Critics are assailing the Justice Department’s new antitrust guidelines for corporate monopolies as being too permissive, and the dissenters include a majority of the Federal Trade Commission.
The Justice Department has hired Sanford Litvack, who is a former partner at Hogan & Hartson and a former antitrust chief under President Carter, to review evidence in an antitrust…
A federal appeals court has granted a stay of a judge’s order that White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten must turn over documents to a House committee probing the…
Updated: An inspector general’s report released today concludes that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled classified information about the government’s warrantless wiretapping program and the interrogation of terrorism detainees.
Updated: A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of indictments against 13 accounting firm employees because the government pressured their employer to cut off their legal fees.
Former White House counsel Harriet Miers could be required to appear before the House Judiciary Committee as early as next month under a federal judge’s ruling yesterday.
The parties in the subpoena standoff between Congress and two former White House officials have held two meetings in an effort to resolve their differences.
Four senior Democratic senators joined today with leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee in calling for further public review before new investigative guidelines planned by Attorney General Michael Mukasey become…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey said yesterday that he’ll loosen FBI restrictions on gathering intelligence in the United States and give the agency express authority for that mission.
Updated: Attorney General Michael Mukasey told the ABA House of Delegates this morning that “politics must play no role in either the hiring of career [Department of Justice] employees or…
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey will give his first—and no doubt only—address to the ABA House of Delegates on Tuesday during the association’s annual meeting in New York City. The…
From his perch as chief legal correspondent for NBC News, Dan Abrams has developed opinions on everything from the politicization of the Justice Department to news coverage of Barack Obama.…
The husband of a law school dean who was named Ohio’s attorney general has retired from his law firm after questions about potential conflicts of interest.
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