An election official checks a voter’s photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas.
Texas’ new voter identification law fully absolves the state from having discriminated against minority voters in 2011, and courts should not take further action in a battle over the state’s old voter ID law, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice argued in a legal filing Wednesday.
David Green, the founder of Hobby Lobby, speaks before a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)
US federal prosecutors say Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and return ancient Iraqi artifacts which were smuggled from the Middle East after being intentionally mislabelled.
Rashid Alam, a 18-year-old Muslim pauses next to a photo taken following his attack, at a news conference Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at the Council on American-Islamic Relations offices in Anaheim, Calif. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)
Hate crimes spiked in four major American cities in the first months of 2017, with the percentage year-over-year change in one of them, Chicago, reaching a staggering 160 percent, according to the nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ appears to be turning away from the use of consent decrees, a tool traditionally used to enact civil rights reforms across federal agencies.
For decades, the Department of Justice has used court-enforced agreements to protect civil rights, successfully desegregating school systems, reforming police departments, ensuring access for the disabled and defending the religious.
(ANTIMEDIA) Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been vocal about his archaic opposition to cannabis.
Fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 21, 2010. (AP/US Coast Guard)
United States President Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has previously represented British Petroleum (BP), to a top environmental and natural resource law position in the Department of Justice, the White House announced earlier this week.
NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner, has been charged by the Justice Department for sending classified material to The Intercept. (Photo: Instagram)
A day after her arrest was announced publicly by the U.S. Justice Department, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old alleged source of a leaked National Security Agency document detailing Russian hacking efforts, has found a vocal ally in the world’s best known whistleblower of the contemporary era: Edward Snowden.
(COMMONDREAMS) A watchdog group on Monday stepped up its efforts to get the Trump administration to answer for its military strike on Syria in April.
Robert Mueller’s appointment as Special Counsel to supervise the Russiagate investigation has led to a state bordering on euphoria on the part of the Democrats and the mainstream media.
It is understandable why. The Democrats have been calling for the appointment of a Special Counsel and President Trump – very unwisely – has been resisting them. Though President Trump appeared in his statement yesterday to welcome the decision, in tweets today he has made clear his continued resentment about it
Seattle deputies carry rifles near the scene of a shooting in downtown Seattle, April 20, 2017. (AP/Elaine Thompson)
SEATTLE – The Ninth Circuit seemed skeptical of Seattle police officers’ claims that a new use-of-force policy mandated by the Department of Justice violates their Second Amendment rights.
U.S. Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith told the officers’ attorney he didn’t “have much of an argument” at a three-judge panel appellate hearing on Monday.
