WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey has gone back to work after a night in the hospital and a series of tests after collapsing at a Wa...
David Fiderer | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The woman they called Flipper expressed romantic yearnings about the man named Keith. That was too delicious a morsel not to be shared by email among staffers in the U.S. Attorney's office in Alabama.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | Marisa Taylor | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey has taken personal trips on government jets almost every weekend since he took office less than a year ...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics
As a lifelong Democrat who has seen my party lose winnable races, I can't help thinking about how things can go wrong this year. These are the four factors that keep me up at night.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for testimony and documents about the Justice Department's ...
Rebecca Abrahams | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
There is one person yet to be interviewed who may hold the keys to the missing emails in the US Attorney firings -- Bush IT expert Mike Connell.
William Fisher | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
No, this isn't about the economic meltdown - but it's almost as complicated. Try to follow it along. In what some government critics are citing as an...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
So, Palin broke the law, so what? It's not as if she's setting a precedent. George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney abuse power, too, and that's not breaking news on CNN, or at the dinner table.
John Rember | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
How to explain an administration that nationalizes the banking system even as it praises the free market? How to explain a financial system that turned debt into wealth, and wealth into debt? How is it that most people don't even know which country their house belongs to?
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and MARK SHERMAN | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey named a prosecutor Monday to investigate whether former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, other B...
William Fisher | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
A woman who was denied asylum in the U.S. despite her fears that she would suffer additional female genital mutilation if she was deported to her nati...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
The House Judiciary Committee, headed by Michigan Congressman John Conyers, will be investigating the alleged "caging" scheme, which reports indicate was targeted for Michigan, Ohio and possibly other battleground states.
Brad Friedman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers', is calling on the John McCain campaign to "immediately halt Republican vote suppression efforts."
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home
Obama told Rick Warren he opposed the nomination of Justice Roberts because he also opposes the expansion of executive power, which Roberts support. That's no small thing, given that Bush's power apparatus will be in place long after he has left office.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of ...
Brad Friedman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Mike Connell and his firm are currently employed by the John McCain campaign, as well as the RNC and other Republican and so-called "faith-based" organizations, has been reportedly threatened by Rove.
Rep. Linda Sanchez | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
If Mr. Mukasey is truly interested in restoring credibility to the Department of Justice, he will enforce our subpoena for Karl Rove rather than obstruct it.
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Congress, not judges, should decide how to give Guantanamo Bay detainees their day in court, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
Karl Rove flees the country, Schwarzenegger calls Bush administration approach to global warming "bogus," Antarctic ice shelf on verge of collapse, U.S. terrorist watch list tops one million.
Charles Shaw | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
The policy of the "Unitary Executive" (which grants Bush unchecked power during national emergencies) was the "single most successfully implemented policy" of the Bush/Cheney administration.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
After the Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees are now entitled to habeas corpus, all the president's men are working overtime so they can stack the deck strongly in favor of winning convictions.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.21.2008 | Green
Today the President has asserted executive privilege to prevent the Committee from learning why he and his staff overruled EPA.
Kent Greenfield | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Att. Gen. Michael Mukasey came to Boston College Law School last Friday and offered a substantive, and deeply troubling, message to our graduates.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
It is fitting that our current Constitutional crisis finds Karl Rove as its centerpiece. No human being has done more damage to our republic in the last hundred years than Karl Rove.
Washington Post | Ben Pershing | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today accused the Bush administration of being overly obstinate on a range of controversial issues, expressing particular f...
It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a sorrier state...
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"As Sarah Palin settles back into her job as the state's chief executive, a new...
Dear Senator Lieberman, Congratulations! You got away with it! So despite...
Today, Al Qaeda's number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri,...
It is said that Barack Obama has read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals,...
Katie Couric discussed her infamous interview with Sarah Palin Wednesday night on...
CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message...
President-elect Obama is still adjusting to life with the Secret Service and the loss...
John McCain is returning Jackson Browne's August lawsuit complaining about McCain using his...
WASHINGTON — The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought...
President-elect Obama's plan to put a million electric vehicles on the road in 10 years...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics