Attorney General Michael Mukasey told the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday that the Fourth Amendment applies to bar unreasonable searches by the military during terrorism operations in the United States.
The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years, sparing those companies the cost and stigma of going to trial.
Reports of yet another controversial Justice Department memo by John Yoo have surfaced. This one said the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures doesn’t apply to military operations…
CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen has one good thing—and only one good thing—to say about John Yoo’s so-called “torture” memo: At least the Justice Department attorney was persuasive.
Updated: Some Democratic lawmakers contend a recently declassified 2003 Justice Department memo may have led to harsh treatment of military prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Updated: A newly declassified 2003 Justice Department memorandum maintains that treaties and criminal statutes against torture and assault don’t apply to military interrogators questioning al-Qaida suspects overseas because the president…
The Justice Department is considering whether to drop charges against a prominent Miami defense lawyer accused of laundering money by accepting fees from drug dealers.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in his professional life yesterday, restoring a tradition that the Justice Department’s top lawyer participate in…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey told reporters \Friday that lawyers at the Justice Department are reviewing information flowing in about the subprime crisis to see if there is a “larger criminal…
The Wall Street Journal is criticizing law professors at Boston College for using religion to justify their opposition to Michael Mukasey’s upcoming commencement speech.
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