Without federal funds, border counties struggle to prosecute minor drug cases
Click for larger image An enforcement scorecard greets motorists at the U.S. Border Patrol's Falfurrias, Texas, checkpoint. Local authorities in Brooks County say they can no longer afford to prosecute checkpoint drug cases...Read more...
DOJ #FBAR lawsuit may test 8th amendment! It’s about time.
Prologue – Department of Justice Exhibits Trophies from FBAR Fundraiser @AtticusinCanada The DOJ is "The Ministry of Love" http://t.co/PSYbgqYlAQ – What an #Orwellian World! http://t.co/p7ldrDJUjp — U.S. Citizen Abroad...Read more...
AP boss: Sources won’t talk anymore
Politico | Associated Press president Gary Pruitt on Wednesday slammed the Department of Justice for acting as “judge, jury and executioner” in the seizure of the news organization’s phone records and he said some of the wire...Read more...
DC Tea Party Rally Erupts In Chants Of “Fire Eric Holder”
At an “Audit the IRS” rally on Wednesday on Capitol Hill, ForAmerica President Brent Bozell spoke passionately about not having honest government and hot getting answers from that same government. In doing so, he culminated his...Read more...
City of Bessemer, after DOJ audit, reimburses drug fund for money spent on crime-prevention events
The Bessemer City Council voted Tuesday to reimburse the city's confiscated drug fund account in the amount of $14,500 after the U.S. Department of Justice told the city they cannot use such funds to help pay for National Night...Read more...
Rhode Island: Disabled students forced to work in sweatshop conditions
The US Department of Justice, the State of Rhode Island and the city of Providence reached an interim settlement regarding a school for developmentally disabled students who had been forced to work for as little as 14 cents per...Read more...
US eyes prosecution of foreign cyber thieves
By Richard McGregor in Washington The US is weighing whether to prosecute foreign officials for the cyber theft of American commercial and government information in an effort to raise the potential cost of such attacks. The...Read more...
Rhode Island: Disabled students forced to work in sweatshop conditions
By John Marion 20 June 2013 Last week the US Department of Justice, the State of Rhode Island, and the city of Providence reached an interim settlement regarding a school for developmentally disabled students who had been...Read more...
Insurance company boycotts schools that arm teachers
In yet another challenge to the Second Amendment, an insurance company has refused to provide its products to schools that want to protect students by arming teachers or staff members. Already, President Obama has made curbing...Read more...
Groups Seek Justice Department Intervention in Dallas-Area School Discipline
Center for Public Integrity / News Investigation Published: Wednesday 19 June 2013 Complaint alleges school districts and truancy courts are violating kids’ rights Dallas-area students who are tardy or accused of unexcused...Read more...
DOJ & Arkansas sue, as emails show Exxon misled public about oil spill contamination
by Treehugger Link Eighty days ago Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas spilling hundreds of thousands o...Read more...
DOJ & Arkansas sue, as emails show Exxon misled public about oil spill contamination
Eighty days ago Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of diluted bitumen or tar sands oil from Canada into a residential neighborhood, nearby marsh and...Read more...
Drug Money
Spending records offer rare glimpse into fiscal life of Humboldt’s drug cops by Late in the afternoon, on Nov. 19, 2010, seven agents from the Humboldt County Drug Task Force checked in to seven rooms at the Anaheim Hilton. The...Read more...
Feds' Excuse for Laggardly Lawsuits: There's a War On!
JURIST Guest Columnist Walter Olson of the Cato Institute weighs in on the Department of Justice's recent embrace of the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act..."War is the health of the state," wrote Randolph Bourne a century...Read more...
Federal Agencies Address Hepatitis B Discrimination
The Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services have sent a joint letter to the nation’s medical schools, dental schools, nursing schools, and other health-related schools...Read more...
3. DOJ urged to avoid pot showdown with state
Seven members of Washington’s congressional delegation are urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to assure that the federal government won’t penalize pot users and sellers “for activities legal under state law.” By Kyung M....Read more...
VIDEO: AP: DOJ Broke Own Rules Seizing Phone Records
President and CEO of The Associated Press, Gary Pruitt, says the Justice Department violated its own rules when it secretly seized AP phone records as part of a leak investigation. (June 19) Thanks for checking us out. Please...Read more...
Prosecuting Ratings Agencies for Mortgage-Backed Failures Misses the Point
Corrupted credit ratings: Standard & Poor’s lawsuit and the evidence … In response to the civil lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice in February 2013, Standard & Poor’s affirms that its ratings were “objective,...Read more...
State's challenge to federal health care law to go before judge
By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer on Jun 20, 2013, at 1:51 AM Updated on 6/20/13 at 2:01 AM on the bench Judge Ronald White: He'll hear the Justice Department's effort to dismiss the state attorney general's case. Will Rogers...Read more...
CIA's Involvement In Drug Trafficking (pt. 3)
Published: Aug. 20, 1996 FOR THE LAST YEAR and a half, the U.S. Department of Justice has been trying to explain why nearly everyone convicted in California's federal courts of ''crack'' cocaine trafficking is black.Read more...
Human traffickers use email, social media to victimize OFWs - U.S. State Dept
Syndicates trafficking in persons have become tech-savvy, the U.S. State Department said Thursday, noting that “traffickers increasingly used email and social networking sites to fraudulently recruit Filipinos for overseas...Read more...
Comment on BP settles criminal charges for $4 billion in spill; supervisors indicted on...
BP has agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and will pay $4 billion over five years in a settlement with the Justice Department over the April 20, 2010, drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico...Read more...
News • Judge says 'issues have shifted' for DOJ e-book trial agains
A U.S. District Court Judge presiding over the Department of Justice's antitrust trial against Apple made a cryptic statement on Wednesday, saying the "issues have shifted" after hearing two weeks worth of testimony from both...Read more...
Human traffickers use email, social media to victimize OFWs — US State Dept
Syndicates trafficking in persons have become tech-savvy, the U.S. State Department said Thursday, noting that “traffickers increasingly used email and social networking sites to fraudulently recruit Filipinos for overseas...Read more...
Eric Holder Urged to leave states with recreational Marijuana alone
Seven congressional Democrats from Washington have asked Attorney General Eric Holder for assurance the Justice Department won't punish those who sell and smoke marijuana under the state's new recreational pot law. Last...Read more...
Impeach Eric Holder!
As the Washington media continues to trip over the stumbling blocks of administration scandals and echoes of Watergate bounce off the buildings across the Potomac River, the question comes to mind: Will there be impeachment...Read more...
European Commissioner Squares Up to Eric Holder Over "Completely Illegal" Surveillance
The Obama administration is trying to quell public concern about the extent of the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. But the public relations effort is having zero impact in Europe—where a serious backlash...Read more...
United Tech (UTX) to Pay $473M in F100 Engine Litigation; Sees Possible Material Impact
FREE Breaking News Alerts from StreetInsider.com! On June 17, 2013, a federal trial court in Ohio rendered a decision in the litigation previously disclosed under the heading “F100 Engine Litigationâ€_ in the Legal...Read more...
Why not Zimbabwe?
Today’s Articles: Impeach Eric Holder 06-19-2013 02:04:50 AM The case against Attorney General Holder.…» How Quaint: Big Brother Demands ‘Privacy’ 06-19-2013 02:04:30 AM It’s amazing what can make a person feel wistful and...Read more...
Obama Administration Attempts to Intimidate State Department Whistleblower
By: Roger Aronoff President Obama doesn’t like leaks and he doesn’t like scandals. In recent weeks he’s had plenty of both. We should not be surprised, then, that the Administration is once again using its government apparatus...Read more...