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Department of Justice Opens Investigation into Tax Avoidance Exposed by Panama Papers Leak
Brendan O'Connor · 04/20/16 02:15PMDOJ to Sue Ferguson After City Backs Out of Police Reform Deal
Andy Cush · 02/10/16 06:15PMTwo weeks ago, Ferguson officials and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that they’d come to an amicable deal over police reform, which would bring law enforcement in the Missouri city more in line with the constitution and avoid a lengthy battle in court. So much for all that: after Ferguson welched on the deal this week, the DOJ announced its plans to sue.
Ferguson Police Promise Feds They'll Stop Making Illegal Arrests and Searches
Andy Cush · 01/28/16 09:09AMIn avoidance of a long and expensive court fight with the U.S. Department of Justice, the city of Ferguson has agreed to a package of federally recommended reforms to the ways in which its police department operates. The agreement comes after the release of a DOJ report last year that laid out the racial unfairness and misconduct of the city’s cops in harsh detail.
Justice Dept.: Human Beings Need Sleep, So Stop Fining Them for Sleeping Outside
Jay Hathaway · 08/13/15 01:02PMHuman beings need sleep. Homeless people are human beings. Therefore, homeless people need sleep and shouldn’t be banned from getting it in what is often the only place they can: outdoors. That’s the simple argument the Justice Department is making in a case out of Boise, Idaho, one of the many U.S. cities with inadequate shelter space that have nonetheless attempted to bar unhoused people from sleeping outside.
DOJ Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Baltimore Police Department
Taylor Berman · 05/08/15 09:20AMAttorney General Loretta Lynch just announced a federal civil rights investigation into the Baltimore police department in response to the death of Freddie Gray. A similar investigation by the DOJ into the Ferguson police department uncovered systematic racism and well-documented examples of police brutality.
State Judge to Take Over Ferguson Cases After Damning DOJ Report
Hudson Hongo · 03/09/15 07:05PMTwo Ferguson Cops, Court Clerk Lose Jobs Over Racist Emails
Taylor Berman · 03/06/15 04:50PMTwo Ferguson police officers have reportedly resigned and a court clerk has been fired for sending or receiving racist emails, according to the St. Louis Dispatch. The dismissals come just two days after the Department of Justice released a damning report exposing the Ferguson Police Department as fundamentally racist.
Department of Justice to Investigate Bob Menendez For Corruption
Aleksander Chan · 03/06/15 03:42PMDOJ Asks Ferguson Cops to Stop Wearing "I Am Darren Wilson" Bracelets
Andy Cush · 09/29/14 11:06AMHuge Scope of Electronic Surveillance Hidden In Sealed Court Files
Michelle Dean · 06/03/14 12:17PMIn the Age of Edward Snowden, few people expect anything but widespread surveillance. Important fact, though: the culprits aren't just the NSA. Often it's just plain old regular federal law enforcement behind the veil. And as a story at the Wall Street Journal yesterday highlighted, courts only lightly get to supervise.
The Real Aaron Swartz "Inside Story": The Feds' Terrifying Aggression
Michelle Dean · 03/31/14 12:00PMAdam Weinstein · 02/10/14 03:09PM
Eric Holder "told me that he will leave office sometime this year," Jeffrey Toobin writes in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Holder, the first African-American attorney general in U.S. history and a favorite punching-bag of conservatives, has long been rumored to be on his way out at the Justice Department.
Cord Jefferson · 05/14/13 06:16PM
Anonymous Hacks Department of Justice Website, Threatens to Launch 'Multiple Warheads'
Robert Kessler · 01/26/13 11:21AMThe website belonging to the United States Sentencing Commission is down this morning, following a hack by Anonymous overnight. The site, which normally bears information about sentencing guidelines for federal crimes, instead showed a nearly 10 minute long YouTube video and the same message typed below it.
The Government's Horrifying Censorship of a Music Blog
Ryan Tate · 12/08/11 06:39PMFeds Celebrate Cyber Monday With Massive Domain Name Seizure
Lauri Apple · 11/26/11 01:49PMAG Holder Targeted in Investigation of Failed Gun-Tracking Operation
Lauri Apple · 10/09/11 04:35PMFans of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and his Mustache of Justice might want to send him some "Good Luck With Your Subpoena" greeting cards: Earlier today Rep. Darrell Issa told Fox News Sunday that he's curious about what Holder knew regarding the Failed Fast and Furious gun trafficking sting, when Holder knew it, and who authorized the sting in the first place.