The state of California is teaming up with the city of San Francisco against new conditions on federal crime-fighting grants imposed on sanctuary cities by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Read moreThe editor of a prominent law blog filed a federal complaint Friday to find out why President Donald Trump claimed, without supporting evidence, that the majority of terrorism convicts since 9/11 are foreign-born.
Read moreIn the nearly 100 years since enactment of the 1918 Espionage Act, the government has chosen – out of respect for press freedom – not to prosecute journalists. That harmony skipped a beat last week, however, when the Justice Department announced it would review media-subpoena policies to address the leaky faucet of classified leaks.
Read moreThe Justice Department reversed itself Monday in a high-profile voting-rights case and is now throwing support behind Ohio’s effort to restore a procedure allowing the state to purge inactive voters who don’t respond to registration notices.
Read moreCHICAGO (CN) – Chicago sued the Trump administration Monday over new Justice Department grant guidelines that would force sanctuary cities to aggressively
Read moreBuzzFeed investigative reporter Jason Leopold brought a federal complaint Friday to pry loose government records that could shed more light on conflicting accounts of how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former media czar died in a Washington hotel two years ago.
Read more(CN) – Chicago has always been a town tough on crime. Now, in the wake of a $1.2 billion takedown
Read moreHours after the White House pushed to ban transgender troops, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief in a New York-based appeals court opposing protecting workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Read moreU.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department will no longer award $385 million in grants to cities and states that refuse to help federal agents detain undocumented immigrants at local jails.
Read moreThe former general manager of a telecommunications company in Miami pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, admitting to a role in a bribery scheme aimed at locking down a contract with the state-owned telecommunications company in Haiti.
Read moreAttorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday announced a Justice Department take down of AlphaBay, the largest marketplace on the “dark web” that allowed people to anonymously purchase drugs like fentanyl and heroin.
Read moreA longtime West Virginia landlord agreed to pay $600,000 and transfer the ownership of 70 rental properties to settle claims he sexually harassed current and prospective tenants.
Read moreThe Justice Department on Tuesday asked the Ninth Circuit to reverse a preliminary injunction in a class action involving asylum-seekers and undocumented immigrants who do not pose a flight risk but were detained because they could not afford bail.
Read moreA federal judge has rejected the government’s push to forbid Twitter from publishing its own information on government surveillance, calling into question the constitutionality of blocking the company’s ability to do so.
Read moreA journalist and documentary filmmaker sued the Justice Department for the release of FBI records about a surveillance program she says targeted Arab-American communities outside Chicago before 9/11.
Read moreSenate Democrats on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s environmental arm, calling out his past statements skeptical of climate change science and his unwillingness to directly answer their questions on the issue.
Read moreThe federal government is concealing a policy on when it must notify criminal defendants that evidence used against them was obtained through a secret government spying program, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed in court Wednesday.
Read moreBy a rare 4-2 vote Monday, the Supreme Court sidelined damages claims against high executive officers at the Justice Department over the inhumane treatment suffered by Muslim, South Asian and Arab men in the name of national security after 9/11.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union’s latest bid to declassify a host of sensitive rulings by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court spurred a pointed rebuttal from Justice Department officials.
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