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News release: "House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) today released over 700 pages of on-the-record interview transcripts of Karl Rove and Harriet Miers on the U.S. attorney firings and the Bush administration’s politicization of the Department of Justice....
Federal Justice Statistics, 2006 - Statistical Tables, 5/09: "Describes criminal case processing in the federal justice system, including arrest and booking through sentencing and corrections. These statistical tables present the number of suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals...
Follow up to Backgrounder, Database and Executive Order: Closing Guantanamo, the Department of Defense released a Review of Department Compliance With President's Executive Order on Detainee Condition of Confinement: "After considerable deliberation and a comprehensive review, it is our judgment...
James Mintz Group, Issue Two, December 2008: "In the last 120 days, one of the mightiest investigative armadas in our times has been assembled to look into alleged wrongdoing and conflicts of interest in the mortgage and financial industries. So...
An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring and Other Improper Personnel Actions in the Civil Rights Division, July 2, 2008 (Released Publicly January 13, 2009) "The evidence in our investigation showed that Schlozman, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General...
"An estimated 27 million people are victims of human trafficking in the world today, and between 14,500 and 17,000 are trafficked into the United States each year. In order to help lawyers understand the complex issues human trafficking victims face,...
DOJ Office of the Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress, April 1, 2008-September 30, 2008: "This past 6-month period was one of the most productive and challenging periods for the OIG, as we completed reviews on a variety of important...
Attorney General Must Work Without Partisanship, Op-Ed, October 28, 2008, By Sen. Patrick Leahy & Sen. Arlen Specter: "In much the same way that our financial system is suffering a crisis of confidence, our Justice Department — the flagship of...
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys - Resource Management of United States Attorneys' Offices (USAOs), Audit Report 09-03, November 2008 "This Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit examined the allocation of personnel resources among USAOs. The audit also reviewed the...
Follow up to September 29, 2008 posting, DOJ: An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006, today's House Judiciary Committee Hearing on: the Continuing Investigation into the U.S. Attorneys Controversy and Related Matters Statement of Glenn A....
An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006, September 2008 (392 pages, PDF) "In sum, we believe that the process used to remove the nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 was fundamentally flawed. While Presidential appointees can be...
Follow up on previous postings related to Politicized Hiring at the Department of Justice and Firing of U.S. Attorneys, see this Legal Times (subscription req'd) article, The Goodling Report: How Aides Took Control of DOJ Hiring, by Joe Palazzolo, August...
AP - US: Ivins solely responsible for anthrax attacks Press release: "As the Department indicated last week and has been widely reported, substantial progress has been made in the Amerithrax investigation in recent years. As you know, this investigation into...
Follow up to postings on U.S. attorney firings, today's release of a report by the DOJ OIG, An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, July 28, 2008...
Brits vs. Americans: Who's Better Prepared to Weather a Recession? Richard Lloyd, The American Lawyer, March 24, 2008: "Traditionally, U.S. firms have benefited from the sheer size of the domestic U.S. economy, the American penchant for pursuing litigation at all...
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program FY 2006 Annual Report, dated November 2007 and released February 12, 2008. "Enforcement Actions: In FY 2006, U.S. Attorneys' Offices opened 836 new criminal health care fraud investigations involving 1,448 potential defendants. Federal...
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, The Department of Justice's Victim Notification System, Audit Report 08-04, January 2008, Redacted for public release (142 pages, PDF). "The Department of Justice (DOJ) Victim Notification System (VNS) is an automated system used by federal...
Press release: "Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been named 2007’s Lawyer of the Year by the ABA Journal, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association." “The top legal story of 2007 was unquestionably the unraveling of support...
Press release: "A coalition of environmental groups, states and regional governments filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today urging the agency to address the effects of vast amounts of global warming pollution from the world's aircraft fleet. The petitions...
Follow up on previous postings on U.S. Attorney firings, today's press release: "Taking the next step to enforce subpoenas that the White House has refused to heed, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday ruled that White House claims...
Press release: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., received a letter from White House Counsel Fred Fielding [August 1, 2007] asserting executive privilege in response to the Committee’s subpoenas issued to Karl Rove and J. Scott Jennings for documents...
