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Former Trump administration White House adviser Steve Bannon listens as attorney David Schoen speaks to reporters outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal District Court House on Nov. 15, 2021.

Politics & Government

DOJ calls for six-month sentence for Trump ally Steve Bannon

7:13pm October 17, 2022

by Ximena Bustillo

The Justice Department said in a court filing it wants to see the former Trump adviser sentenced to six months in prison for not complying with the Jan. 6 committee's investigation.

Attorney General William Barr speaks as he stands with President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross during an event about the census in the Rose Garden at the White House earlier this month.

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House Holds Attorney General And Commerce Secretary In Contempt Over Census Probe

7:41pm July 17, 2019

by Tim Mak

Democrats have demanded documents related to the origins of Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The effort to add the question was ultimately halted.

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., had set a Monday morning deadline for Attorney General William Barr to provide access to the unredacted Mueller report.

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House Judiciary Plans Contempt Vote For Attorney General Barr Over Mueller Report

3:59pm May 06, 2019

by Tim Mak

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler issued a subpoena last month to the Justice Department to give Congress an unredacted version of the Mueller report. The deadline to comply was Monday.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, laughs with Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., right, after Cohen arrived with a bucket of fried chicken and a prop chicken because Attorney General William Barr did not appear before the committee as req

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Barr Standoff Escalates Confrontation Between White House And Congress

7:00am May 04, 2019

by Susan Davis

Attorney General William Barr's refusal to appear before a House committee is forcing Democrats to rethink their oversight strategy for the Trump administration.

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Then Baylor University President Ken Starr testifies at the House Committee on Education and Workforce on college athletes forming unions, on May 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Ken Starr's Memoir 'Contempt' Looks At The Rocky Road To Clinton Impeachment

1:57pm September 10, 2018

by Ron Elving

"An indulgent and prosperous nation readily forgave Bill Clinton and instead blamed the prosecutor," Starr writes of investigating the president. "That would be me."

Monica Lewinsky leaves her family's home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, May 26, 1998.

Excerpt: 'Monica' From Ken Starr's Forthcoming Memoir 'Contempt'

9:27am September 02, 2018

Ken Starr offers his first detailed public reflections of the independent counsel probe of President Clinton, 20 years later. Here you can read the first published excerpt — a chapter titled "Monica."