WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Chris Coons issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), and several of their colleagues reintroduced bipartisan legislation to expand the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General to include alleged DOJ attorney misconduct. Senators Coons, Durbin, and Lee are all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Currently, the DOJ Inspector General (IG) has no authority to investigate professional misconduct by DOJ lawyers. DOJ is the only agency whose IG has such a jurisdictional carve-out. The Inspector General Access Act would simply strike this loophole, which l...