As President Barack Obama today announced a $75 billion federal mortgage bailout plan intended to help up to 9 million homeowners avert foreclosure, courts are already busy dealing with a…
In his last days in office, Vice President Dick Cheney lobbied hard for a pardon of his former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, convicted of lying and obstructing…
In the latest chapter of an ongoing saga of embarrassment for the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal judge angrily said he will hold four of its prosecutors in contempt…
Escalating violence in Mexico and Latin America from a failed U.S.-led war on drugs is putting democratic governments and their judicial systems and police forces at risk, says a report…
A lack of standing is the reason judges tossed lawsuits disputing the citizenship of Barack Obama and John McCain, and the reason a challenge to Hillary Clinton’s right to office…
Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan said at her confirmation hearing yesterday that she would have defended a law requiring universities receiving federal funding to accept military recruiters.
The new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is one of several lawyers joining the administration who are getting big lump-sum payments from their previous employers.
In a case closely watched for a preview of the Obama’s administration’s terrorism policies, a Justice Department lawyer invoked the state secrets privilege before a federal appeals court yesterday.
A perp walk on Wednesday featured more than 200 individuals in shackles and prison stripes headed to a new tent city for illegal immigrants in Phoenix.
Those in the CIA who followed legal directives of the U.S. Department of Justice won’t be prosecuted under official White House policy, even if they crossed the line into what…
Former Bush officials are taking to the airwaves to criticize everything from the Obama administration’s terrorism policies to the president’s casual clothing.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program has only been in effect a few months. But already it is the subject of potential criminal probes, as a special inspector general also announced…
An already-hot practice area apparently is being expanded with the help of a deep-pockets noncorporate client: The feds reportedly are paying top partners at a New York law firm for…
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