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Republican Rep. Tom DeLay said Tuesday that former and current Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg "don't get it" when they complain about conservative criticism of judges.
A federal judge dealt a setback to the Bush administration on its warrantless surveillance program, ordering the Justice Department on Thursday to release documents about the highly classified effort within 20 days or compile a list of what it is withholding.
As the federal judiciary embarks on a historic revision of its rules against judicial misconduct, the panel of judges that's overseeing the drafting of new regulations refuses to disclose the public comments that could help shape the overhaul.
Railroads once connected the Keweenaw and its copper mines with the Midwest and beyond.
The judge turned away the last appeal of a death row inmate because the rushed filing was delayed past the court's 5 p.m. closing time.
A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government's flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of the 197 coun …
My story is, in some ways, a complicated one with many different aspects and seems to lend itself best to longer, thoughtful answers. I have just finished blogging on FireDogLake, the web site that covered the Libby trial live.
Lawyers for the Central Intelligence Agency faced pointed questions in a federal court hearing Monday morning about the agency's efforts to block disclosure of long-secret records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
150,000 people seeking citizenship are trapped in an FBI backlog. One man has waited three years, and he's suing.
Executions in the United States are on hold, as the Supreme Court debates the merits of the lethal injection.
On October 9, Charlotte Dennett, a prim Vermont woman uneasily holding her handbag, stood up in federal court in Manhattan to try yet again to pry the 60-year-old secrets about her father's death from the US government.
A local daily newspaper reports that "many pot seizures of below 500 pounds go unprosecuted." The article goes on to say that pot seizures of less than 500 pounds account for 90 percent of the seizures, and about half of all the pot seized.
Startling statements from former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's defense documents alleging the National Security Agency began building a massive call records database seven months before 9/11 aren't the only accusations that the controversial program predated the attacks of 9/11.
Did the NSA's massive call records database program pre-date the terrorist attacks of 9/11?
If foreign terrorists set out to undermine confidence in the American legal system as an arbiter of justice, they could hardly do more damage than the Bush Administration has done by its use of the "state secrets" privilege.
In what appears to be the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge has barred the Bush administration from sending a Guantánamo detainee to his home country, where he claims he would face torture, according to an order unsealed yesterday in Washington.
In defiance of U.S. President George W. Bush, Democrats on Wednesday voted to bolster civil-liberty safeguards in his anti-terror spying program and refused to shield phone companies from pending lawsuits.
He had it coming … He had it coming … he only had himself to blame … if you'd have been there … if you'd have seen it, I bet ya you would have done the same!" — Cell Block Tango; CHICAGO.
Despite his best efforts, some of the most sensitive documents filed in the case of pre-nupless, billionaire Scaife's divorce are now a matter of public record. But Scaife is fighting to have those documents hidden again -- with a legal petition that is itself sealed.
Why is Clarence Thomas bringing up the same old lies about me?
The American Bar Association says it does not want to "lend support and credibility" to what it called inadequate legal protections for the 340 men held at Guantánamo.
Over 300 police postsin Mumbay are constructed without any muncipal approval, sponsored by those connected with the underworld and power for these chowkies is pilfered from the nearest electric pole or forcibly taken from the nearest shop meter.
Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Court records for several cases involving Jesse Alton Miller, 19, show that he was the subject of juvenile court interventions almost from his birth, that he was sexually and emotionally abused by his parents, that he was rejected time and again by families he was residing with a …
The circumstances are dramatic and, of course, recall the worst of the Deep South's Jim Crow legacy, when the noose and lynchings went hand in hand with abusive law enforcement.
Three decades ago, Justice John Paul Stevens was appointed to the Supreme Court as a judicial conservative and moderate Republican. So how did he come to lead theliberal wing of a fiercely divided court?
The so-called Jena 6 refers to a group of black teenagers in Jena, La., accused of fighting a white classmate. The boys were initially facing charges of attempted murder for the brawl.
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