Attorney General Michael Mukasey has reversed a five-year-old decision that had banned a gay pride group from using Justice Department e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms.
Former solicitor general Ted Olson, chair of Rudy Giuliani’s justice advisory committee, has switched his support to John McCain after the withdrawal of his candidate from the…
Updated: Attorney General Michael Mukasey is giving a “lawyerly response” to a Senate Judiciary Committee request for an opinion on waterboarding, the Washington Post reports.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey was close to obtaining a job as a corporate monitor but gave up the assignment after he was nominated to become the AG.
The head of a political watchdog agency investigating the politicization of the U.S. Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales is complaining that the department is impeding his investigation.
The Department of Justice is seeking substantially to increase federal funding of efforts to combat gang-related crime blamed for much of the violence that occurs throughout the nation.
Updated: A survey of a little over 5,000 small and midsize law firms found that women attorneys, regardless of experience and practice area, bill at lower rates than men.
The Bush administration has agreed to turn over documents about its warrantless wiretap program to members of the House intelligence and judiciary committees.
The president acted after some intelligence committee…
The Justice Department lawyer who wrote still-secret legal opinions authorizing harsh interrogation techniques has been renominated to head the Office of Legal Counsel.
Ongoing investigations by Congress and the Department of Justice of the alleged politically motivated dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys are reportedly heading toward the boiling point.
The Justice Department has told congressional staffers that legal obstacles could hinder prosecutions of Blackwater security guards who shot and killed 17 Iraqi…
A no-bid contract awarded to the consulting firm of former Attorney General John Ashcroft has spurred a Justice Department inquiry into its procedure for selecting outside monitors to oversee company…
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