Prosecutors today unexpectedly canceled the first court hearing scheduled for the “underpants bomber” — the Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet en route to Detroit on Friday.
The Justice Department was expected to seek a warrant to take a DNA sample from More…
The Department of Justice this morning announced that twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region.
Here’s the announcement, with the names of the detainees, which had previously been withheld:
As directed by the President’s
Federal criminal prosecutions reached an all-time high in Fiscal Year 2009, driven by a sharp increase in immigration prosecutions. According to case-by-case data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), overall federal prosecutions were up nearly 9 percent from the previous year, but More…
Does a House bill about legal civil procedures provide a way to restore the protection of civil rights in America, or is it an unwarranted gift to trial lawyers that could be “paralyzing if not deadly” to the federal government?
That’s the question a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee More…
At the beginning of this month, I noted that Attorney General Eric Holder, despite an explicit promise to Congress to produce by the end of last month the much-awaited ethics report from the Office of Professional Responsibility on the work of Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted the so-called More…
The United States today released Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah to his native Kuwait after holding him for nearly eight years at Guantanamo Bay.
According to the Department of Justice, Al Rabiah had been cleared for transfer by the government’s Guantanamo Review Task Force. On Sept. 17, More…
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano whether Attorney General Eric Holder consulted her before deciding to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators in a federal court in New York.
“No, I was not consulted,” said Napolitano. More…
Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just opened this morning’s hearing that’s supposed to be about oversight of the Department of Homeland Security with a quick jab at Attorney General Eric Holder for his decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged terrorists to the United States More…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court’s newest addition, was given the honor of issuing the first ruling of the Supreme Court’s term yesterday. On its face, the case — about the right to appeal a judge’s order to disclose confidential attorney-client communications — doesn’t look very controversial, and More…
How did prison guards at Guantanamo Bay overlook three men hanging from nooses in their cells for more than two hours, in what was supposed to be a super-high security prison housing “the worst of the worst” terrorists in the world?
That’s one of the central questions addressed by More…
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