Orders for durable goods expected to last at least 3 years jump more than expected in July.

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The Obama administration legally can pay the embattled community organizing group ACORN for services performed under contracts approved before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group, the Justice Department has declared.

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The five detainees heading to civilian court in New York to face charges they orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are:

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In May of 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney was questioned by federal investigators about his role in the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. Today, in response to a court order resulting from a suit brought by CREW, notes from that interview were finally released.

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Two newly-obtained documents show how American diplomats during the Bush administration worked tenaciously to incorporate what is commonly known as the Nuremberg Defense into a new international convention addressing enforced disappearances.

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On the same day the Washington Post publishes an article on what a wonderful intelligence asset Khalid Sheik Mohammed became after he was shackled, diapered, sleep-deprived for 7 1/2 days and waterboarded 183 times, the WaPo's editor, Fred Hiatt, recommends that America invite tw …

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Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.

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Obama Can't or Won't Procecute Bush/Cheney E I T or TORTURE

Being older than some history books................................I remember when,The Justice Department ,USED to be a autonomous entity from the executive branch. Not a branch of 'in house' attorneys for the President.

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It is a telling reflection of the priorities of the last president that one of the few civil rights cases before the nation's high court this year is a reverse discrimination case.

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"The Obama administration intends to declassify and publicly release three Justice Department memorandums drafted in May 2005 that gave CIA interrogators the legal authorization to torture "high-value" detainees as well as a list of techniques to use against the prisoners, accor …

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A day after releasing a set of Bush administration opinions that claimed sweeping presidential powers in fighting terrorism, the Obama administration faced new pressure on Tuesday to support a broad inquiry into interrogation, detention, surveillance and other practices under Pre …

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The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight.

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A significant plurality favor outright criminal probes, though they are not a majority. Another portion prefer an independent investigation by a special panel. Interesting numbers coming out of the Gallup poll:

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As internal government reports and congressional hearings have documented, the Bush Justice Department over the last eight years expelled or ignored attorneys that it didn't agree with and replaced them with inexperienced lawyers hired more for their ideology than their qualifi …

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Within the ranks of our leading law schools, law firms and legal centers, it would be hard to find a cause more popular than the detainees of Guantanamo Bay. Every lawyer wants his own detainee or detainee group.

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At the Beverly Hills office of criminal defense lawyer Edward M. Robbins Jr., anxious new clients are showing up with an unexpected problem.

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After serving Alaska since before it became a State, the longest serving Senator in Washington fights for his political life.

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Thus, states began using Social Security and motor vehicle databases to screen voter lists and purge voters instead of following the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to contact a voter over a four-year period before removing them and to conduct no purges clo …

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The Justice Department made public on Friday a plan to expand the tools the Federal Bureau of Investigation can use to investigate suspicions of terrorism inside the United States, even without any direct evidence of wrongdoing.

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Some Democratic senators and civil liberties groups have said the proposals would allow Americans to be targets in part because of race, ethnicity or religion — and to be spied on without any other basis for suspicion

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from the blackchronicle.com/Aug.14,2008 "After extensive investigation," the medical examiner wrote, "no consistent and reasonable explanation for the decedent's injuries has been proposed."

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Dear Readers, We have only a week to make comments to show support for the best parts of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Department of Justice has several proposed changes on the table, some of which are good but several of which would weaken the law.

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The Justice Department is investigating the lawyers whose memos gave the Bush Administration the legal support it needed for waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques.

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The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chi …

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Requests under Section 215, the so-called "Library Provision," allow the FBI to obtain business record information. The Inspector General found that on two occasions, the FISA Court denied the requests under the Patriot Act.

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Another story by McClatchy which shows the stain of corruption on the Republican Party keeps growing bigger and bigger.The Justice Department delayed prosecuting a key Republican official for jamming the phones of New Hampshire Democrats until after the 2004 election.An official  …

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