US House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) sent a letter to the Justice Department Sunday seeking an investigation into the developing sex and ethics scandal involving Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) . Foley resigned Friday ...
Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock , speaking with reporters Friday after meeting with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other American officials about the case of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks , said it is...
The US Senate early Saturday morning unanimously ratified the US-UK Extradition Treaty that was negotiated in 2003 and statutorily incorporated into UK law ...
Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Carla Del Ponte challenged the European Union Friday to fund the war crimes court if UN monies runs dry before the...
The US House of Representatives passed a property rights bill Friday night that its proponents say will provide easier access to federal courts for landowners seeking to challenge governmental actions under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment....
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser al-Shaer, detained in August for his membership in Hamas after Hamas members in Gaza seized an Israeli soldier. Thirty-one Hamas lawmakers are still in...
The US House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday that would prohibit federal courts from awarding attorney's fees to plaintiffs challenging the use of "religious words or imagery" in a public building, a veteran's memorial, or on the official...
The chairman of the US Legal Services Corp. told a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday that the LSC board never discussed firing the inspector general now investigating allegations of fraud and waste...
A spokesperson for Patrick Fitzgerald's Office of Special Counsel told AP Tuesday that the investigation of the CIA leak case has cost taxpayers $1.44 million through August 31, and the Government Accountability Office [official...
A California senior assistant attorney general testified Tuesday that the state of California failed to use a backup IV line during the execution of Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams which unnecessarily complicated his...
