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Snopes.com
March 17, 2018
“We've heard from local law enforcement that the Justice Department has issued a memo that forced the FBI NICS background check database to drop more than ... Late last year, before President Trump took office, the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel sided with ATF and narrowed the definition of fugitives,Ãâà...
The Nation.
March 16, 2018
This is the origin story of the infamous August 1, 2002, “torture memo” authored by John Yoo when he was deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. ... Thus, it was Obama who gave the torture memos the golden-shield powers that their authors had intended.
vtdigger.org
March 15, 2018
The Trump administration's Office of Legal Counsel released a memo claiming that “individual members of Congress” who are not Chairmen of Committees “do not have the authority to conduct oversight.” This absurd claim was blasted by the current Judiciary Committee Chairman, Chuck Grassley, whoÃâà...
Rutland Herald
March 15, 2018
TheTrumpadministration's Office of Legal Counsel released a memo claiming that “individualmembers of Congress” who are not chairmen of committees “do not have the authority to conduct oversight.” This absurd claim was blasted by the current Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, whoÃâà...
Bennington Banner
March 13, 2018
The Trump administration's Office of Legal Counsel released a memo claiming that "individual members of Congress" who are not Chairmen of Committees "do not have the authority to conduct oversight." This absurd claim was blasted by the current Judiciary Committee Chairman, Chuck Grassley, whoÃâà...
TPM
March 8, 2018
Ultra-conservative super-attorney Chuck Cooper likes to talk about his ability to maintain amicable relationships in even the most polarizing circumstances. When he and Ted Olson, a former colleague of his from the Reagan Justice Department, found each other on opposing sides of the high-profileÃâà...
TIME
March 7, 2018
The Office of Legal Counsel wrote in a 2000 memo arguing a president can't be indicted, “The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions,” though it acknowledged, “neither theÃâà...
The Missoulian
March 6, 2018
... memos that concluded that none of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” proposed for terrorist suspects — such as sleep deprivation, stress positions and waterboarding — qualified as torture. At the time, he was an assistant attorney general and head of the Office of Legal Counsel at the DepartmentÃâà...
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