President Obama has ordered federal agencies and departments to strike pre-emption language from regulations unless it can be legally justified, a move that has won applause from trial lawyers.
A coalition of left-leaning advocacy groups has filed ethics complaints against three former attorneys general and nine other Bush administration lawyers for advocating the use of harsh interrogation techniques against…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an oversight board created by the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate oversight law is an unconstitutional “fifth branch” of government.
A cable TV installer who says his detention after the Sept. 11 attacks was motivated by racial, religious and national origin bias has failed to allege specific facts allowing him…
Citing pending litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has declined a request by Richard Cheney to declassify two documents that the former vice president contends would show…
A special prosecutor who is investigating accusations related to the claimed political firings of at least nine U.S. Attorneys during the Bush administration is scheduled to question former senior White…
Did a newspaper story earlier this week send a signal that President Obama may not name a Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme Court when he makes his first appointment?
The Obama administration has reversed course and decided it will oppose releasing photos of claimed prisoner abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anonymous officials told several publications that…
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