By Dan Froomkin, washingtonpost.com Yesterday brought considerably more evidence of direct White House involvement in the overt politicization of the Justice Department — not only in terms of purging U.S. attorneys who may have been considered insufficiently partisan in their pursuit of criminal cases, but also in terms of filling career positions with attorneys who…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t A Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers’ access to the nearly 400 detainees at Guantanamo Bay is drawing sharp criticism from much of the legal community in the US. In a court filing, the DOJ claimed that the lawyers’ use of mail to communicate…
by Mikael Rudolph, ImpeachforPeace.org A sign over twelve feet long reading “END THE WAR NOW: IMPEACH” was attached to a walking bridge facing Minneapolis-bound commuters on I-94 East just before University of Minnesota/Huron Boulevard Exit #235B around dawn this morning and remained in place for a good portion of the early morning rush hour traffic…
