Author: Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY

The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice is asking the Justice Department to reopen its investigation into the Cleveland boy’s 2014 shooting by police.

If confirmed, Kristen Clarke would be the first Black woman to fill the high-profile Justice Department post.

The development is a brutal defeat for the former president. Trump has dismissed the Manhattan prosecutors’ investigation as a political “witch hunt.”

Stephanie Mohr served 10 years in prison after her canine partner bit a man she suspected of burglary.

“I would appreciate more support from my own party, the Republican Party, to call this stuff out and move on,” Chris Krebs told senators Wednesday.

Though Trump has lost his legal battles, his targeting of counties with large Black and Latino voting numbers is damaging to democracy, experts say.

“Court challenges … must be based on facts, on evidence,” says the letter from 1,000 attorneys, including retired judges, former AGs and law professors.

What happened two decades ago in Florida in the race between George Bush and Al Gore is far from what’s happening in 2020, legal experts say.

Attorney General William Barr has authorized U.S. attorneys to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities during the 2020 elections, contradicting longstanding Justice Department practice of not taking steps that could impact the results…