Sep 26 Backlog of children’s immigration cases challenges judges, lawyers and schools By April Brown The backlog of immigration cases means thousands of children who’ve crossed alone illegally wait months or even years for their cases to be adjudicated. And that means many are in the United States long enough to enroll in school. Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Understanding Eric Holder’s legacy for the Justice Department By PBS News Hour After six years as head of the Department of Justice, Eric Holder, the nation’s first African-American attorney general, will be stepping down. Holder has focused on major civil liberties issues, but has also been a lightning rod for partisan criticism. Continue watching
Sep 22 Rudy Giuliani defends Call of Duty publisher in Manuel Noriega lawsuit By Anthony McCartney, Associated Press Activision Blizzard Inc. announced Monday that Giuliani and his firm will ask a Los Angeles judge to dismiss Noriega's lawsuit, which claims his likeness was used without permission in the 2012 game, part of its popular "Call of Duty" video… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 8:13 Justice Department aims to rebuild trust in police with community engagement initiative By PBS News Hour In the wake of the death of an unarmed black teenager at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, the Justice Department is launching a $5 million initiative to foster better relationships between communities and their police departments. Gwen Ifill… Continue watching
Sep 12 Holder says immigrant kids should get lawyers, but his department disagrees By Erica Werner, Associated Press The contradiction emerges between what the administration argues the children are constitutionally entitled to, and what Holder says he supports as a policy. On Friday he discussed a new $1.8 million program to help legal aid organizations represent migrant children… Continue reading
Sep 12 One simple legal fix could help fight overseas credit card fraud, claims DOJ By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Though prosecutors do have existing tools and have brought international cybertheft cases in the past year, the Justice Department says a new law is needed at a time when criminals operating largely in Eastern Europe are able to gobble up… Continue reading
Sep 11 Pistorius can’t be convicted of murder, judge says in South African trial By News Desk The judge in the trial of double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius said Thursday that he couldn’t receive a murder conviction in the shooting death of his girlfriend. Continue reading
Sep 04 Watch Ex-Gov. McDonnell found guilty of corruption and fraud in Virginia By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 27 Immigration judges’ union seeks independent court system By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press The federal immigration court system should be separated from the Justice Department and operated independently of federal law enforcement, the top two leaders of the immigration judges' union said Wednesday. Continue reading
Aug 22 Lawsuits challenge FAA ban on commercial drone flights By Joan Lowy, Associated Press The FAA has been working on regulations that would permit commercial drone flights in U.S. skies for more than 10 years, but the agency is still at least months and possibly years away from issuing final rules to permit flights… Continue reading