Attorney General Eric Holder threw out a Bush administration rule saying illegal immigrants don’t have a constitutional right to effective legal representation in deportation proceedings. The original order was issued in January by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey, according to a ...

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Recent embarrassments in certain federal cases have prompted the new attorney general to order retraining for prosecutors. I propose this as the first lesson: Don’t break the law. You would think that little reminder unnecessary. But the handling of the ...

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The Obama administration ruled out prosecution of government interrogators as it released censored versions of legal memos that guided harsh questioning of terror suspects by the CIA under President George W. Bush. The memos show that Justice Department lawyers authorized ...

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After the scandal with the prosecution of the Duke lacrosse players, you might think nothing would surprise you in a high-profile case. So I was shocked when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder concluded prosecutors had acted so egregiously in the ...

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, days after dropping a political corruption case that helped drive Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens from office, said he expects prosecutors to put fairness ahead of winning and hinted at a further Justice Department shake-up.  “Their ...

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 Attorney General Eric Holder replaced the head of the Justice Department’s professional ethics office after a U.S. judge blasted the department for “shocking” conduct in prosecuting former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. H. Marshall Jarrett, who has led the department’s Office ...

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A U.S. judge set aside the political corruption verdict that probably cost ex-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens re-election and ordered an investigation into whether prosecutors' "shocking" conduct was criminal. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said he had a duty to determine the "potential for obstruction of justice" by six federal prosecutors. The Justice Department abandoned the case after Attorney General Eric Holder discovered the prosecutors had withheld evidence that would have helped Stevens contest the charges he omitted $250,000 worth of gifts on his financial disclosure reports.

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The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to set aside the political corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, saying that prosecutors withheld information from defense lawyers during the trial. The government’s decision to file federal court papers ...

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Attorney General Eric Holder directed executive-branch agencies not to withhold public records simply because they may do so legally, reversing a Bush administration policy. In a memo to government agencies Thursday, Holder encouraged agencies to “make discretionary disclosures of information,” ...

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The U.S. Senate began filling the Justice Department’s leadership ranks, confirming David Ogden to be deputy attorney general and Thomas Perrelli’s nomination for the agency’s No. 3 post. The confirmations of Ogden and Perrelli will provide reinforcements for Attorney General ...

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As hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers sign up for unemployment each month and major employers head for bankruptcy court, many Americans would find it oh-so-nice to land a job guaranteed for life. The United States has no kings or ...

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