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Federal judges urged simplification of sentencing guidelines [this day at law]
July 9, 2012 by Garrett Eisenhour
On July 9, 2009, a group of federal judges urged the US Sentencing Commission (USSC) to revise the calculations used to determine federal criminal sentences, calling them complicated and mechanical. A few months earlier, US Attorney General Eric Holder had called for a review of disparities.... [more]
Supreme Court justice rejected stay of deportation for accused Nazi guard [this day at law]
May 7, 2012 by Garrett Eisenhour
On May 7, 2009, the US Supreme Court denied an application for a stay of deportation filed by accused concentration camp prison guard John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk was facing deportation to Germany where he had been charged with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his alleged actions at the.... [more]
DOJ to investigate 2 overseas detainee deaths
June 30, 2011 by Maureen Cosgrove
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that he would continue investigating the deaths of two detainees who died during interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Former attorney general Michael Mukasey had appointed Assistant United States Attorney John Durham in 2008.... [more]
Mukasey rejected criminal waterboarding investigation [this day at law]
February 7, 2011 by Dwyer Arce
On February 7, 2008, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey rejected calls to launch a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the CIA's admitted use of waterboarding on three terror detainees. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Mukasey said that because the CIA had relied on a DOJ.... [more]
US AG ruled deportation cannot be challenged for ineffective legal assistance [this day at law]
January 7, 2011 by Dwyer Arce
On January 7, 2009, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey ruled that aliens may no longer challenge deportation hearings based on ineffective assistance of counsel. Mukasey's opinion, which is binding on immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), held that immigrants have no.... [more]
Holder defends 9/11 federal trials decision before Senate committee
November 18, 2009 by Dwyer Arce
US Attorney General Eric Holder appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions regarding the decision to try five men accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks in federal court. In his opening remarks, Holder refuted the arguments made by his.... [more]
DOJ to open investigation into CIA prisoner abuse reports
August 24, 2009 by Matt Glenn
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will open a preliminary review into allegations of prisoner abuse by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogators during the Bush administration. Holder's decision follows a recommendation by the....... [more]
US AG Holder reverses order denying deportees ineffective counsel claim
June 4, 2009 by Devin Montgomery
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday vacated an order by former attorney general Michael Mukasey that had denied those facing deportation the right to challenge immigration decisions based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. Mukasey's order had held that the Fifth Amendment righ....... [more]
Ineffective counsel appeal in deportation cases order [US AG] [document]
June 3, 2009 by Ingrid Burke
Matter of Enrique Salas Compean, US Attorney General Eric Holder, June 3, 2009. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Holder order....... [more]
Lawyers who authored interrogation memos should be disbarred: coalition
May 18, 2009 by Andrew Morgan
A coalition of progressive organizations Monday filed disciplinary complaints with five state bar associations seeking the disbarment of 12 former US government officials associated with the legal rationales behind the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Complaints f....... [more]
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