Justice?

…“Please explain how sending billions of dollars in cash to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism is in our country’s best interest,” the Senator and Congressman asked AG Lynch.

Lynch decided not to answer them at all.…

“It is frankly unacceptable that your department refuses to answer straightforward questions from the people’s elected representatives in Congress about an important national security issue,” they wrote to Lynch. “Your staff failed to answer any of our questions, and instead provided a copy of public testimony and a lecture about the sensitivity of information associated with this issue.”

“As the United States’ chief law enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the Fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries regarding your role in providing cash to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” Rubio and Pompeo wrote.…

Wednesday morning, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, dismissed the remaining charge against former Gov. Rick Perry. …indicted in 2014 by a Travis County grand jury for abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant… The coercion charge had been tossed out by the Third Court of Appeals in Austin last year on First Amendment grounds, and this dismissal now puts the rest of the case to an end.… It’s a victory, but a bittersweet one, coming months after Perry suspended his presidential campaign. This has been a tough year for any candidate to get traction against Donald Trump, but pending criminal charges made it even more difficult for Perry…

A Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the group … David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs… Sandra Merritt, who also worked for the center, was indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record …

After calls for an investigation from at least two advocacy groups, the Justice Department’s civil rights division will “monitor” an Arkansas gun range that declared itself a “Muslim-free zone” last fall.…

["Monitor." Synonym in the Justice Dept for "harass."]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in the case of a Tulsa Muslim who was denied a job at Abercrombie & Fitch because she wears a head covering. … She wore a black hijab to the job interview. The subject of religion did not come up.

Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the man the U.S. accuses of being the ringleader in the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, pleaded not guilty Saturday during a brief appearance in federal court in Washington. [Another Obama-created nightmare of jurisprudence, compounding upon an Obama-created nightmare of ambassadorial death. The term is clusterfuck.]

A Brooklyn judge ordered a teen to live with his homeless dad -- in a shelter -- after the boy's mom, a $90,000-a-year court worker, was critical of the legal process, court papers reveal.