Many federal prosecutions of large prostitution rings were brought before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when prosecutors were forced to refocus their resources. Now there are about 450 active cases,…
Twenty-two law professors at Boston College Law School are sending a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking him to withdraw as a commencement speaker.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft sparred with the chairwoman of a House Judiciary subcommittee who questioned him today about his consulting firm’s contract to monitor an Indiana medical supply company.
Law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University is taking aim at recent decisions by the attorney general by giving a name to the legal reasoning that spurred them: Mukasey’s…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey will be the first commencement speaker in some time at Boston College Law School who won’t receive its highest award, but he won’t be the last.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Justice Department won’t seek the prosecution of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers.
A federal jury in Connecticut has found five former insurance executives guilty of securities fraud in a reinsurance scheme that boosted the stock price of American International Group Inc.
The House has voted to hold former White House counsel Harriet Miers and chief of staff Josh Bolten in contempt for failing to cooperate in a probe of the firing…
A Justice Department official who signed two secret legal memos in 2005 authorizing the use of waterboarding now says the department has made no determination that the interrogation method is…
Documents released in the appeal of convicted al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui showed that Justice Department lawyers knew since at least early 2006 that the CIA destroyed a videotaped interrogation of…
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