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Justice Department makes a splash with politically sensitive cases and actions during midterm blitz

WASHINGTON (AP) — A crucial and contentious midterm election arrives next week, and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has been scrambling with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that defense lawyers, Democrats and other critics say is no coincidence and reeks of politics — in bot

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