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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), ranking member of the committee, have sent a letter to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking him again...

President Bush said Monday that he still fully supports US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales despite the growing number of Republicans who have expressed concern over the firings of nine federal prosecutors , telling reporters...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he believed a "sizable number" of Republican members of Congress would join Democrats in a vote of no-confidence in...

The White House reiterated President Bush's "full confidence" in embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at Friday morning's press gaggle . White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that the administration considers next week's proposed Senate vote of...

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted Thursday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will resign from his post at the conclusion of current investigations into the allegedly-political firings...

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday, a day after hearing testimony from former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey regarding an attempt by...

Former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that in March 2004, in response to Comey's reservations about reauthorizing the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program , then-White House...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sharply questioned federal officials Wednesday during oral arguments in the case of a Pakistani man who says he was detained because of his race,...

US District Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho on Wednesday ruled that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft does not have absolute immunity from a lawsuit alleging that the government wrongfully arrested plaintiff...

Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft , who resigned from the post in November 2004, told an audience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Tuesday that President Bush has done less harm to civil liberties than...