McConnell confirms he let Trump lie about the election to avoid making him angry
Former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election were repeated by the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Oliver Willis - June 28, 2021Former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election were repeated by the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Oliver Willis - June 28, 2021Former White House counsel Don McGahn is the latest person to find out the Trump administration subpoenaed his communications record in a politically motivated leak probe.
By Emily Singer - June 14, 2021Jury selection begins on March 8 in the state case of the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd.
By Associated Press - February 25, 2021William Barr claimed he found the violence at the U.S. Capitol ‘despicable.’
By Emily Singer - January 19, 2021The attorney general wrote a fawning resignation letter as rumors swirled that Trump wanted to fire him.
By Kaili Joy Gray - December 14, 2020The Trump administration is busy carrying out executions in the weeks before President-elect Biden takes office.
By Amy Lieu - December 04, 2020Heidi Stirrup is accused of demanding that staffers in the department give her information about investigations.
By Associated Press - December 03, 2020Barr recently admitted that Trump’s accusations of election fraud are unfounded.
By Oliver Willis - December 03, 2020The voter fraud is coming from inside the house.
By Emily Singer - December 03, 2020The Justice Department ‘should schedule execution dates for every single eligible death row inmate,’ Cruz wrote on Wednesday.
By Donna Provencher - December 02, 2020Trump made the comments at an indoor gathering at the White House that flouted coronavirus rules.
By Emily Singer - December 02, 2020Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as a special counsel in October.
By Associated Press - December 01, 2020His comments come despite Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the election was stolen.
By Associated Press - December 01, 2020The attorney general is once again bending to Donald Trump’s whims — this time to help try to steal the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - November 10, 2020Trump may find himself in post-election trouble without the protections afforded to a sitting president.
By Daniel Boguslaw - November 03, 2020Donald Trump and other Republicans had insisted there was an ‘Obamagate’ scandal that needed investigating.
By Emily Singer - October 14, 2020Barr is rejecting longstanding practices intended to maintain the integrity of elections.
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 08, 2020Right-wing activists fling mud at Joe Biden’s Catholic credentials as the 2020 election splits American Catholic voters in an unprecedented way.
By Donna Provencher - September 23, 2020The decision to deem peaceful New York City an ‘anarchist jurisdiction’ could cost it federal funding.
By Emily Singer - September 21, 2020Barr compared career attorneys who don’t want him intervening in Trump’s cases to ‘preschoolers.’
By Emily Singer - September 17, 2020Barr called coronavirus lockdown orders the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history’ since slavery.
By Associated Press - September 17, 2020If used, the heat ray would have made demonstrators’ skin feel as though it were on fire.
By Emily Singer - September 17, 2020It’s likely to deepen concerns that the Justice Department is functioning as a private law firm for Trump
By Associated Press - September 10, 2020Attorney General William Barr’s claims that China is a bigger election threat than Russia and about mail ballot fraud are not based in reality.
By Associated Press - September 07, 2020Trump aide Stephen Miller said without federal agents, a federal courthouse would’ve been reduced to ‘ash, smoke, rubble, and cinder.’ But evidence suggests otherwise.
By Emily Singer - July 31, 2020Trump has persistently theorized about rigged elections and never supported those theories with facts.
By Associated Press - July 30, 2020The Texas Republican returned to his office on Capitol Hill after testing positive for the coronavirus.
By Emily Singer - July 29, 2020Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Wednesday that federal agents will withdraw from the state, saying they ‘brought violence.’
By Emily Singer - July 29, 2020The Republican congressman was defending Attorney General William Barr’s decision to send federal agents into Portland against the wishes of city and state officials.
By Emily Singer - July 28, 2020Attorney General William Barr complained about Trump’s tweets to ABC News in February, but he had a different story for Congress on Tuesday.
By Oliver Willis - July 28, 2020