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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A group of more than 1,100 law school professors from across the country sent a letter to Congress Tuesday urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., for attorney general. The letter, signed by law professors ...

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has picked a veteran prosecutor to lead a new unit that will investigate and potentially prosecute police for killing unarmed civilians. Alvin Bragg, now an executive deputy attorney general for social justice, will oversee ...

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats pressed Republican leaders Thursday to schedule a vote on the president’s pick for attorney general. President Barack Obama nominated Loretta Lynch in November. She now serves as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. ...

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BUFFALO — A bank purposely avoided giving mortgages to African-Americans by locating all of its branches outside black neighborhoods and directing advertising and loan products toward largely white communities, New York’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as ...

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A settlement has been reached with Casella Waste Systems Inc., resolving concerns that its contracting practices were restrictive. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, who announced the settlement Monday, was also concerned about Cassella’s market dominance, pattern of acquisitions of smaller ...

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ALBANY (AP) — The union representing New York state troopers on Monday endorsed Republican John Cahill for attorney general, partly because of his opposition to unsealing documents about troopers’ actions during the 1971 Attica prison riot. Incumbent Democrat Eric Schneiderman ...

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In response to the Yates County state of emergency declared last week by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has issued an open letter to vendors warning against price gouging, the inflation of the price of necessary ...

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ALBANY (AP) — The New York attorney general is proposing legislation to require the state’s electric and gas utilities to assess their systems’ vulnerability to increasingly severe weather and plan to adapt and protect critical services to millions of people. ...

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