold jail inmates whom federal immigration agents are interested in picking up. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP, File)

North Carolina lawmakers try again to make sheriffs help ICE

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

Toddler with a phone. Using smart devices to calm or occupy toddlers during tantrums could stunt their healthy emotional development and make them more volatile over time, according to a new study. File photo credit: Norman Ong via Shutterstock.

Lawmakers rail against tech platforms’ alleged danger to kids, pledge new bills

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. President and Chief Financial Officer Joe Berchtold appears before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine promoting competition and protecting consumers in live entertainment on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senators browbeat Ticketmaster honcho but don’t offer a quick fix for complaints about the company

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks before former President Donald Trump at a rally in support of the campaign of Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance at Wright Bros. Aero Inc. at Dayton International Airport on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

House GOP sharpens knives for probes, tells senior Biden officials to get ready to testify

By Joseph Clark and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - The FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters on June 14, 2018, in Washington. A U.S. senator is pressing the FBI for more information after a whistleblower alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades, according to a letter early from the senator early Oct. 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Ex-FBI agent declines interview with Judiciary Republicans over agency bias

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen in Washington, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Whistleblowers reveal pattern of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct at FBI

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

From ‘legislative terrorist’ to likely Judiciary chairman: The unexpected trajectory of Jim Jordan

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko testifies to a Senate Judiciary hearing examining data security at risk, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Twitter compromised by spies from China and India, whistleblower tells lawmakers

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group says is “alarming.” (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

House GOP: Facebook flagged our posts about Biden canceling student debt

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, joined at left by Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., speaks as the panel holds an emergency meeting to advance a series of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives reject Facebook’s excuse for latest censorship of GOP: ‘No one’s buying it’

By Susan Ferrechio and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this March 18, 2014, file photo, voters cast their ballots in Hinsdale, Ill. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Lawmakers spar over Justice Department priorities during hearing on threats against election workers

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sen. Richard Durbin speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris at the C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield, Ill., Friday, June 24, 2022. The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball's antitrust exemption. Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, and Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent the letter Tuesday, June 28, to Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers.(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Minors rep asks Congress to restrict MLB antitrust exemption

By Jake Seiner - Associated Press

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., holds up his own handgun as he speaks via videoconference as the House Judiciary Committee holds an emergency meeting to advance a series of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican lawmaker demonstrates with real firearms how magazine limits would ban guns

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

House GOP calls Democrats’ new gun control package ‘theater,’ infringement on Second Amendment

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., updates reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats scoff at Republican post-midterm revenge over Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland attends a news conference to announce actions to enhance the Biden administration's environmental justice efforts, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Whistleblowers: FBI probed parents under counterterrorism ‘threat tag’ for protesting school boards

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times