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Closing GITMO: Is This the Department of Justice's Detention Model?

William Fisher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Court, Guantanamo Trials, Gitmo Detainees, Prison Inmates, SAMs, Syed Hashmi Solitary Confinement, Special Administrative Measures, Terror-Related Crimes, Post 9/11, Department of Justice, Terror Suspects, Politics News
William Fisher

The government is already imprisoning, in the U.S., American citizens awaiting trial on terror-related charges, under what their supporters describe as draconian conditions.

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Fire Rove's Prosecutors

Don Siegelman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Karl Rove, Justice Department, Doj, Don Siegelman, Politics News
Don Siegelman

The Bush era U.S. Attorney firing issue is anything but dead. The people who did Karl Rove's dirty work are still on the job right now because only a handful of the appointees have been replaced.

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Mission Creep and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Misguided Focus

Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Panthers, Hate Crimes, Poverty, Vanderbilt University, Cnn, Lou Dobbs, Department of Justice, Southern Poverty Law Center, Justice Department, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

Mission creep occurs when an organization strays beyond its original purpose and engages in actions antithetical to its goals. Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one.

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When Will Prosecutors Begin to Be Held Accountable for Their Misconduct?

John Terzano | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Justice Project, Reform, Department of Justice, Ted Stevens, Accountability, Eric Holder, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Politics News
John Terzano

Prosecutors are the most powerful actors in our criminal justice system. Failure to respond to abuses of power is an enormous threat to public safety and to the integrity of our criminal justice system.

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Mohammed Jawad, Teenage Afghan Detainee, To Be Transferred To Civilian Court

Washington Independent | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Jawad Obama, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Obama Gitmo, Justice Department, Gitmo, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Department of Justice, Gitmo Torture, Obama Closing Gitmo, Gitmo Detainees, Mohammed Jawad, Advocacy, World News

It wasn't until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arre...

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New Evidence Reveals Feds 'Coached, Cajoled, Threatened' Star Witness in Siegelman Case

Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alabama, Don Siegelman Case, Doj, Don Siegelman, Fbi, Department of Justice, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Politics News
Brad Friedman

How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.

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Despite Leeway, Government Faring Poorly In Gitmo Suits

ProPublica | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Taliban, Hamdi-v-Rumsfeld, Gitmo, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Yaser Hamdi, Detainees, Torture, Politics News

As the Obama administration and Congress try to forge a legal framework for detaining suspected terrorists, they might want to take a close look at wh...

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'Prostitution Pledge' Injunction Appeal Dropped By DOJ

RH Reality Check | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Prostitution, Prostitution Pledge, Doj, Us Department of Justice, Department of Justice, Justice Department, World News

During a press briefing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, a young Bangladeshi woman invited by the organization for which I was...

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Holder Helped Secure Lenient Plea Deal With Bush Lawyers

The Raw Story | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doj, Bush, Farc, President Obama, Eric Holder, Bananas, Obama, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, Michael Chertoff, Department of Justice, Chiquita, Bush Administration, Carl Lindner, Columbia, Jr., Chiquita-Colombia, Carol Lam, Jeffery A. Taylor, Politics News

When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to "one count of engaging in transactions with a specia...

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Did the DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal?

Andrew Kreig | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Selective Prosecution, Department of Justice, Don Siegelman, Eric Holder, Mark Fuller, Richard Scrushy, Politics News
Andrew Kreig

You might not want to be Don Siegelman today. But would you like to be one of those who led his prosecution?

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California Removed As Defendant In Federal Gay Marriage Lawsuit

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gay Righs, California, Proposition 8, Doj, President Obama, Obama Gay Rights, Obama Gay Marriage, Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Doma, Gay Marriage, Politics News

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge has agreed to remove the state of California as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging the 1996 law that prevents the ...

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Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Central Intelligence Agency, Scott Mcclellan, Libby Trial, Doj, President Obama, Terry O'Donnell, Dan Bartlett, Obama, David Addington, Nie, Department of Justice, Newsweek, Patrick Fitzgerald, Michael Isikoff, White House, Judith Miller, Cia, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Politics News

You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

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Sam Stein

Holder: DOJ Will Do All It Can To "Deter Violence" Against Abortion Providers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holder Holocaust, Holder Tiller, Holder Abortion Providers, Department of Justice, Hodler Extremism, Eric Holder, Eric Holder Doj, Politics News

Attorney General Eric Holder offered his most forceful condemnation to date of the murder of George Tiller, a Wichita, Kansas doctor who ran a women's...