Follow-up to previous postings related to ongoing investigations into U.S. Attorney firings, see this press release: Conyers, Judiciary Members Ask AG for Documents, Information on Alabama's Siegelman Case and Allegations of Other Selective Prosecutions Request from Conyers, Judiciary Members to...
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? – Part VI, July 11, 2007. Related postings on U.S. Attorney firings Washington Post: Miers Rebuffs Senate Subpoena - Another...
Press release: "The White House sent a letter [July 9, 2007] to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) reiterating its assertion of executive privilege in response to congressional subpoenas, but declining to provide a complete basis for its assertion. Chairman...
Press release: Justice Department Files Joint Status Report on Microsoft’s Compliance with the Final Judgments: "The Department of Justice told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia [June 19, 2007] that it has reached an agreement with Microsoft...
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? -- Part V Related postings on U.S. Attorney firings...
Press release: "The Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility sent the attached letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee today, notifying the Chairman and Ranking Member that the offices are expanding their investigation related to...
"An examination of millions of previously unavailable government records indicates that repeated official statements about the immigration enforcement efforts of the United States are misleading and may have contributed to a widespread public misunderstanding about the essential nature of this...
Follow-up to previous postings on the U.S. attorney firings, this May 25, 2007 ress release: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sent the following letter to Karl Rove’s attorney seeking access to e-mails...
Hearing on The Continuing Investigation into the U.S. Attorneys Controversy, House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, May 3, 2007. Trancript: House Hearing on Firings of U.S. Attorneys (House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law) via...
Justice Department Lists E-Mails and Memos Being Withheld in Firings of U.S. Attorneys: "The Justice Department released a list of internal documents Thursday focusing on lawmakers' concerns and media questions about the firings of eight federal prosecutors, but the department...
Questions and Answers from U.S. Attorneys Q & A from Committee for John McKay Q & A from Committee for Carol Lam Q & A from Committee for Bud Cummins Q & A from Committee for David Iglesias Iglesias Supplement...
"The Senate Judiciary Committee April 19 held a hearing concerning oversight of the Department of Justice. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified at the hearing about the abrupt dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys." Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales...
Follow-up to previous posting, White House Liaison Monica Goodling Again Refuses to Testify Before Congress on U.S. Attorney Firings, House Judiciary Committee, April 18, 2007 - Meeting to Consider a Resolution Authorizing the Chairman to Subpoena Monica Goodling and Approval...
Referencing previous postings on U.S. Attorney Firings, in anticipation of the appearance April 19, 2007 of Attorney General Gonzales before Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, here is a copy of his prepared statement....
Follow-up to postings on the escalating interest in the U.S. Attorney firings, this press release: "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report [April 12, 2007], WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations...
Via FindLaw: "The House Committee on the Judiciary subpoenas U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to produce documents and electronic information relating to the recent termination of eight U.S. attorneys. John Conyers, Chairman of the committee, accuses the Department of Justice...
Politicizing National Security, by Aziz Huq, April 4, 2007: "Aziz Huq directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in Times of Terror, and recipient of...
Follow up to previous postings on U.S. Attorney firings, this press release: "Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish appropriate safeguards to avoid...
The Third Branch, March 2007: "Some day in the not-too-distant future, locating and reading a brief filed in a federal appellate case will become as easy as finding an appeals court opinion. And electronic appellate briefs will feature hyperlinks to...
Follow up to previous postings on the firing of U.S. Attorneys, this press release: "Today, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. announced an agreement with the Justice Department (DoJ) to start interviewing Justice staffers who may have been involved in...
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? – Part III, March 29, 2007. Prepared Statement of D. Kyle Sampson, Former Chief of Staff to the Attorney General...
Follow up to March 19, 2007 posting, DOJ Releases Documents in Connection With Firings of U.S. Attorneys, today the House Judiciary Committee posted additional documents, also available on the homepage, lower right hand corner. The total release comprised 3,000 pages...
