1 day ago by Broadcast.my

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the colourful and controversial spokesman for the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is under investigation by federal authorities, a source with direct knowledge of the probe said. Mayor Ray Nagin talks on a mobile phone ...

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1 day ago by gwdude

“The Justice Department on recently entered the divisive national debate over new state voting laws, rejecting South Carolina’s measure requiring photo-identification at the polls as discriminatory against minority voters. The decision by Justice’s Civil Rights Division could heighten political tens ...

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1 day ago by kavips

“Laws,” we said, are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices. . . . Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of ...

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1 day ago by MZ

I received an email today that informed me about a petition on the White House website asking for President Obama's administration to look into and comment on the reason that the Justice Department dropped the Lance Armstrong investigation. The petition ( click here to go to the petition) requires 2 ...

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2 days ago by Matthew Huisman

An Alston & Bird partner has returned to the firm after a stint with the Justice Department, the firm announced Friday. Karol Mason has rejoined as a partner in the real estate finance and capital markets group. Mason, who served for three years as a U.S. deputy associate attorney general, will work ...

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2 days ago by Phineas Fahrquar

Great. Just great. As they say on Twitter, #EpicFail : The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has acknowledged that guns were allowed into the hands of Mexican criminals for more than a year in the hope of catching “big fish.” The memorandum from staffers with the House Committee on ...

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3 days ago by Volubrjotr

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The members of the Obama Administration on the list, in alphabetical order, include: Attorney General Eric Holder Presiden ...

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3 days ago by Zoe Tillman

Handwriting analysis will continue to be admissible as scientific evidence in local courts, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled in an opinion (PDF) published this morning. A handwritten note discovered at the crime scene played a major role in the trial of Robert Pettus, who was convicte ...

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3 days ago by Reliable Sources

The joint federal-state agreement requires servicers to implement comprehensive new mortgage loan servicing standards and to commit $25 billion to resolve violations of state and federal law. These violations include servicers’ use of “robo-signed” affidavits in foreclosure proceedings; deceptive pr ...

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3 days ago by Tony Mauro

By an 11-7 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee today approved a bill that calls for television access to Supreme Court proceedings. The bill, S.1945, faces an uncertain future in the full Senate and the House of Representatives, amid separation-of-powers concerns about Congress telling the Court ho ...

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