By Victoria Lembesis WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressional lawmakers Friday called on Attorney General William ...
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Suspend Federal Death Penalty Until Biden Takes Office, Congressional Lawmakers Urge AG Barr
Suspend Federal Death Penalty Until Biden Takes Office, Congressional Lawmakers Urge AG Barr
By Victoria Lembesis WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressional lawmakers Friday called on Attorney General William Barr to suspend all federal executions until the incoming Biden-Harris administration is able t ...
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Seattle, Portland, NYC Sue Trump, Barr and Others for Unconstitutional Anarchist Memo
Seattle, Portland, NYC Sue Trump, Barr and Others for Unconstitutional Anarchist Memo
By Julietta Bisharyan, Linh Nguyen and Lauren Smith Plaintiff cities Seattle, Washington; Portland, Orego ...
By Julietta Bisharyan, Linh Nguyen and Lauren Smith Plaintiff cities Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon and New York, New York have filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief to the U. ...
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Guest Commentary: Communities Need and Deserve a Reset of Policing and the Justice System
Guest Commentary: Communities Need and Deserve a Reset of Policing and the Justice System
Under the guise of restoring public confidence in law enforcement, President Trump’s secretive and regres ...
Under the guise of restoring public confidence in law enforcement, President Trump’s secretive and regressive Commission on Law Enforcement is stacked with old-guard failed tough-on-crime thinking tha ...
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Updated Story: Supreme Court Rushes Last-Minute Decision to Execute Man, First Time in 17 Years (Updated at 9 am)
Updated Story: Supreme Court Rushes Last-Minute Decision to Execute Man, First Time in 17 Years (Updated at 9 am)
Updated story: In the late hours on Monday, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the first execution ...
Updated story: In the late hours on Monday, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the first execution in 17 years, with an unsigned ruling. The unsigned 5-to-4 ruling saw Justices Stephen Breyer an ...
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AG Barr Announces Resumed Scheduling of Federal Executions
AG Barr Announces Resumed Scheduling of Federal Executions
by Henry Stiepleman DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Attorney General William Barr this Monday ordered the Federal ...
by Henry Stiepleman DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Attorney General William Barr this Monday ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of four men on death row, announced the Department ...
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Five COVID-19 Related Deaths at Oakdale Prison Results in ACLU Lawsuit against Federal Prisons
Five COVID-19 Related Deaths at Oakdale Prison Results in ACLU Lawsuit against Federal Prisons
By Shellsea Lomeli In efforts to release incarcerated people with a high risk of being affected by COVID- ...
By Shellsea Lomeli In efforts to release incarcerated people with a high risk of being affected by COVID-19, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana has issued a lawsuit against the Fed ...
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Bill Barr Wants Sheriffs to Join His Attacks on State and Local Governments
Bill Barr Wants Sheriffs to Join His Attacks on State and Local Governments
Communities should protect immigrants rather than serve Trump’s agenda. By Brian Tashman and Naureen Shah ...
Communities should protect immigrants rather than serve Trump’s agenda. By Brian Tashman and Naureen Shah Attorney General Bill Barr, speaking at the National Sheriffs’ Association conference in Washi ...
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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform
Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform
By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Misso ...
By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General William Barr descended on New Orleans to deliver a major policy address. ...
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors
Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors
Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his grea ...
Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his greatest vitriol was reserved for the Boston DA’s attempt to rein in police. By John Pfaff U.S. Att ...
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Yolo and Other DAs Ask DOJ to Respect Prosecutorial Discretion that Affect Immigration Determinations
Yolo and Other DAs Ask DOJ to Respect Prosecutorial Discretion that Affect Immigration Determinations
(From Press Release) – District Attorney Jeff Reisig, along with 42 other elected District Attorneys and ...
(From Press Release) – District Attorney Jeff Reisig, along with 42 other elected District Attorneys and Attorneys General from across the country, filed an amicus curiae brief on August 2, 2019, in f ...
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims
The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims
By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr ...
By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed that “Government power was used to spy on American citizens.” He went on to sa ...
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Public Deserves to See the Mueller Report With as Few Redactions as Possible
Public Deserves to See the Mueller Report With as Few Redactions as Possible
By Jennesa Calvo-Friedman Few matters are of greater public interest than the contents of the report prod ...
By Jennesa Calvo-Friedman Few matters are of greater public interest than the contents of the report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on his recently completed investigation into Russia’s in ...
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Barr’s History on Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns Critics
Barr’s History on Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns Critics
William Barr was appointed by President Trump to be the next attorney general of the US. By Manar Waheed ...
William Barr was appointed by President Trump to be the next attorney general of the US. By Manar Waheed and Brian Tashman On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on William Bar ...
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration
William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration
By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr adde ...
By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr added to the zeitgeist of “tough-on-crime” policies when he issued the Bush administration’s “24 Re ...
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Barr is as Bad as Session – If Not Worse
Barr is as Bad as Session – If Not Worse
By David Cole Donald Trump’s nomination of William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general ough ...
By David Cole Donald Trump’s nomination of William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general ought to raise alarm bells across the country. Barr is as bad as Sessions was on the full range of ...
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