This evening the Department of Justice released 3,000 pages of documents on the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, an issue that has been the recent focus of House Judiciary Committee investigation. The House Judiciary Committee has been posting the documents,...
Press release: "Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales demanding he answer allegations that he may have advised the President to shut down an Office of Professional Responsibility...
Follow up to related postings on firings of U.S. attorneys: 3/13/2007 - Chairman Conyers Calls on White House, Justice Department to Provide Answers about the Firing of U.S. Attorneys 3/13/2007 - DOJ-Released Documents Regarding Atty. General Firings, Part I 3/13/2007...
Follow-up to March 5, 2007 posting, Judiciary Committee Hearing on Prosecutorial Independence, the following related government documents: 3/9/2007 - House Judiciary Committee Calls for White House, Miers to Provide Information on Fired U.S. Attorneys: "Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John...
Follow-up to February 22, 2007 posting, New Report Shows No Precedent for Mass U.S. Attorney Firings, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on Part II–Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and...
Press release: "Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report [U.S. Attorneys Who Have Served Less than Full Four-year Terms, 1981-2006, February 22, 2007] showing the recent...
Press release: "The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee [February 8, 2008] approved a measure sponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Arlen Specter, Patrick Leahy, and Chuck Schumer that would prevent the circumvention of the Senate's constitutional prerogative to confirm U.S. Attorneys....
U.S. Courts press release: "Nationwide implementation of the federal judiciary's Case Management and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system is nearly completed in thedistrict and bankruptcy courts. CM/ECF not only replaces the courts' old electronic docketing and case management systems, but...
Public Defense Systems, by Ken Strutin Pathfinder on the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry, by Sarah Spear The Government Domain: Google's New U.S. Government Search, by Peggy Garvin Faulkner's Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How to Select a Website Designer, by Frederick...
The Government Domain: Google's New U.S. Government Search, by Peggy Garvin A Cup of Creativi-tea: How To Enhance Your Next Meeting, by Terri Wilson CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com: The State Legislatures, by Paul Jenks Faulkner's Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How...
Another update on U.S. v. Libby, via FindLaw: "'Scooter' Libby’s defense attorneys charge that prosecutors refuse to turnover relevant discovery materials for his criminal defense, and that public interest shows "that this case is factually complex and that the government's...
Additional information related to Judiciary Chair Sends Questions to AG On Domestic Spying: Press release: "U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Russ Feingold sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter urging him to call on more current and...
Press release: "In New York, on January 17, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and the heads of the other major security agencies,...
Press release: On September 29, 2005, CCR attorneys lauded the landmark decision issued today by federal district court Judge Alvin Hellerstein that ordered the Department of Defense to release hundreds of new photographs and videotapes of abuse in Iraq that...
From Internet News - Hollywood: P2P is Not About Technology: "The entertainment industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday afternoon not to give the companies developing peer-to-peer (P2P) music file swapping software a "perpetual free pass" to engage in "mind-boggling"...
From today's Daily Business Review: "To prevent identity theft and other criminal uses of data as more court documents go online, the policy-making arm of the federal courts [U.S. Judicial Conference] has approved a plan that requires attorneys to delete...
A New Proposal to Permit Lawyers To Cite "Unpublished" Opinions: Does It Go Far Enough?: A rule proposed by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts would allow attorneys to cite unpublished opinions. This would require an amendment to the...
CAPPS II is very much in the news recently, with articles on the subject appearing in the Washington Times, Washington Post, and Federal Computer News. Rights advocates slam new screening system: "Conservative and liberal advocates are banding together to oppose...
Although there has been considerable focus on the Patriot Act as it impacts libraries, this Atlanta-Journal Constitution article details the wider impact of law enforcement's significantly increased demand for customer data from businesses that range from scuba shops to telecommunications...
A GAO report released August 12 determined that the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys has serious security issues associated with the administration of IT systems, with specific concerns detailing the operation of a virtual private network (VPN) linking the...
Via postings today on Law-Lib, the first from Judith C. Russell, the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, this important information on the status of the bookstores across the country, and the second from Marian Storck, Legal Information Specialist,...