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Medical Marijuana Crackdown By Feds Forces Hundreds of California Shops To Close

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Medical marijuana dispensaries are shutting their doors in California. Even in the weed haven of San Francisco, three of the best-kno...

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GOP Congressman's Daughter Joins Injunction To End Federal Crackdown On Medical Marijuana in California

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.08.2012

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Cancer patient Briana Bilbray joined San Diego pot dispensaries on Monday in filing an injunction to end the federal crackdown on medical marijuana. ...

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Marijuana Support At Record High

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Fifty percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana, according to a new Gallup poll, a record high. And those numbers, up from just 36...

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Federal Charges For Ex-Felon Wild West Re-enactor In Live Ammo Fight Flub

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 09.26.2011

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — An Old West gun battle re-enactor who injured three South Dakota tourists when live ammunition was fired instead of blanks f...

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Deutsche Bank Accused Of Massive Mortgage Fraud By U.S. Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 07.03.2011

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The Justice Department sued Deutsche Bank AG, one of the world's 10 biggest banks by assets, on Tuesday for at least $1 billion for defrauding taxpaye...

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New Facts Call Into Question DOJ Investigations Past and Present

Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011

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A question reporters and the public need to pursue is whether a culture of error and cover-up prevailed in the Department of Justice under Bush and continues under President Obama.

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Alberto Gonzales On U.S. Attorney Firing Scandal: 'I Feel Angry That I Had To Go Through This'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday he's angry about being put through a long-running criminal investigation into ...

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DOJ: Bush U.S. Attorney Firing Was Inappropriately Political But Not Criminal

AP | MATT APUZZO and PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attor...

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The Smartest Guy in the Room

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shock waves from Judge Jed Rakoff's scathing denunciation of a proposed settlement between the SEC and the Bank of America are still rippling through Wall Street and Washington.

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Who's the CML Champ, Cheney or Gonzales?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nobody listens to Alberto Gonzales in large part because, putting it charitably, he was not merely an unprincipled attorney general but an uninspired one. Of course, we also tune him out because we can't be sure he's telling the truth.

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WATCH: Ryan Grim Discusses Obama's New Marijuana Policy On MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC today to talk about the Obama administration's new policy on marijuana prosecutions. The White...

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Target of Political Prosecution By Bush-Era Justice Department Fights Back

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post The prosecution had acted in a way that was "demonstrably honorable," and the defense's charges that ...

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New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

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Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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The gall of Cheney's statements is that he was a key part of the administration that deconstructed the objectivity of the Justice Department, which he now relies on to defend the use of torture.

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Bush U.S. Attorneys Still Refusing To Leave

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the better spoils of winning the presidency is the power to appoint nearly 100 top prosecutors across the country. But filling the plum jobs ha...

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DOJ: Remaining Bush U.S. Attorneys Can Stay

Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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With all the controversy surrounding the Bush administration's firings of several U.S. attorneys, the question for the Obama administration became: Wh...

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Getting Ready for the Bush Pardons

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.

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Clues Leak Out: How Obama Will Deal With Bush-Appointed US Attorneys

legaltimes.typepad.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a meeting last month with the Barack Obama's transition staff, representatives of the nation's top prosecutors caught a glimpse of the president-el...

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Bush-Loyal U.S. Attorney Refuses To Vacate Post

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Think Progress reports. when a new president is elected, U.S. attorneys generally submit their resignations to make way for the new appointees. But...

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Embattled US Attorney In Minnesota Moved To DC Post

AP | Frederic J. Frommer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, will be leaving the post to take a position at the Justice Department in Washington, ending...

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