Vice President Dick Cheney and more than 300 members of Congress have filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to find the handgun ban by the District of Columbia…
Updated: Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz contends that federal money laundering and sex-crime laws have been unfairly used to trap Eliot Spitzer in an unfortunate episode that shows the…
Updated: After a day of speculation about whether he would remain in office, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has announced his resignation effective Monday.
Updated: Several charges are possible against New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, accused in news reports of hiring high-priced prostitutes and paying for them in four installments of $5,000 or less.…
Updated: The investigation that led to this week’s shocking revelations about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the respected former state attorney general who reportedly linked up with a high-priced prostitute,…
Law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University is taking aim at recent decisions by the attorney general by giving a name to the legal reasoning that spurred them: Mukasey’s…
An advocacy group claims the Bush administration apparently made false and misleading statements about e-mail backups in a lawsuit alleging violations of record-keeping laws.
Law enforcement agencies across the country are spending millions of dollars to build data warehouses of domestic intelligence that can be used to fight crime and spot terrorist plots.
National security letters were improperly used in 2006 to spy on Americans and obtain private financial and communications data, Federal FBI Director William Mueller testified today before the Senate Judiciary…
An English travel agent who lives in Spain and sells Cuban trips to Europeans has been snagged by the long arm of the U.S. Treasury Department, which put his websites…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Justice Department won’t seek the prosecution of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers.
In 2005, Sen. John McCain helped pave the way for confirmation of two U.S. Supreme Court justices and other conservative judges by helping stop a vote on whether to ban…
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