×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×across the country over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in , the is once again brushing aside its mandate to bring broader reform to troubled police departments that have lost ― or never had ― their community’s trust. Since President took office, his appointees at the Justice Department have the federal government’s police reform work. The Civil Rights Division’s police practices group has shrunk by half, and it hasn’t opened any major pattern-or-practice investigations that could rein in...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×across the country over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in , the is once again brushing aside its mandate to bring broader reform to troubled police departments that have lost ― or never had ― their community’s trust. Since President took office, his appointees at the Justice Department have the federal government’s police reform work. The Civil Rights Division’s police practices group has shrunk by half, and it hasn’t opened any major pattern-or-practice investigations that could rein in...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― President ’s on Saturday of a top federal prosecutor is once again drawing focus to the role that Attorney General has played as an enforcer of the president’s personal and political priorities.After a tense 24-hour standoff that began Friday night, Barr’s varied and contradictory explanations for the departure of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman extended a pattern of misleading statements he’s made during his time atop the Justice Department at a time when the nation’s policing and legal systems are...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― President ’s on Saturday of a top federal prosecutor is once again drawing focus to the role that Attorney General has played as an enforcer of the president’s personal and political priorities.After a tense 24-hour standoff that began Friday night, Barr’s varied and contradictory explanations for the departure of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman extended a pattern of misleading statements he’s made during his time atop the Justice Department at a time when the nation’s policing and legal systems are...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration is forming a Task Force on Violent Anti-Government Extremists that will “develop detailed information about violent anti-government extremist individuals, networks, and movements,” Attorney General William Barr said Friday.In a memo to top Justice Department officials, Barr said that the nation had seen “anti-government extremists engaged in indefensible acts of violence designed to undermine public order” in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd....…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration is forming a Task Force on Violent Anti-Government Extremists that will “develop detailed information about violent anti-government extremist individuals, networks, and movements,” Attorney General William Barr said Friday.In a memo to top Justice Department officials, Barr said that the nation had seen “anti-government extremists engaged in indefensible acts of violence designed to undermine public order” in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd....WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan who had investigated several of ’s associates and his company’s business dealings was fired by the president, Attorney General William Barr said in a letter.Trump , the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, on Saturday after Berman made clear he.AdvertisementOn Friday, Barr announced that Berman was “stepping down.” Just hours later, , saying he only learned of the supposed resignation through Barr’s press release. “I learned in a press release from the...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan who had investigated several of ’s associates and his company’s business dealings was fired by the president, Attorney General William Barr said in a letter.Trump , the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, on Saturday after Berman made clear he.AdvertisementOn Friday, Barr announced that Berman was “stepping down.” Just hours later, , saying he only learned of the supposed resignation through Barr’s press release. “I learned in a press release from the...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×, perhaps the most infamous lobbyist in the world and one of the faces of George W. Bush-era corruption, is facing new federal charges in connection with a lobbying and wire fraud scheme involving a new cryptocurrency called AML Bitcoin.Abramoff was charged by criminal information in connection with the indictment of Rowland Marcus Andrade. As part of the scheme, according to federal prosecutors, Andrade claimed they had technology that “would allow the AML Bitcoin cryptocurrency to comply with anti-money...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×, perhaps the most infamous lobbyist in the world and one of the faces of George W. Bush-era corruption, is facing new federal charges in connection with a lobbying and wire fraud scheme involving a new cryptocurrency called AML Bitcoin.Abramoff was charged by criminal information in connection with the indictment of Rowland Marcus Andrade. As part of the scheme, according to federal prosecutors, Andrade claimed they had technology that “would allow the AML Bitcoin cryptocurrency to comply with anti-money...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×UPDATE: 3:45 p.m. June 5 ― Federal authorities on Friday morning, hours after this HuffPost article was published.Previously:WASHINGTON ― Law enforcement agents have seized hundreds of cloth masks that read “Stop killing Black people” and “Defund police” that a Black Lives Matter-affiliated organization sent to cities around the country to protect demonstrators against the spread of COVID-19, a disease that has had a disparate impact on Black communities.AdvertisementThe Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) spent...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×UPDATE: 3:45 p.m. June 5 ― Federal authorities on Friday morning, hours after this HuffPost article was published.Previously:WASHINGTON ― Law enforcement agents have seized hundreds of cloth masks that read “Stop killing Black people” and “Defund police” that a Black Lives Matter-affiliated organization sent to cities around the country to protect demonstrators against the spread of COVID-19, a disease that has had a disparate impact on Black communities.AdvertisementThe Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) spent...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The published a passionate defense of Americans’ right to worship during the pandemic in a letter to county officials in Maryland on June 10. But the, which the Justice Department has failed to publicly correct.The DOJ was trying to make a point about a on the grounds of the Connie Morella Library in Bethesda on June 2. A , assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, informed Montgomery County officials that if they were going to support “hundreds of people packed into a...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The published a passionate defense of Americans’ right to worship during the pandemic in a letter to county officials in Maryland on June 10. But the, which the Justice Department has failed to publicly correct.The DOJ was trying to make a point about a on the grounds of the Connie Morella Library in Bethesda on June 2. A , assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, informed Montgomery County officials that if they were going to support “hundreds of people packed into a...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― A federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, moved to force a federal judge to dismiss a criminal case against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has twice admitted his guilt. The Justice Department, led by Attorney General William Barr, had moved to dismiss the case against associate Flynn, who has admitted to lying to the about his communications with the Russian government.AdvertisementJudge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a Trump...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― A federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, moved to force a federal judge to dismiss a criminal case against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has twice admitted his guilt. The Justice Department, led by Attorney General William Barr, had moved to dismiss the case against associate Flynn, who has admitted to lying to the about his communications with the Russian government.AdvertisementJudge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a Trump...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― attorneys on Wednesday offered damning testimony about Attorney General ’s alleged political interference in the department’s work involving President ’s allies and Barr’s own ideological interests., who served as a prosecutor on the special counsel team led by and was later detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as he worked on the case against former Trump associate , members of the House Judiciary Committee that it was clear there was political interference in...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― attorneys on Wednesday offered damning testimony about Attorney General ’s alleged political interference in the department’s work involving President ’s allies and Barr’s own ideological interests., who served as a prosecutor on the special counsel team led by and was later detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as he worked on the case against former Trump associate , members of the House Judiciary Committee that it was clear there was political interference in...WW…