Texas group sues Chertoff to block border fence construction
The Texas Border Coalition , a group of Texan officials and business owners, filed a class action lawsuit Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to enjoin the Department of...
Ahilan Arulanantham : "I need to start with two caveats. First, I am no expert in either international or comparative law, and I know almost nothing about the law of Belgium or France. Second, in...
Texas Border Coalition v. Chertoff, US District Court for the District of Columbia, May 16, 2008 . Read the full...
Chertoff says DHS moving ahead with domestic spy satellite program
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that DHS will move forward with plans to use spy satellites as part of a domestic intelligence program designed to assist law enforcement agencies. In his...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says that the recently-released 2003 DOJ memo on military interrogations written by then deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo was no...
Louisiana court rules state government immune in Katrina 'wrongful death' suit
The Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a wrongful death suit brought by Herbert Freeman, Jr. against the state of Louisiana, the city of New Orleans and public officials. Freeman's 91-year-old wheelchair-bound...
Top Bush administration officials speak out against media shield bill
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined forces Thursday to speak out against the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 in...
DHS invoking legal waivers to finish US-Mexico border fence: report
The Bush administration plans to invoke legal waivers to push through completion of 267 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border by the end of this year, federal officials said Tuesday according to AP....
Supreme Court hears arguments in California labor, paralegal fees cases
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Chamber of Commerce v. Brown , 06-939, a case where the Court is reviewing the constitutionality of a 2000...
US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff sent letters to the governors of several states on Monday, urging them to comply with an upcoming deadline to adopt comprehensive driver's license standards to bring their state IDs in...
