U.S. Department of Justice

Will the Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit Lead to a Federal Monitor for the NYPD?

Maybe the parts of the Community Safety Act that debuted on the council floor yesterday won't even be necessary. In an exclusive report by the Daily News last night, it's been discovered that Attorney General Eric Holder and his Justice Department are thinking about asking the trial judge on Floyd v ... More >>

Reefer Roundup: Feds Arrest Six, Target Medical Marijuana Clinics' Bank Accounts

The Voice reported yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice, backed by Barack Obama's administration, has started to crackdown on landlords who lease space to medical marijuana dispensaries -- and is threatening them with eviction. Now, news reports out of California indicate that federal auth ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Feds Threaten Pot Shop Landlords

Right as New York's Assembly voted to greenlight prescription pot, federal authorities continue to put pressure on states with legal medical weed -- targeting dispensaries and now, landlords who lease space to marijuana shops.

Obama Clemency Problem Sparks Calls for Investigation of Justice Department Pardon Attorney

Pressure is building on the Obama administration to investigate misconduct in the Justice Department's clemency/pardon process. Back in September, the Voice profiled several elderly prisoners, including 93-year-old Drayton Curry (at right), whose clemency requests for early release from federal pri ... More >>

Schools Ignore Gay Bullying at Their Own Peril

An Education in Abuse

Medical Marijuana Comes to Connecticut

For our Northeastern neighbor, it's a shame 4/20 was two weeks ago. This morning, after 10 hours of debate, the Connecticut Senate voted 21 to 13 on a bill that will legalize marijuana for medical usage. After already being cleared in the House, the "green" legislation heads to the desk of Gove ... More >>

Lost Boys

New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker—and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

Begging Your Pardon, President Obama!

White House turns back on clemency, including reduced sentences

Legality of Anwar al-Awlaki Killing; Rain Delay for Yankees; Dow Jones Slumps

via Washington Post​Justice Department officials have released a statement establishing the legality of the drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda leader who was born in New Mexico, was killed in Yemen yesterday in an authorized drone strike. Some questioned the legal ... More >>

Barack Obama Tries to Reinstate Don't Ask, Don't Tell Yet Again Before Ending It

​Although the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the United States government to immediately halt Don't Ask, Don't Tell, military recruiters across the nation seem to be dragging their feet, and Obama's Justice Department has asked the court for a stay on their order "by the close of busin ... More >>

Feds: Trial of 9/11's Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in NYC 'Not Off the Table,' But His Execution Is a Done Deal

Backtracking on the White House's backpedaling, a top Justice Department official now says that the government hasn't dismissed its original plan to try 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City. But no matter where he's tried, we're going to execute him, says President Barack Obama's ch ... More >>

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

Obama DOJ Goes Easy on Medical Marijuana

The Department of Justice will not go after medical marijuana users and suppliers who are following state laws which allow them to operate, according to new DOJ guidelines examined by the Washington Post. This would seem to reverse the policy of the previous Administration, which continued to send D ... More >>

State Settles on Special Election -- Overseas Votes Get 6 More Days

In response to U.S. Department of Justice action, the state board of elections has agreed to count absentee ballots that come in through April 13. They were going to stop on April 7, but then DOJ began questioning the length of time New York had given offshore voters (including those serving in the ... More >>

Justice Denies: Feds won't stop Bloomie's term limits coup

Yesterday afternoon, the Justice Department shot down one of the last legal challenges to Mayor Mike Bloomberg's controversial term limits extension. In a fifty-page appeal, lawmakers and civil rights groups had asked the federal government last month to consider the term limits extension a violatio ... More >>

U.S. Attorney General "Has No Objection" to Term Limits Overturn

More bad news for Bloomberg-stoppers: the Justice Department has issued a letter to the city's corporation counsel, saying AG Eric Holder has no objection to the city council's overturn of term limits. The review was necessitated by the Voting Rights Act. The letter, signed by Justice's voting secti ... More >>

Immigrants To Lose DNA, Right to Adequate Counsel

Beginning today, the U.S. government will collect DNA samples from people arrested and detained for suspected immigration violations, the Los Angeles Times reports. Expectedly, the usual suspects are battling it out: An ACLU tech expert is concerned that "people who are merely accused of a crime or ... More >>

Clip Job: Henry Miller, Free at Last!

Janet Napolitano = Homeland Futility

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

Press 1 for English, Pendejo

And boycott Absolut for caving like craven Swedes!

"Evil" Woman: The Demonization of Inez Haller

Trail of Torture Tapes

What did Bush know and when did he know it? Will the next president pardon him?

Tally Ho!: The GOP's Hounding of Voters

A Different Kind of U.S. Attorney Scandal

Or, how to stay in the good graces of Karl Rove

Justice Department's Black Site

The administration censors internal probe of lawbreaking by the Oval Office and the NSA

Feds Sue New York Over Voting

Voice-New Times Wedding Is On

Justice Department gives the green light to alt-weekly merger

While You Were Watching Katrina

House Republicans derail probes of Plame affair

Morning Report 4/19/05
Bolton: Reagan's Personal Stonewall Hero

The Eve of Destruction

George Bush is getting four more years to remake the world in his image. (Too bad for us, he already started.)

Kiss Your Rights Goodbye

From John Ashcroft's lips to God's ear

What Did Bush Know?

The inside story of the official manual on how to torture without being prosecuted

Torture Trail

Bush's lawyers conclude the torture of prisoners is justified in war on terrorism

Ashcroft Terrorizes New York Doctors

Attorney General Demands Patients' Private Abortion Records

Exposé Energizes Court Battle

Ashcroft Could Face Reckoning on Detainee Mistreatment

The Once and Former Rule of Law

Could Ashcroft Pass a Quiz on the Constitution?

Justice Denied at the Source

Considered Guilty Until Proved Innocent

Red Alert for Bill of Rights!

Justice Department vs. Democracy

Ashcroft Out of Control

Ominous Sequel to USA Patriot Act

The Force Multipliers

NYPD to Bring Nationwide Spying Effort Home

Immigrant Roundup

From Brooklyn to L.A., Muslim Detainees Protest Mass Arrests

The Death of Operation TIPS

Volunteer Spying Corps Dismissed

Open-and-Shut Cases

While Detainees Languish the Feds Subvert Their Own Secrecy Arguments

The Name Game

In Battle Over 9-11 Detentions, Feds May Be Hiding More Than Identities

Ashcroft’s Master Plan to Spy on Us

'Citizens Will Not Become Informants'

Justice Department Goes After Abortion Rights

Does Ashcroft 'Obey the Rule of Law'?

'Let Us Not Be Suckers for Anybody'

Why People of All Colors Should (Still) Resist Racial Profiling

The Homegrown Anthrax Blitz

Pro-Choice Groups Seek Protection From Domestic Terrorists

Equal Right to Fear

In Public Outrage and Official Hunt, Some Face Special Terrors

Foiling FOIA

Will the Justice Department Limit Public Access to Information?