Legal Issues

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) says that execution would be an appropriate punishment for Private Bradley Manning in the wake of charges that he helped leak classified military documents to the whistleblower w...

With so many different legal battles and the passing of major legislation in regards to unemployment benefits, financial reform, Afghan war,etc...  Last week another major law passed under the radar, with litt...

A federal judge on Friday, prescription weighing in a clash between the federal government and a state over immigration policy, blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law...

Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two fr...

Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a militia in the Arizona desert. Jason "J.T." Ready is taking matters...

Election watchdogs have fined Joe Biden's 2008 presidential campaign more than $219,000 for sloppy bookkeeping and accepting excessive contributions, including a discounted flight on a private jet. The audit by...

Geto Boys rapper Bushwick Bill was in Atlanta Immigration Court yesterday (July 16th) where he is facing deportation to his native homeland of Jamaica. Rumors about Bushwick Bill’s status as a citizen in th...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will propose a resolution this week condemning racism within the tea party movement.The resolution, scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday by ...

Already facing several charges from the International Criminal Court including charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir is now facing charged with three counts of Geno...

A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform in a 2009 encounter that set off days of rioting i...