Topic: U.S. Department of Justice

Fla. AG investigating if voting-machine firm's sale to rival breaks antitrust lawsFlorida's attorney general is investigating whether the sale of a voting-machine maker to a rival concentrates too much power in one company.Attorney General Bill McCollum confirmed Wednesday that his office was ...
Justice Department takes a pass on bid for posthumous pardon of boxer Jack JohnsonThe Justice Department is refusing to back a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ...

Prosecutor pushing the law

Federal subpoena shows how Justice Department overstepped its bounds Three days after George W. Bush left the White House, a federal prosecutor in Indiana issued a subpoena to an independent news Web site asking for a cache of data. U.S. Attorney Tim ...
Privacy, anti-terrorism, media issues divide Obama and his liberal allies in CongressNew cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue some Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to ...
Technology, telecommunications industries prepare for stepped up antitrust oversightAfter eight years of light antitrust scrutiny under a Republican White House, the technology and telecommunications industries are bracing for stepped up oversight by the Obama administration's Justice Department.Christine Varney, the head of the ...
Judge orders FBI to release much of its interview with Cheney during CIA leak investigationA federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its notes from an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into ...
US attorney ousted with 8 others in 2006 says he's glad to return to Nevada jobDaniel Bogden never really got a good answer why President George W. Bush fired him from his post as U.S. attorney for Nevada in 2006. President Obama ...

Obama won't change terror detention system: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new detention system to hold foreign terrorism suspects, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.The administration will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution to continue to detain ...

U.S. adopts new policy for state secrets claims

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it will adopt a new policy that could limit the government's claims of state secrets to block lawsuits on national security grounds, a Bush-era tactic kept by the Obama administration in some ...

US moves for fewer state secrets

President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday made it more difficult for the government to suppress information on security grounds, amid allegations the power was used to cover up Bush-era excess.Attorney General Eric Holder announced that from today he would personally review claims ...