The Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives on Thursday postponed debate on the Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 in order to allow more time for the bill's supporters to secure...
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that he is considering proposing legislation that would suspend funding for the NSA domestic surveillance program if the Bush...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Thursday rejected a motion to dismiss criminal charges against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in connection with the leak of former...
Over one-third of documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that have been removed from public access since 1999 should not have been reclassified, according to an audit conducted by...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all...
The trial of six former high-ranking Bosnian Croat officials began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The defendants, including the former prime minister of the Croat region of Herceg-Bosna Jadranko...
The US Central Intelligence Agency has used extraordinary rendition to kidnap terror suspects in Europe and transfer them to countries known to use torture and has operated over 1,000 secret flights in European territory,...
US District Judge Donald Molloy has issued an injunction striking down three US Forest Service regulations that would have limited the public's ability to comment on proposed rules. The injunction came in response...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered US District Judge Leonie Brinkema to hold hearings on whether the National Security Agency used warrantless domestic wiretaps to...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in two cases, including Jones v. Flowers , 04-1477, where the Court held that before a state can sell property for failure...
