September 23, 2020
Via: CNBCThe Department of Justice proposed legislation Wednesday to reform a key legal liability shield for the tech industry known as Section 230. The draft legislation focuses on two areas of reform. First, it aims to narrow the criteria online platforms […]
September 4, 2020
Via: ArsTechnicaAttorney General William Barr is pressuring the career lawyers at the Department of Justice to complete work on a potential antitrust case against Google by the end of September, The New York Times reports. It’s the latest sign of a […]
November 22, 2019
Via: CNBC – Top NewsAttorney General William Barr said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of “a […]
September 26, 2019
Via: FortuneIn offering Ukraine’s president the help of Attorney General William Barr in investigating political rival Joe Biden, President Donald Trump is once again inserting the nation’s top law enforcement officer into a political fray. It’s a role Barr has embraced […]
July 25, 2019
Via: CNBC – Top NewsThe federal government will resume executing death-row inmates after nearly two decades without doing so, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of five inmates convicted of […]