Humberto Leal Garcia was executed today in Texas for the 1994 murder and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl, despite White House concerns about violations of international law and damage…
Mark Shurtleff, Utah’s attorney general, thinks the college football Bowl Championship Series is an illegal monopoly, and he’s looking for a law firm to investigate and file suit.
Former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake pleaded guilty Friday to a minor offense in a deal in which the Justice Department agreed to drop more serious charges of possessing…
Desks say a lot about the people who work there, feng shui experts say. So why does Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley have giraffe figurines on her desk?
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a former college football player who had claimed he was unconstitutionally held as a material witness in a terrorism probe after the Sept.…
A federal judge hearing a suit involving allegations of extraordinary rendition said Thursday she is “literally speechless” at a Justice Department assertion that the plaintiff cannot give the judge classified…
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales regrets political hiring in the Justice Department’s honors program and says he is “disappointed in myself” for failing to stop it.
Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal is condemning mistakes made by a predecessor who defended the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
A California federal judge has denied a request by Muslim groups to see additional records of FBI surveillance, but not before chastising the government for “blatantly false” representations.
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