Sessions' Targeting of Sanctuary Cities Not Exactly What It Appears
The rule invoked is about communication and doesn't require cities detain or help deport immigrants.
The rule invoked is about communication and doesn't require cities detain or help deport immigrants.
Man faces possible prison time for triggering a journalist's seizure.
Instead it turns citizens against their protectors.
The right move even before the latest revelations.
If Jeff Sessions tries to shut down state-licensed cannabusinesses, he will betray his own principles.
Sessions says the reports he didn't read on unconstitutional policing were "pretty anecdotal and not so scientifically based."
The attorney general ties legalization to violence, interstate smuggling, underage consumption, and health hazards.
Trump to withdraw Obama administration's guidance, but that doesn't actually stop case moving forward.
Sen. Rand Paul votes aye with rest of GOP.
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates wrote to DOJ lawyers that the department had to "always seek justice and stand for what is right."
Mayor and president use their bully pulpits to kvetch at each other. Does it even mean anything?
They take $5 billion and give back $100 million to crime victims. These numbers don't add up.
The Justice Department's scathing report finds a pattern of unconstitutional force, retaliation, and a code of silence.
More federal employees will have access to raw intel data gathered without warrants.
Are they 'fixing' the department or just rebuilding it from scratch?
Prohibitionists want the next attorney general to criminalize online betting by rewriting federal law.
And would it actually improve accountability for police misconduct anyway?
Attorney general confirmation hearings continue today; Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to testify against Sessions.
The next attorney general could crack down on state-licensed cannabusinesses without changing the State Department's official position.
Sessions hearing brings out the worst in senatorial statism, Matt Welch argues in the L.A. Times
As attorney general, Sessions says he will prosecute "obscenity" and recuse himself from any Clinton investigations.
Trump's nominee for Attorney General is at odds with many of his GOP colleagues on asset forfeiture and a host of other criminal justice issues.
Sen. Sessions' endorsement of civil forfeiture gets public criticism.
The jailhouse snitch scandal in Orange County has tainted numerous cases so far. Now the Justice Department is stepping in.
The feds still haven't implemented body cameras for their own law enforcement officers.
Hopefully, federal "dysfunction and incompetence" will undermine any attempts at vengeance.
There's a norm, people! A norm!
Amid debate over encryption access, feds try to just sneak right through.
But will the DOJ actually penalize police departments that don't share data by withholding federal grant money?
Podesta leak acknowledges her 'instincts' are to accept law enforcement's claims on encryption access and surveillance.
The nominee can protect herself with ease. What about everyday Americans?
Nearly 100 civil rights groups say the Justice Department needs to withhold grants from police departments that refuse to fork over data.
Forensic science is firmly weighted in favor of prosecutors and law enforcement, and the Justice Department intends on keeping it that way.
Justice Dept. was trying to track down $300,000 missing from fund
The Justice Dept. doesn't think we need to know when they're looking at info about us.
Useful training or basic manners?
Bails that don't consider defendants' ability to pay "are not only unconstitutional, but they also constitute bad public policy," the Justice Department said.
The move will only affect 13 prisons, or about 12 percent of the federal prison population.
The appeals court rules that Congress has forbidden such interference.
Justice Dept. report on Baltimore Police shows little respect for the Fourth Amendment.
Unconstitutional stops, excessive force, racist slurs, and little internal oversight.
James Comey says justice demands proof of criminal intent, even when the law doesn't.
FBI Director James Comey fails to understand that extreme recklessness is gross negligence.
A.G. Loretta Lynch accepts FBI recommendation.
Why did the FBI recommend against prosecuting her for gross negligence in handling classified material?
Intent matters, but sometimes only when authorities decide it does, like if it turns out you're Hillary Clinton.
It's not about fighting terrorism; it's about finding leakers.