Barr announces $100 million more to combat human trafficking
President Donald Trump's administration in August awarded $35 million in Justice Department grants to organizations that provide safe housing for victims of human trafficking.
U.S. attorney general under fire over comparison of virus lock-in to slavery
In remarks Wednesday night at Hillsdale College in Michigan, Barr called the lockdown orders the "greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history" since slavery.
Barr takes aim at prosecutors inside his own Justice Department
Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as "headhunters" in their pursuit of prominent targets and for using the weight of the criminal justice system to launch what he…
300 and counting: Push by feds to make arrests at U.S. protests
In a private call with federal prosecutors across the country, Attorney General William Barr's message was clear: Aggressively go after demonstrators who cause violence.
The initiative Barr discussed, dubbed "Operation Crystal Shield," was announced in cooperation with DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon in February.
Attorney General William Barr says "the Westfall Act" is the reason the Department of Justice can take over President Donald Trump's defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape.
The Justice Department is imposing new restrictions on how it conducts any secret national security surveillance of candidates for federal offices or their staff.
The Trump administration is awarding more than $35 million in Justice Department grants to nonprofit organizations that provide safe housing for survivors of human trafficking.
Attorney General William Barr faced questions from the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday in a combative hearing delayed for four months because of the coronavirus pandemic. In Barr’s first testimony in over a year, Democrats questioned him about protests in Portland,…
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