Lawyers for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich are preparing a possible lawsuit to challenge procedures being used in his upcoming impeachment trial. But it may never be filed.
Already equipped with a super-encrypted BlackBerry, President Barack Obama apparently is light years ahead of many of his White House staff on the technological front.
President Barack Obama signed executive orders today closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year and ending harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects.
Because he got one word out of sequence when taking the oath of office during his inauguration yesterday, President Barack Obama took it again tonight out of an “abundance of…
A planned vote today by the Senate Judiciary Committee on whether to support Eric Holder’s nomination as U.S. attorney general has been delayed for a week at the request of…
In his one of his first acts in office yesterday, President Barack Obama instructed prosecutors to seek 120-day delays in all cases now before U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay…
Lawyers who refused to defend Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich at his impeachment trial say their decision was made in protest of an unfair proceeding rather than over…
Aided by an office fortuitously located along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan held a blockbuster office party today in honor of now-President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
If they go bankrupt, real estate investors who don’t live in the homes they purchase can ask a judge to reduce the principal balances on their mortgage loans.
In his inaugural speech today, Barack Obama called on Americans to embrace “a new era of responsibility” and to “pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work.”
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