As Congress prepares to update a 33-year-old law that governs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of toxic chemicals, the executive branch is seeking more authority over what officials describe…
Problem-solver Pete Rouse, a former Congressional aide and top adviser, has replaced White House Counsel Gregory Craig as the individual in charge of the Obama administration’s planned closure of the…
In a sealed decision last week that was declassified today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., orders the release of a 50-year-old Kuwait Airlines engineer and slammed the United States…
A U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing can be a difficult process. It turns out, that just getting to Washington, D.C., for the nomination announcement can also involve some twists and…
You might think that a private-mail sent to another U.S. citizen’s personal account isn’t subject to government monitoring. But that assumption could be wrong if the recipient is a federal…
In a letter sent to the White House today, seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency ask President Barack Obama to overrule U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dismissed former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Department of Justice illegally blacklisted job applicants based on…
A federal judge in Georgia has warned a lawyer contending in a court filing that President Barack Obama didn’t have the authority to deploy a U.S. Army captain to Iraq…
A little-noticed Justice Department memorandum asserts that the Obama administration can ignore a law barring U.S. officials from attending meetings led by nations considered to be sponsors of terrorism.
Fired two years ago in a political purge of federal prosecutors during the Bush administration, a former U.S. attorney for Nevada has now been rehired.
A recent federal appeals court ruling provides an unusually detailed roadmap to prosecutors about appropriate electronic discovery parameters and procedures and could create a sea change in the way the…
In a speech yesterday on health care reform to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama offered few details of possible changes to medical malpractice laws that could accompany…
A Yale-educated lawyer who was President Obama’s special adviser for environmental jobs has resigned in the wake of controversy over his past statements and his signature on a Sept. 11…
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