The Justice Department is investigating more than a dozen current and former members of Congress for corruption, and most of the targets appear to be Republicans.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he will ask for a perjury inquiry into congressional testimony by Alberto Gonzales—unless the attorney general revises his statements.
Updated: The House Judiciary Committee has voted to forward to the full House a recommendation to issue contempt citations against former White House counsel Harriet Miers…
Updated: The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is suggesting that it may be time for the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the firings of…
The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Wednesday vote on whether to hold the president’s chief of staff and his former White House counsel in contempt of Congress.
In a “bold new assertion of executive authority” the Bush administration contends the Justice Department has no power to pursue contempt charges on behalf of Congress in response to the…
A career federal prosecutor will serve at least temporarily as the new deputy attorney general in the troubled Justice Department, replacing one of a half-dozen senior officials who have announced…
A lawyer for former White House counsel Harriet Miers sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee yesterday confirming she will not testify or provide documents.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has given the Bush Administration more time to respond to subpoenas seeking information about a program that permitted terrorism wiretaps without warrants.
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman has long maintained that his prosecution was politically motivated. Now he’s getting support from 44 former state attorneys general who are asking Congress to investigate.
Former White House political director Sara Taylor has learned some lessons since she received a Senate subpoena on her return home from a European vacation.
Former White House political director Sara Taylor testified today that she did not discuss the upcoming firings of federal prosecutors with President Bush.
Updated: The former White House political director is putting restrictions on her testimony today before a Senate committee investigating the firings of at least eight U.S. attorneys.
Updated: Did Attorney General Alberto Gonzales misspeak in April 2005 when he made this statement to senators? “There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse” of the…
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