Coming to America (to Be Tried for Terrorism)

Staff / Truthdig Nov 13, 2009 Upsetting many Republicans and some family members of victims, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters will be tried in federal court in New York City, not far from Ground Zero, and that death penalties are likely to be sought. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tortured Law

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2009 A new short film by the group Alliance for Justice examines the role that lawyers played in authorizing and legitimizing torture under the Bush administration. It calls on the attorney general to investigate not just CIA operatives but the authors of torture memos in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Legal Troubles Might Lie in Wait for Ashcroft

Staff / Truthdig Sep 5, 2009 Did then-Attorney General John Ashcroft violate the Constitution in his handling of certain national security investigations shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks? According to the Los Angeles Times, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reason to believe that he did, and thus Ashcroft can be sued for prosecutorial abuses even this long after the fact, the paper reported Saturday.Did then-Attorney General John Ashcroft violate the Constitution in his handling of certain national security investigations shortly after 9/11? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mass. AG Throws In for Kennedy’s Senate Seat

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2009 And they're off or at least, she's off: On Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley became the first contender for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat to officially announce her candidacy, which she's reportedly been considering for the past year, but she'll face some fierce competition for the vaunted position in coming months. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AG to Appoint Torture Prosecutor

Staff / Truthdig Aug 24, 2009 Although President Obama and others who were privy to information about alleged prisoner abuse by CIA employees and contractors previously passed on the possibility of prosecution, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has taken a different tack after reviewing the cases. Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gonzales’ New Gig

Staff / Truthdig Jul 8, 2009 Seems like even those Bushies who didn't manage to make it to the end of the W. age with their political reputations intact are popping up with brand new jobs; take, for example, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who's slated to teach a political science course at Texas Tech University this fall. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

High Court Lets Ashcroft, Mueller Off the Hook

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2009 The nation's top court decided on Monday that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI honcho Robert Mueller aren't directly accountable for the abuses that Pakistani detainee Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, says he endured as a result of his race and religion in a New York prison in 2002. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Welcome Back, Spitzer

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2009 So, Matt Lauer busted right out of the gates with the sex-scandal questions in his interview with Eliot Spitzer on Monday's "Today" show, taking far too much time to extract mea culpas from the fallen former New York governor before getting to the better part of the program, during which Spitzer holds forth about the economy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Holder on Board as New Attorney General

Staff / Truthdig Feb 3, 2009 On Monday, the U.S. Senate gave the nod to Eric Holder, President Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, making Holder the first African-American put in charge of the Justice Department. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New York’s A.G. Subpoenas Bank Execs Over Bonuses

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2009 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent out subpoenas to Bank of America's Chief Administrative Officer J. Steele Alphin and recently ousted Merrill Lynch Chief Executive John Thain on Tuesday to look into hefty bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch higher-ups late last year -- even as the company was bleeding billions in losses. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Holder States the Obvious

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2009 Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. has announced a groundbreaking hypothesis on waterboarding: It's torture. The position, which contradicts piles of Bush-era law literature defending the practice, is just one step in an avowed process to fix many of the problems riddling current Justice Department policy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Court Is Asked to Strip Blagojevich of Power

Staff / Truthdig Dec 13, 2008 What's it going to take to oust scandal-ridden Rod Blagojevich from his position as Illinois' governor? Impeachment? A forklift? State Attorney General Lisa Madigan doesn't want to waste any more time and is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to help by finding Blagojevich unfit to serve. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )