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The revelation that President-elect Donald Trump does not intend to seek a new investigation into Hillary Clinton was startling not only because it seemed to reverse a campaign pledge. It also suggested that Trump thinks that that's his decision to make, reflecting an apparent lack of regard for the cherished independence of the Justice Department, which is responsible for conducting investigations without the influence or opinion of the White House.
On the same day Donald Trump was elected president, four states legalized marijuana for recreational use, while four others legalized or expanded access to medical marijuana. As a result of those ballot initiatives, most states now recognize marijuana as a medicine, and one in five Americans lives in a state that has decided to tolerate cannabis consumption without a doctor's note.
If confirmed as U.S. attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions can make major changes to the nation's immigration system by boosting prosecutions of low-level violations, hiring tough immigration judges and cutting law enforcement funds to cities that don't cooperate. While the Department of Homeland Security vets visas and enforces immigration laws, a handful of obscure offices in the Department of Justice hold vast sway over how immigration cases are heard in court and how quickly migrants can be deported.
The man behind a horrific crime that left a family dead inside their burning home learned his fate Monday. A Richmond judge decided Ricky Gray will be put to death in less than two months for his role in the 2006 New Year's Day quadruple murders of the Harvey family in Richmond.
Former Beaumont ISD contract electrician Calvin Walker wants the highest court in the nation to determine whether state prosecutors can try him on charges similar to the ones he fought in federal court in 2012.In a petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 10, Walker asks the eight justices to review the government-claimed exception to ... (more)
Amid all the media prattle about the white working class, the rejection of the status quo, and the great divide in the US, there remains one simple, but exceedingly dangerous, truth which none dare speak: the US election may have been stolen. Now, before temporal arteries start bulging with rage, allow me to make clear that this assertion is in no way an attempt to promote the criminal warmonger Hillary Clinton or make a case for her taking a seat in the Oval Office.
Demonstrators including students from local high schools as well as a college rally in front of Homestead City Hall against President-elect Donald Trump and are asking that the city be used as a sanctuary city and their respective schools be sanctuary campuses. Trump has said he will crack down on so-called "sanctuary cities" or cities that don't help federal authorities seize undocumented immigrants.
Marcia Clark, in an April 2011 file image, is the onetime O.J. Simpson prosecutor, and now-bestselling novelist, who has become a role model for career women. Two decades before presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton became the target of nonstop, unsolicited advice on how to win the White House - smile more, change that hairstyle, lose the pantsuit - the media were focused on Marcia Clark and all her missteps toward winning the trial of the century.
A Fayetteville native turned Air Force veteran is at the helm of a new Department of Justice program aimed at protecting the rights of troops and their families. The DOJ's Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Enforcement Support Pilot Program, launched earlier this month, will provide dedicated legal support to five military communities across the country.
A Washington state lawmaker wants to criminalize the protests that have sprung up around the country against the election of Donald Trump to the White House, while the two teens who launched some of the New York City demonstrations said th Wash.
In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, Brendan Dassey, left, listens to testimony at the Manitowoc County Courthouse in Manitowoc, Wis. Dassey, whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was ordered released Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, from federal prison while prosecutors appeal.
But Trump's enforcement approach is not only reasonable, it is very feasible, and will address the most disastrous failings of the Obama administration's faux-enforcement regime, which brought interior deportations to a ten-year low and caused the release of tens of thousands of criminal aliens back to our communities to Said Trump: "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."
With President-Elect Donald Trump expected to name a new U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the guessing game has begun for a replacement for Deirdre M. Daly, a Fairfield resident, according to the Connecticut Law Tribune. Daly was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2014.
Sharlaine LaClair, a Democrat and Lummi tribal member, ran for the Washington State House of Representatives in 2016. She lost to incumbent Luanne Van Werven, a Republican.
If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his plan to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants he claims have criminal records, Portland's policy is to cooperate. Although Maine's largest city historically has been welcoming to immigrants and has taken steps to protect them , it lacks the policies of so-called sanctuary cities.
Listen, we'll come right out and say it. There's an upside to all of the spoiled brat ProgNazis behaving like spoiled brat ProgNazis, and that is that no amount of paid for propaganda, law and order campaigns and thousands upon thousands of columns, posts and letters could ever prove our Imperial point as well as they do themselves.
A well-intentioned but overzealous state law barring registered sex offenders from using Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media - whether or not their crimes involved either children or the internet - is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Durham resident Lester Gerard Packingham appealed his 2012 conviction of maintaining a social media profile as a sex offender, arguing that the state law is unconstitutional.
A Darien man was convicted of defrauding banks and the USDA of more than $25 million on Wednesday, according to United States Attorney for Connecticut Deirdre M. Daly. Pablo Calderon, 61, along with Brett C. Lillemoe, 46, of Minneapolis, submitted fraudulent documents to two United States banks in connection with a USDA loan guarantee program by which the USDA provides credit guarantees, Daly said.
After 23 years of flouting constitutional rights, federal court orders, and common decency, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will no longer be an embarrassment to the U.S. criminal justice system. Retired Phoenix police officer Paul Penzone defeated the 84-year-old Arpaio 55-44 percent in the race for Maricopa County Sheriff on Tuesday night, dealing a shocking defeat to the longtime incumbent.
The FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation has created more turmoil for the bureau than any other matter in recent history, exposing internal tensions with the Justice Department and stirring concerns the famously apolitical organization unnecessarily injected itself into the campaign. The FBI for decades has prided itself on being both independent and silent about its work.