The U.S. Justice Department faces a backlog of more than 170 appeals filed by law enforcement organizations and crime victim support groups seeking to restore grants that the Trump administration abruptly canceled earlier this year,

“On the other hand, the Department of Justice will not tolerate abuses of the criminal justice process, coercive behavior, or other forms of misconduct,” Bondi’s memo continued. To the contrary, the last year has shown that the Bondi-led Justice Department will not only tolerate those actions, but actively pursue and encourage them.

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