An article suggesting a possible link between an appeals court nomination and a health care vote is prompting denials from the congressman whose brother was tapped for the judgeship.
Although a U.S. Department of Justice report last week recommended no sanctions be pursued against two lawyers who authored controversial terrorism memos, that doesn’t appear to be the final answer…
In an about-face from earlier internal recommendations that two former Department of Justice lawyers be pursued for alleged ethics violations concerning their authorship of legal memoranda blessing controversial interrogation techniques…
Citing a lack of evidence to prove that New York City police “acted willfully” when they fired some 50 shots at an unarmed African-American man leaving his bachelor party on…
Responding to political backlash, President Obama plans to insert himself into the decision about where to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind behind the 9-11 terror attacks.
An appeals court in the United Kingdom has required the British government to release an unredacted version of a seven-paragraph document summarizing U.S. intelligence information about the 2002 interrogation of…
A landmark campaign-finance decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last month striking corporate spending limits as an unconstitutional restriction of companies’ free speech reflects the influence of the Reagan era,…
As malicious cyber attacks apparently are occurring more frequently and with more sophistication than ever before, a search engine giant has turned to a U.S. spy agency for help in…
Former Justice Department lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo are likely to be relieved by a forthcoming report that concludes they exercised “poor judgment” in legal memos authorizing harsh interrogation…
After being sanctioned $20,000 in another jurisdiction over her “wild accusations” in a case that challenged the nation’s president’s authority to govern, attorney Orly…
In an apparent effort to deter protesters potentially seeking to make a scene at a state constitutional law class taught by the controversial John Yoo, the University…
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