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Ex-Alaska Governor's top aide to plead guilty to fraud
Legal News Feed 03/04/2008A top aide to former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski admitted on Monday to fraud as part of a wide-ranging corruption conspiracy that has ensnared several state politicians and implicated many of Alaska's top political figures.Jim Clark, who was the form...
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McCain Says Report on Lobbyist Not True
Legal News Feed 02/21/2008John McCain emphatically denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications lobbyist on Thursday and said a report by The New York Times suggesting favoritism for her clients is "not true.""I'm very disappointed in the article. It's not ...
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Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
Legal News Feed 02/19/2008The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.The justices' decision Tuesday includes no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.The ACLU wanted the ...
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Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger
Legal News Feed 02/16/2008With a government eavesdropping law about to expire, Washington is awash in accusations over who's to blame. President Bush said Friday that "our country is in more danger of an attack" because of Congress' failure to adopt a Senate bill that would h...
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Paulson, Bernanke: No recession in '08
Legal News Feed 02/14/2008Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson both acknowledged problems in the U.S. economy Thursday, but both said they believe the nation will avoid falling into recession.However, the two added at a hearing before the ...
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Lawmakers Fault FEMA on Trailers
Legal News Feed 01/29/2008Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency manipulated scientific research into the potential danger posed by a toxic gas emitted in trailers still housing tens of thousands of su...
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Ex-Ill. Gov Appeals to US Supreme Court
Legal News Feed 01/24/2008Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse his racketeering and fraud conviction, claiming he did not receive a fair trial.Ryan's lawyers said in a petition to the court that the trial judge replaced two jur...
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Elections don't do justice to state's Circuit Court judges
Legal News Feed 01/13/2008The great Federalists from Virginia and New York, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, didn't agree with the anti-Federalist views of Maryland's Jeremiah Chase on the organization of American government. However they all saw eye-to-eye on one matter...
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Ga. Court Examines Banishment Policy
Legal News Feed 01/08/2008An unusual question is before the Georgia Supreme Court: Should banishment of criminals be banned?Though Georgia's judges are technically outlawed from banishing offenders, some have skirted the rule by restricting them from all but one of the state'...
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Supreme Court Justice Bill Clinton?
Legal News Feed 01/03/2008It is a title that would be sure to bring either fear or cheer to many Americans, depending on your political leanings: Supreme Court Justice Bill Clinton.That provocative possibility has long been whispered in legal and political circles ever since ...
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Court Bars Detainee Transfer to Algeria
Legal News Feed 01/01/2008A federal appeals court Monday blocked the Bush administration from transferring a detainee at Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, where the prisoner says his life would be in danger from the government and al-Qaida.The appeals court is stopping any transfer ...
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DOJ: No comment on forcing encryption passphrases
Legal News Feed 12/19/2007[##_1L|1158682406.jpg|width="150" height="153" alt=""|_##]The U.S. Department of Justice won't say when it believes an American citizen should be forced to divulge his or her PGP passphrase. We've been trying for the last two days to get the DOJ to a...