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E-Mails Show How Cheney Forced DOJ Lawyers To Approve Torture

The Washington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Dick Cheney DOJ, Dick Cheney, James Comey, Department of Justice, White House Office of Legal Counsel, Alberto Gonzales, Bush Office of Legal Counsel, Politics News

Three newly-disclosed Justice Department e-mails thoroughly vindicate the most cynical suspicions about how former vice president Dick Cheney bent ost...

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Justice Dept. Lawyers Agreed On Legality Of Harsh Interrogations

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Harsh Interrogations, Justice Dept, DOJ Lawyers, Doj, Torture, Politics News

When Justice Department lawyers engaged in a sharp internal debate in 2005 over brutal interrogation techniques, even some who believed that using to...

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Obama's Law Professor Says DOMA Unconstitutional

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unconstitutional, Marriage, Harvard University, Laurence Tribe, Equal Rights, Harvard Law School, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Department of Justice, Glad, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, Constitution, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

A campaign is underway to encourage the Department of Justice to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Georgia To Get $36 Million In Stimulus Funds

examiner.com | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business

Read More: State of Georgia, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Spending, Eric Holder Attorney General, Criminial Justice Coordinating Council, Public Safety, Georgia, Economic Stimulus, Department of Justice, Atlanta-Georgia, Business News

ATLANTA (Map, News) - Georgia law enforcement will receive a boost from more than $36 million in federal stimulus funds for public safety programs. F...

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Justice Delayed

Nan Aron | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Department of Justice, Justice, Scotus, Barack Obama, Dawn Johnsen, President Obama, Politics News
Nan Aron

Here's another reason for the filibuster threat against Dawn Johnsen: it seems that some Republican senators have an allergic reaction to women in positions of responsibility.

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Dawn Johnsen: Reid Says Another Obama Nominee May Be Blocked By GOP

Political Animal | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, Arlen Specter, Harry Reid, Confirmation, Senate Confirmation, Dawn Johnsen, Senate Majority Leader, Politics News

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have t...

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Sam Stein

Siegelman Lobbies DOJ To Intervene As Court Deadline Nears

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Don Siegelman, Corruption Case, Siegelman Doj, Lobbying Doj, Siegelman Case, Politics News

A lobbying effort to persuade the Justice Department to intervene in the politically tainted case against Don Siegelman has intensified in recent days...

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Obama Administration Fails to Remove Gun Lobby Language from Budget

Paul Helmke | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Rahm Emanuel, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Department of Justice, Tiahrt Amendment, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Obama Budget, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Obama's proposal undermines the landmark Brady Law by continuing the dangerous Bush administration policy requiring the destruction of most Brady background check records in just 24 hours.

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FBI Terror Watch List Highly Flawed: DOJ

New York Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Terror Watch List, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Global War on Terror, FBI Terror Watch List, Fbi, Department of Justice, Justice Department, War on Terrorism, Advocacy, World News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has improperly kept nearly 24,000 people on a terrorist watch list based on outdated or sometimes irrelevant infor...

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Jason Linkins

Maddow: Torture Memo Authors Should Go To Jail (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Rachael Maddow, Video, Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee, Michael Isikoff, Bush Torture, John Yoo, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Media Monitor Brian C. directs attention to a segment from last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show, in which the host responded to the recent n...

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Obama Legal Team Seeks To Limit Defendents' Right To Not Be Questioned Without Lawyer

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Obama Legal Team, Elena Kagan, Obama Elena Kagan, Defendents' Rights, Defendent Rights, Michigan v. Jackson, George W. Bush, Justice Department, Department of Justice, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 23 year-old decision that stopped police from initiating questio...

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For the Justice Department-RIAA Connection, the Fifth Time is Not The Charm

Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Recording Industry, Department of Justice, Copyright, Riaa, Jenner & Block, Intellectual Property, Ip, Ip Law, Justice Department, Intellectual Property Law, Politics News
Gigi Sohn

While there are a number of lawyers and others in the White House and elsewhere with a more balanced view of copyright, having so many recording industry lawyers concentrated in the Justice Department is particularly troubling.

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