New administration seeks resignations of 46 US attorneys

In this March 6, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions waits to make a statement at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Washington. Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 United States attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the Justice Department said Friday, March 10, 2017.

US Attorney Stephanie A. Finley retiring after 25 years of service

Stephanie A. Finley, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, announced today that she is retiring after 25 years of federal service. Finley began her public service in the military in 1988 after she was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, competing nationally and being designated as a Distinguished Graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Trini activist fights deportation

A TRINI who helps keep undocumented immigrants in New York from being thrown out of the US, has himself escaped deportation by American authorities - at least for now - after he made a mandatory appearance before a United States immigration court yesterday. Immigrant activist Ravi Ragbir, who emigrated from Trinidad to the US in 1991 had the support of a crowd of demonstrators as he headed to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City office yesterday ahead of a mandatory annual check-in - a meeting which he and his followers feared would result in his deportation to his native land given the new aggressive immigration policies of the Trump administration.

Former ICE officer convicted of accepting bribes

Former ICE officer convicted of accepting bribes Somerset man convicted of accepting cash bribes and sex in exchange for providing employment authorization documents Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/2mrhg3L A man from the Somerset section of Franklin has been convicted of accepting cash bribes and sex to prevent illegal immigrants from being deported. A 39-year-old former deportation officer from the Somerset section of Franklin has been convicted of accepting cash bribes and sex in exchange for providing employment documents and hiding his hiring of an undocumented immigrant at a West Orange hair salon he owned.

Attorney general says he favors bringing new detainees to Guantanamo

U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said he is in favor of bringing new enemy combatants to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reversing eight years of Obama administration policy aimed at shrinking the population at the military detention facility in the hopes of eventually closing it .

House committee requests copies of any Trump eavesdropping orders

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes speaks to the media about President Donald Trump's allegation that his campaign was the target of wiretaps on Capitol Hill in Washington March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein A U.S. House of Representatives panel has asked the Justice Department for copies of documents which if they exist could shed light on President Donald Trump's allegation that the Obama administration wiretapped his election campaign.

New Orleans judge allows Nicaraguan man facing deportation to withdraw guilty plea

A Nicaraguan national with legal immigration status can withdraw a guilty plea that he didn't realize would trigger his automatic deportation, New Orleans Judge Franz Zibilich ruled Thursday . . Criminal District Court Judge Franz Zibilich said that "justice and fair play" compelled him to allow Santos Garcia to withdraw his guilty plea, entered Nov. 4 to a charge of second-degree battery against a 27-year-old female bartender.

There is no principled reason to vote against Gorsuch

David C. Frederick is a lawyer at the firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick who specializes in Supreme Court and appellate practice. As a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates and progressive causes, I understand the anger at the Republicans' mistreatment of Judge Merrick Garland after he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama.

Criminal illegal aliens must be dealt with

In November 2016, President-elect Donald Trump said this to CBS' "60 Minutes": "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country, or we are going to incarcerate." Everyone, especially liberals and feminists, should be grateful he's acting on that promise.

Excerpts from opinions written by Judge Neil Gorsuch

Excerpts from opinions written by Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver: Addressing a long-running boundary dispute involving the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservations in Utah, August 2016:. "We're beginning to think we have an inkling of Sisyphus's fate.

The Latest: Texas executes man in murder-for-hire scheme

A paid hit man has been executed in Texas for the contract killing of a San Antonio woman in a life insurance scheme nearly a quarter-century ago. Rolando Ruiz was convicted of accepting $2,000 to fatally shoot 29-year-old Theresa Rodriguez outside her home in 1992 as she was getting out of a car with her husband and brother-in-law, who both orchestrated her murder.

Fact check: Donald Trump’s claims off base on Guantanamo

Donald Trump targeted the wrong president when he criticised the Obama administration for releasing "122 vicious prisoners" from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre who later resumed militant activities. The latest report from the office of the Director of National Intelligence shows that 122 men who were held at the US base in Cuba are confirmed to have re-engaged in hostilities after they were released.

Did Donald Trump invent claim that Barack Obama tapped his phone?

It is well established that U.S. intelligence agencies have been investigating the connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Trump's associates and the Russian government. But in a series of early morning tweets March 4, Trump claimed that President Barack Obama ordered telephone surveillance on him during the election.

Trump’s Bizarre Tweets Muddy The Waters Over The Potential Abuse of Government Power

The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.

With tweetstorm, Trump may have exercised exclusive declassification authority

In tweeting accusations that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of his campaign, President Donald Trump potentially made public the existence of Top Secret wiretaps a move that would be a federal crime, if performed by anyone other than the commander-in-chief. Trump's stunning allegation came in an early morning tweetstorm, in which he wrote in part: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory."