A controversial Arizona sheriff who seemingly scores points with many of his constituents by acting as something of a law unto himself was sued today by the U.S. Department of…
There are 876 federal judgeships in the United States. But an increasing number are unfilled, and nearly half of these seats could be vacant by the end of the decade…
Finding that a plan by the Obama administration to expand federally funded research using human embryonic stem cells likely is prohibited by a federal law banning the use of government…
A group of civil rights lawyers filed suit in Washington, D.C., today to challenge a new federal rule requiring lawyers in certain terrorism cases to obtain a license from the…
Once upon a time when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg, both he and the newspaper made decisions to withhold some of the…
As the fallout continues from the biggest financial crisis in 80 years, there has been exactly one major related criminal conviction–for Bernard Madoff’s stupendous Ponzi scheme, reports the Jul 23, 2010 12:38 AM CDT
A special prosecutor brought in by the Department of Justice to investigate the apparent politically motivated 2006 firings of at least nine United States attorneys has concluded that no criminal…
A former top official at the Department of Justice known for having blessed harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, for terrorism suspects has told congressional investigators that the CIA used techniques…
An effort by bankruptcy creditors to obtain the one valuable asset of a dying website—its database of information about 1 million subscribers and users—is raising privacy concerns both in the…
Four police officers and two supervisors have been federally indicted in a civil rights case over civilian deaths on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane…
In a new wrinkle in the already-controversial terrorism case against a Canadian man imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay since he was a juvenile, a United States military tribunal in Cuba has…
A federal judge in Boston today struck down the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, saying that the 1996 statute’s prohibition against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
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