WASHINGTON – Former attorney general William Barr is President Donald Trump’s leading candidate to be nominated to lead the Justice Department, according to people familiar with the deliberations – a choice that could be announced in coming days as the ...

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Alex Zapesochny, co-founder and former president and CEO of iCardiac,  has announced his application for the position of New York attorney general. A 1996 graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law, Zapesochny spent three years as a prosecutor in ...

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Lots of investigations, lots of questionable results. That, in a nutshell, sums up the more than 40-year history of the role of special prosecutors, the outside lawyers the U.S. government has on occasion tapped to investigate wrongdoing by one of ...

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WASHINGTON — A growing number of Republicans joined Democratic leaders Thursday in calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step aside from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. Top Democrats demanded that Sessions go further ...

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A week into his tenure as U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions is going about the business of establishing his conservative agenda at the Justice Department — and keeping his distance from the political storms closing in. The former Republican senator ...

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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general in the Trump administration despite fierce Democratic opposition to the Alabama Republican over his record on civil rights and immigration. The 52-47 nearly party-line vote capped ...

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WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 11-9 to advance the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as attorney general. He is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate by the end of the week. Republicans, who ...

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Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has been the subject of intense debate ever since Donald Trump nominated him to be attorney general. His critics argue that he could lead a radical rollback of civil rights policies, while supporters defend his record ...

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BALTIMORE — As a younger lawyer, Loretta Lynch prosecuted New York police officers who sodomized a Haitian immigrant in a precinct bathroom. As attorney general, she’s broadened her focus to go after entire police departments for unconstitutional practices. In an ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., testified Wednesday that Jeff Sessions is the wrong man to lead the Department of Justice, saying the Republican Alabama senator’s lengthy record in Congress exposed views that are inconsistent with the venerated job he ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions cast himself as a strong protector of law and order at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, promising that as attorney general he would crack down on illegal immigration, gun violence and the “scourge of radical Islamic ...

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Next to the White House, the most talked-about federal entity in my world of the ’50s and ’60s was the Justice Department. Few editions of the Washington Afro American newspaper or weekly Jet magazine failed to contain mention of a ...

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