New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is reportedly investigating eight banks to determine whether they gave misleading information to ratings agencies, resulting in ratings for mortgage products that they knew…
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is on a short list to replace Elena Kagan as solicitor general, but she isn’t saying whether she’d take the job if it is offered.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is defending the state’s payment of more than $120,000 for expert witness testimony by an anti-gay psychologist now caught up in the so-called Rentboy scandal.
Developers of a New York condo project claim in a federal lawsuit that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo violated their due process rights when he ordered them to return…
Attorney General Eric Holder says the Obama administration would like to work with Congress to develop a more flexible Miranda rule to allow longer questioning of terrorism suspects before they…
A Wall Street Journal reporter who covers the Justice Department was at home in his underwear when he checked his BlackBerry and saw an announcement at 1:09 a.m. The attorney…
Updated: Authorities arrested a suspect in the failed Times Square bombing after he had boarded a plane bound for Dubai at Kennedy Airport on Monday evening; this afternoon, a criminal…
Controversial Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen has withdrawn her nomination to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel 15 months after she was first nominated for the position.
Noted Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe is facing some constraints in his new, specially created job in the Obama administration as “senior counselor for access…
The Obama administration is apparently concerned about the agony of defeat for the 9,200 people whose pardon or commutation requests were denied by former President George W. Bush.
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