Showing posts with label Justice Department. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justice Department. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

"Off the Record" Is Not Retroactive

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   Anna Bower at Lawfare  reports a text exchange with prosecutor Lindsay Halligan: Through the whole of our correspondence, however, there ...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Autopen Pardons

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Previous   posts  have  discussed  the  president's   pardon   power .  Alex Thompson at Axios: High-ranking Biden administration offic...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ethics and Oaths

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Many   posts  have  discussed   oaths of office . AG Bondi fired Joseph W. Tirrell. He posted his response on LinkedIn: Until Friday evening...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

"There's a Flip Side to That Coin."

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  A number of posts have discussed "Miles' Law," that is, where you stand depends on where you sit .  Attitudes toward proce...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Fentanyl Madness

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Many   posts  have  discussed   myths  and  misinformation .  Some whoppers involve drugs . Lev Facher at STAT : In recent months, federal p...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Going After Journalists

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Many   posts  have  discussed   freedom of the press .   Attorney General Pam Bondi has revoked former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s po...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

A Strong Letter

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Many   posts  have  discussed   prosecutors .  From WP:Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case, has...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

No Undercover FBI Employees in the 1/6 Mob

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Many   post s have  discussed  the  insurrection  of  January 6, 2021 .  From the DOJ IG : Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Mi...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Crime in 2024 So Far

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Many   posts  have  discussed   crime  in the  United States . Corky Siemaszko and Tom Costello at NBC : The latest FBI statistics point to ...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Authoritarian Playbook

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  United to Protect Democracy,  The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025:  Trump’s campaign promises are extensive, as are the plans of groups wo...
Friday, December 31, 2021

The Threat of Domestic Terrorism

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  Josh Meyer and Kevin Johnson at USA Today : Washington failed to create a national strategy to counter right-wing extremism until the dea...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The Federalist Papers and a Court Case

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson explaining why former White House counsel Don McGahn has to testify before Congress: DOJ’s arguments to the c...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Justice and Constitutional Design

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At The Hill , Stuart M. Gerson  former Acting Attorney General; Peter D. Keisler former Acting Attorney General; and Carrie Cordero former C...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The Federal Prosecutor

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Attorney General Robert Jackson, December 1, 1940: But outside of federal law each locality has the right under our system of government t...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Rosenstein on Justice

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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Bar Association of Montgomery County’s Law Day CelebrationRockville, MD ~ ...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Presidents and Attorneys General

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From the Comey memos: At about this point, he asked me to compare AG Holder and AG Lynch . I said I thought AG Holder was smarter and mo...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Best Words

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Juliet Eilperin and Lena H. Sun at The Washington Post : The Trump administration is waging a linguistic battle across official Washi...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Sally Yates v. Trump

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Before Trump fired her for refusing to defend his Muslim ban , Acting Attorney General Sally Yates explained: On January 27, 2017, the ...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Reagan and the Law

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At Bloomberg, Cass Sunstein  recalls his time as a young lawyer in the Justice Department.  The Reaganites, he said, came in and did two sma...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

How Many Crimes?

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George Will writes: In 2009, Harvey Silverglate’s book “ Three Felonies a Day ” demonstrated how almost any American could be unwittingly...