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US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that, despite landmark court decisions and legislation bolstering the official recognition of racial equality, the US remains a country that has not truly resolved its racial divide. Holder,...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that President Barack Obama should follow up his executive order banning torture and inhumane interrogation by fulfilling treaty-based and customary international legal obligations to either initiate prosecution...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Ashcroft v. Iqbal , the Court heard arguments on whether high-ranking US officials are protected...

Eric Holder , Deputy US Attorney General during the Clinton administration, has been asked and has agreed to serve as US Attorney General for the incoming administration of now President-elect Barack Obama, according to media reports...

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before the law,"...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that instituting a special "national security court" to try terrorism and related cases outside of the regular federal court structure would perpetuate illegality and serve neither our...

Kristen Clarke : "Polling places should be intimidation-free spaces in which all voters are able to freely cast their ballot without interference or obstruction. Both federal law and a number of state laws...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld as constitutional a former National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) program which required non-immigrant adult males from 25 predominantly Muslim nations...

Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft testified before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, defending advice the Department of Justice (DOJ) gave the Bush administration on the legality of certain interrogation...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a libel case brought against the New York Times by former US Army biodefense research scientist Dr. Stephen...