Faced with miles of new fencing at the United States border and upgraded security technology, Mexican traffickers reportedly are using another tactic to bring illegal drugs into this country—corrupting the…
Relying on an unidentified senior administration official, the Chicago Tribune reports that the White House plans to hold in the nation’s heartland future military commission trials of…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by four former Guantanamo prisoners that alleged they were tortured and subjected to religious discrimination.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held the U.S. Department of Defense in civil contempt of court today for disobeying a prior court order that required “the appropriate agency” to…
Because he earlier accepted $2 million from the government for being mistakenly arrested in an international terrorism case and is barred by the terms of the settlement from seeking new…
The ABA announced today that it has created an extensive database to help lawyers deal with the litany of unresolved questions following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Boumediene v. Bush ruling…
ABA President Carolyn Lamm sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday, praising his move to bring detainees suspected of being involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks to trial.
When President Nixon declared that Charles Manson was guilty of seven California murders, the cult leader sought to use the comment to his advantage. He showed jurors the headline “Manson…
A federal appeals court says bail for civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart should be revoked and she should begin serving her sentence “forthwith” for passing messages from an imprisoned terrorist…
Top prosecutors from Manhattan and Alexandria, Va., visited a secret command center in the Justice Department’s headquarters on two different occasions to present their case for handling the trial of…
Updated: The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four alleged co-conspirators will be tried in federal court in New York City just blocks from the site of the…
An American citizen who was allegedly held and interrogated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia at the behest of his own country’s law enforcement agents over a several-month period in 2007…