The American Civil Liberties Union charged Friday that Georgia had raised the fees for its new controversial voter ID cards without notice to the US Justice Department as required under federal law. The...
New papers by US Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. released by the National Archives Friday indicate that as a young White House lawyer in 1984 he had some doubts over American ratification of the...
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals , serving Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi from the John Minor Wisdom Courthouse in New Orleans, is moving to temporary quarters in Houston, according to Chief...
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday refused a request by Virginia Attorney General Judy Jagdmann to have the full court rehear a June ruling by a three-judge panel striking down Virginia's...
Press conference with federal officials from the US Justice Department, National Guard Bureau, Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, US Coast Guard and FEMA. September 1, 2005. Excerpts:...the Department of Justice, working with state and local...
The Chief of the US Army National Guard Bureau said Thursday in Washington that the National Guard was deploying over 4000 military police to support civilian law enforcement officers around New Orleans and elsewhere in the aftermath...
Speaking at a press conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has said she has asked for "no less than 40,000 troops" from the federal government to help restore order and assist civil authorities in the New Orleans...
Revised draft of the final Iraqi constitution received by the Iraqi National Assembly, August 28, 2005. Read the full text as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press ....
The Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act 1993 (amended 2003). Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:721. Excerpt :A. Because of the existing possibility of the occurrence of emergencies and disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from terrorist...
The Louisiana Attorney General's office late Tuesday issued a number of clarifications concerning the "martial law" assertions made earlier in the day by local officials and law enforcement agents in the wake of devastation caused by Hurricane...
